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Attic Thoughts
Type:studio
Artist:Bo Hansson
Cover:Bo_Hansson_Attic_Thoughts.jpg
Released:April 1975
Recorded:1974–1975
Studio:Bo Hansson's home and Studio Decibel, Stockholm
Genre:Progressive rock
Length:37:07
Label:Charisma
Producer:Anders Lind, Bo Hansson
Prev Title:Magician's Hat
Prev Year:1972
Next Title:Music Inspired by Watership Down
Next Year:1977

Attic Thoughts is a 1975 instrumental progressive rock album by Swedish musician Bo Hansson.[1]

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.[2] [3] The album featured contributions from many of the same session musicians and friends that had played on Hansson's previous album, Magician's Hat.[3] 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.[4]

In Hansson's native Sweden, Attic Thoughts was released with the Swedish title of Mellanväsen.[5] It was released with its English title in April 1975 by Charisma Records,[1] [6] but was less commercially successful than Hansson's preceding solo albums and failed to reach the charts in the UK or the United States.[4] [7] [8]

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

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

Personnel

Releases

Notes and References

  1. Book: Smith, Bradley.. 97–98. 1998. The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music. Billboard Books. 0-8230-7665-2.
  2. Web site: Attic Thoughts production credits . . 2010-06-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100814203336/http://www.silence.se/bohansson/ATTic.htm . 2010-08-14 .
  3. Web site: Bo Hansson: A Brief History. Dutch Progressive Rock Page. 2010-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20100531062929/http://www.dprp.net/forgotten/hansson/index.html. 31 May 2010 . live.
  4. Web site: Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts album review. Dutch Progressive Rock Page. 2010-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20100430232616/http://www.dprp.net/forgotten/hansson/index2.html. 30 April 2010 . live.
  5. Web site: Mellnväsen production credits. Silence Records. 2010-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20100814203158/http://www.silence.se/bohansson/MELLAN.htm. 2010-08-14. dead.
  6. Book: Snider, Charles.. 323. 2008. The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock. Strawberry Bricks. 978-0-615-17566-9.
  7. Book: Brown, Tony.. 377. 2000. The Complete Book of the British Charts. Omnibus Press. 0-7119-7670-8.
  8. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p39290|pure_url=yes}} Bo Hansson Billboard Albums]. Allmusic. 2010-06-12.

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