The one and only album from this Swedish band.
The band was a trio with a lineup of organ, synths, electric piano, bass, saxophone, drums and Swedish vocals.
Not much is known about this band who were formed by a TV movie scores composer and who only delivered this album.
An album with a semi-classics status among the Swedish symphonic prog albums.
A relevant reference is ELP. But there is not much of these bombastic pieces of music in Miklagard's music. There are more Genesis flavours here.
The symphonic prog is very neo-prog long before neo-prog were invented. The sound is very down to earth and melody based. The songs are quirky too with some Gentle Giant references.
The organs and synths are painting some rather big pictures now and then. The vocals are intricate and the album is full of small, quirky details.
This is indeed a quirky half an hour long album who does leave the listener pretty satisfied. It deserve it's status. I would indeed endorse it and recommend this album to those who likes quirky symphonic prog.
3 points
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