Album Club, March 2015: Blues Section - 'Blues Section'

[Album Club]

This month's Album Club choice comes courtesy of Mika (MikaK) with an interesting (and I would assume little-know) group from Finland - Blues Section with their eponymous album. Please listen to the complete album before you vote.



Blues Section – “Blues Section”



Love Records LRS 1005(1967)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Section


Blues Section is considered a seminal and ground-breaking group in Finnish rock music. They started in 1967 and formed around the vocalist Jim Pembroke, a British expatriate song-writer living in Finland. The other members of the band were Eero Koivistoinen (saxophone), Ronnie Österberg (drums), Hasse Walli (guitar), and Måns Groundstroem (bass). Their influences came among all from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Jimi Hendrix, who had played a sensational gig in Helsinki in May 1967. However you can hear also similarities e.g. with bands like The Beatles or The Doors.

Blues Section released a self-titled album late 1967 on Helsinki's legandary independent label Love Records. Their eponymous album was one of the very first Love Records releases and also one of the rarest items on the label with the catalog number LRS1005. Also Svart Records has reissued the album few years ago in HQ pressing and I hear second reissue is coming soon as the first one is already sold out.. http://svartrecords.com/shoppe/rock-...tion&results=1

Blues Section was perhaps the most influential band in Finland in the late sixties, and after the bands short lifespan the members continued in such acclaimed and better known finnish progressive rock bands as Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidentti. Eero Koivistoinen was to become an internationally acclaimed jazz musician still producing very good albums, and Hasse Walli would discover world music, playing in such bands as Piirpauke, and his son being the late lead character of the famous modern Finnish progressive group Kingston Wall.

Spotify:

spotify:album:6A2itPQK1aU8zHVnAt3spP

open.spotify.com/album/62QZygHUSerUUBPMLOIWYq
(UK users may encounter difficulties in accessing the above links.)

Grooveshark:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/profile/Bl...ction/22438687

YouTube links for two of their singles:

[Tom-Brown]

Sounds right for the era, but is it me or do they sound a little "Beatle-ish" - and in doing so, not my cup of tea. Some of the guitar riffs are great

[Marco]

Love it - just my kind of thing! Funky as a very funky thing… Trust Mika to come up with something this good

Must try and get some of their stuff.

Marco.

[The Barbarian]

Jim Pembroke was not from Finland he was English i recommend his LP under the name of Hot Thumbs O'Riley ' Wicked Ivory' The backing band on this LP is ofc Wigwam. You might notice that the LP gives the impression it was recorded in a club venue if you get the chance to hear it...

Here's a version of ''Grass For Blades''



& check out the ARP 'Odyssey'

[Bazil]

The Spotify link opens the album but I can't access the songs "not available to UK users"

[Mika K]

Damn, didn't see that one coming. Apologies..

[RichB]

Tried all the links and I can't any to open the album.

Searches on Spotify also produce no results.

Anyone else had any joy with this... I'm actually quite keen to hear it.

[RichB]

Tried all the links and I can't get any to open the album.

Searches on Spotify also produce no results.

Anyone else had any joy with this... I'm actually quite keen to hear it.

[struth]

Nope

[Marco]

I just listened to the YouTube links! Is that too obvious?

Marco.