Attic Thoughts
Studio album by
Bo Hansson
ReleasedApril 1975
Recorded1974–1975
StudioBo Hansson's home and Studio Decibel, Stockholm
GenreProgressive rock
Length37:07
LabelCharisma
ProducerAnders Lind, Bo Hansson
Bo Hansson chronology
Magician's Hat
(1972)		 Attic Thoughts
(1975)		 Music Inspired by Watership Down
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Attic Thoughts is a 1975 instrumental progressive rock album by Swedish musician Bo Hansson.[2]

Recording and release

The album was recorded during 1974 and 1975 at Studio Decibel in Stockholm, and at Hansson's home, which had virtually become a studio by this point in his career.[3][4] The album featured contributions from many of the same session musicians and friends that had played on Hansson's previous album, Magician's Hat.[4] In addition to featuring Hansson's usual blend of other-worldly progressive rock and fairy tale-like ambiance, Attic Thoughts includes a suite named "Rabbit Music", which was inspired by Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, a subject which Hansson would explore further on his 1977 album Music Inspired by Watership Down.[5]

In Hansson's native Sweden, Attic Thoughts was released with the Swedish title of Mellanväsen.[6] It was released with its English title in April 1975 by Charisma Records,[2][7] but was less commercially successful than Hansson's preceding solo albums and failed to reach the charts in the UK or the United States.[5][8][9]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Bo Hansson except where indicated.

Side 1

  1. "Attic Thoughts: a) March b) Repose c) Wandering" – 5:33
  2. "Time and Space" – 1:39
  3. "Waiting..." (Bo Hansson, Kenny Håkansson) – 7:34
  4. "Waltz for Interbeings" – 3:26

Side 2

  1. "Time for Great Achievements" – 3:11
  2. "The Hybrills" – 1:24
  3. "Rabbit Music: a) General Woundwort b) Fiver" – 6:30
  4. "Day and Night" – 4:33
  5. "A Happy Prank" – 3:17

2004 CD reissue bonus track

  1. "The Crystal Suite: a) Crystals b) Memories of Darkness c) Light Again" – 6:21

Personnel

Releases

  • CD Attic Thoughts One Way Records 1996
  • CD Attic Thoughts EMI Music Distribution 2004
  • CD Attic Thoughts Virgin 2004
  • CD Attic Thoughts [Bonus Track] EMI Music Distribution 2005

References

  1. ↑ Bruce Eder. "Attic Thoughts – Bo Hansson". AllMusic.
  2. 1 2 Smith, Bradley. (1998). The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music. Billboard Books. pp. 97–98. ISBN 0-8230-7665-2.
  3. ↑ "Attic Thoughts production credits". Silence Records. Archived from the original on 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  4. 1 2 "Bo Hansson: A Brief History". Dutch Progressive Rock Page. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  5. 1 2 "Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts album review". Dutch Progressive Rock Page. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  6. ↑ "Mellnväsen production credits". Silence Records. Archived from the original on 2010-08-14. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  7. ↑ Snider, Charles. (2008). The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock. Strawberry Bricks. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-615-17566-9.
  8. ↑ Brown, Tony. (2000). The Complete Book of the British Charts. Omnibus Press. p. 377. ISBN 0-7119-7670-8.
  9. ↑ "Bo Hansson Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-06-12.


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