LP&12' TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI Same (Re) WHITE VINYL Svart SVR241 - Jukka Tolonen
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LP&12' TASAVALLAN PRESIDENTTI
Tasavallan Presidentti
Country of release: Finland, 2013
Original released: 1969
Label: Svart
Catalogue number: SVR-241
Barcode: 6430050660789
Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Ja/Yes
Includes replica of the original album release tour poster
Condition Record: MINT
Condition Cover: MINT
LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks Side 1:
1. Introduction / You'll Be
Back For More (6:15)
2. Obsolete Machine (3:54)
3. Who's Free
(3:28)
4. I Love You Teddy Bear (3:39)
5. Crazy Thing No. 1
(0:45)
6. Drinking (3:14)
Tracks Side 2:
1. Crazy Thing No. 2 (0:14)2. Driving Through (4:31)
3. Ancient Mariner (3:25)
4. Wutu-Banale (6:37)
5. Woman Of The World (2:52)
6. Roll Over Yourself (2:26)
7. Thinking Back (3:01)
Tracks Maxi-Single, Side 1:
1. Time Alone With You (3:30)
2. Obsolete Machine (3:54)
Tracks Maxi-Single, Side 2:
1. Solitary (3:43)
2. Deep Thinker (2:42)
Listen At YouTube:
Tasavallan Presidentti (in english "President Of The Republic") is a Finnish progressive rock band. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist Jukka Tolonen and drummer Vesa Aaltonen. Other founder members were Måns Groundstroem (Bass) and Frank Robson (Vocals), previously of Blues Section. Juhani Aaltonen (Saxophone, Flute) had earlier played in Soulset; he was replaced in 1970 by Pekka Pöyry. Eero Raittinen replaced Robson as a vocalist in 1972, the same year as the album Lambertland was released in UK. The album was a tight fusion of jazz and folk rock with highly inventive and imaginative lyrics. Tasavallan Presidentti disbanded in 1974, then reunited from 2005-2006. (wikipedia.org)
Tasavallan Presidentti is Finland's second-most important group of the 70's after Wigwam (both had English mother-tongued singers), but it was born out of the ashes of a previous band called Blues Section, when US singing-pianist Robson (whose voice can be reminiscent of Stevie Winwood) and bassist Goundstroem teamed up with brilliant guitarist Jukka Tolonen and the Aaltonen brothers (drums and winds). The debut album is strange and unfocused affair, where the blues crosses progressive rock, but there is also plenty of other musical references, from jazz to classical tidbits. Released in 1969 on the inevitable (for Finland) Love Record label, the album sports a misleading Greek-mythical musician artwork on its sleeve, one that doesn't relater well to the music inside it.
The opening Robson-penned You'll Be Back For More is a fairly good example of the mix of the album with a blues-derived voice and vocals over a prog riff, the whole thing not being that far from early Traffic, not only due to Robson's voice, but also Aaltonen's sax and flutes. The following Obsolete Machine and Who's Free are also like a bluesier and harder Traffic, but they lack the refinement of their inspiration. But the album takes a sudden dip with a crooner version (read involuntary pastiche) of Procol's Whiter Shade Of Pale with the near-atrocious Teddy Bear. The book-ending and amateurish-clumsy classical tidbits Crazy Things surround the prog-bluesy Drinking, where Aaltonen's flute and Tolonen's guitar solos take the spotlight.
Over the flipside, the hard-driving bluesy Driving Through track features some solid musical interplay, but it's not like we're in groundbreaking mood or anything. This could find space on a John Mayall's Bluesbreaker album, and this without the slightest disrespect. The album suffers another dramatic turn of ambiance with the cheesy narration over dissonant musical improvs during Ancient Mariner (check out David Bedford's version instead, but it came out much later), than another shift with the superb but heard-elsewhere (let you guess where, it won't be hard) Wutu-Banale, even if Steely Dan will sound a lot like this later. Woman Of The World is a hard-driving blues-rocker, where Robson sounds more like Gary Brooker than Winwood, but another untimely(and ill-advised) mood changes occurs with the rock-n-rolly Roll Over Yourself definitely ruins the album's cohesiveness. The closing Thinking Back is a fairly-dramatic (if a tad cheesy) piano-piece, oddly written by guitarist Tolonen, but played by him over bird noises.
Two non-album bonus tracks are included, most likely from a single released around the time (no details given), which are more or less in line with the album's overall mood and sound, especially the nice Solitary (again déjà-entendu), while the jazzy Traffic-like Deep Thinker gives an enjoyable final touch to the reissue. A rather enjoyable but clumsy debut affort, it's a little unfortunate that most of the tracks on the album have a déjà-entendu or heard-elsewhere, but they are all attributed to the Tasavallan Presidentti members. Certainly if they had not been Finnish and little heard-of, there might have been a few lawsuits thrown in. To be honest, it is limit-scandalous they got away with it. But this shouldn't take away the charm of this uneven and unfocused debut album that should spin once in a while in your deck.(Sean Trane/progarchives.com)
Frank Robson - Vocals, Piano, Organ
Jukka Tolonen - Guitar, Piano
Junna Aaltonen - Saxophone, Flute
Vesa Aaltonen - Drums
Måns Groundstroem - Bass, Organ
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