Janne Schaffer: Janne Schaffer's Andra LP

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Janne Schaffer
Björn J:Son Lindh (clavinet, f, el p)
Mads Winding (el b)
Björn Linder (slide g)
Stefan Brolund (el b)
Per Sahlberg (el g)
Lukas Lindholm (el b)
Malando Gassama (cng, d, hand d)
Pete Robinson (syn, clavinet)
John Gustavsson (el b)
Jan Bandel (d, vib, perc)
Ola Brukert (d)
Peter Östlund (d)

Label:

Four Leaf Records

August/2017

RecordDate:

1974

Swedish guitarist Schaffer is best known for his session work with ABBA but his little-known mid-1970s studio recordings made under his own name offer much more substantial fare, focusing on super tight instrumental funk-fusion that allows his phenomenal fret-wrangling skills to blaze forth. He's obviously open to the influences of his more famous peers: tracks like ‘Dr Abraham’, full of deliciously cramped clavinet, wouldn't sound out of place on Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow; while ‘Underhuggaren,’ with its rattling xylophone and pitch-bent Moog solo could be Roxy-era Zappa. Schaffer's soloing, too, shows some recognisable imprints, with more than a touch of Jerry Garcia's sky-high imagination. But there's plenty of his own personality here too – from the folkish prog of ‘Ugglor/Mossen’ with flitting flute and acoustic guitar, to tantalising vignettes such as ‘Luftlandsättning Avd. 60’, which rubs avant-garde scrabbling up against a deep funk vamp driven by obscenely fat bass. ‘Waterloo’ it ain't.

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