- a powerhouse of sound and playing pleasure
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Saluki
Amazing Games
Finally! "the second coming"
Saluki's Second LP that was never released in 77!
Newly recorded songs from back then! Some songs were swapped with a couple of others from the same era. The songs were recorded "live" in the studio with a few additions here and there, but mostly as it was done in 77!
The result has been a wonderfully beautiful re-experience of a time that has forever left its mark on those who experienced it, and we hope we have managed to transport the spirit of that time into the present!
The reception from the concert audience has been surprisingly overwhelming and the feedback on the recordings so far has far exceeded expectations, so we are super happy with the result!
Also because we have had free rein with the presentation! It means a lot for a band that hasn't played together since 1978 and has the ideology and inspiration intact from the time we played these songs.
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MORGENBLADET Dec 2017:
"Jazzrock band SALUKI's only album... has become mythological among vinyl fetishists and other fans of frequent tempo changes and well-played solos. The result was a funky collection of fusion with both progressive influences and silky West Coast choruses"
MOJO: *** Feb 2018
UK VIBE: **** Jan 201
"This Saluki debut is perhaps the most desirable releases from the Compendium label and has become a collectors piece of the progressive Norwegian jazz-rock scene. At times, the guitar and vocal styling can veer a little too close to rock than jazz for my tastes, but it stops at becoming a full-out cape fest"
Press clip from the release of SALUKI Round 2 Big dipper 2017/18: EVERYDAY LIFE D2 MAGAZINE Jan 2018:
"Freddy Dahl is a very central performer through several eras in Norwegian music life, and the fact that he is not included in the so-called Rockheim Hall of Fame is, if not a scandal, then at least a shame.
Perhaps the toughest LP you can buy right now is undoubtedly the elaborate reissue of the band SALUKI and their debut album from 1977,
including one with a young Bjørn Jenssen on
drums and Dahl in front. Published by Compendium, which was the
hippest record store and freak collective. The music is prog jazz funk with elements of west coast rock and therefore of its time, at the same time it sounds exactly the way many younger and dedicated music fans like it today. Not only in terms of the new prog wave, there are sometimes very danceable and soulful grooves too. The most impressive is probably the new recording of the Junipher Greene song "Take The Road Across The Bridge" with Radka Toneff and Sylvi Lillegård in the chorus,
"The music is progette jazz funk with elements of west coast rock and thus of its time, at the same time it sounds exactly like many younger and dedicated music fans love it today!... it is so funky and full of freethinking that it is as if time stops. Must be listened to with arms in the air and with the certainty that the time for good music will always come again."
Audun Wings
TODAY'S BUSINESS
ABOUT SALUKI
Norwegian prog rock at its best!
With Freddy Dahl and Peter Symington as frontmen, Saluki played concerts at festivals, clubs and toured extensively in Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands in the period 1976 - 77.
At the time, Saluki was described as a catchy, melodic band, with driving rhythms, polyphonic singing and very skilled instrumental playing.
Saluki released their first album, Saluki, on March 30, 1977.
And folks, there's no doubt that the Saluki family has now come together to form a powerhouse of melodious sound and playing pleasure! The repertoire has been given even more punch, and is also being replenished with newly written material.
Salukis are:
Freddy Dahl (vocals/guitar)
Peter A. Symington (vocals/wind synth/percussion)
Ginn Jahr (bass/vocals)
Trond Tufte (guitar)
Henrik R. Fossum (drums)
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