Matt Laminated Die-Cut Cover, Poster, Printed Innersleeve
2.100 €
Following the release of their debut album, Aunt Mary toured throughout Norway to overwhelming success. With venues sold out everywhere and unanimously euphoric reviews, the band was hailed as the best Norwegian rock band of all time. The following summer in 1971, they played numerous live shows as the support act for big names such as Deep Purple and Jethro Tull. The band performed so convincingly that the audience kept demanding encores, which disliked the headliners and eventually led to them being forbidden from playing them. After recording a few singles, lead singer and keyboardist Jan Leonard Groth left the group. Consequently they relocated back to their home town of Fredrikstad in Norway, where they found an outstanding keyboardist in Bengt Jenssen. Bjørn Kristiansen took over as lead vocalist.
Recordings for a second album took place this time at Rosenborg Studios in Oslo in October 1972 with Johnny Sareussen as producer. The quartet now adopted a harder musical approach, incorporating elements of prog rock and impressing with dual-guitar riffs in the style of early 1970s heavy progressive rock. Their follow-up album Loaded was released in November 1972, this time on the major label Philips. Immediately after the studio sessions, the band embarked on a tour of Norway. Following their third album Janus the band split up. As this album, which was released exclusively in Norway by Philips in a die-cut sleeve with an accompanying poster, is now extremely hard to find, it is now regarded as a genuine rarity.