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Leo Afzelius is the nom de plume behind which Timothy Kjell Cross, an arranger, producer, and English keyboardist, hides. In 1976, he released Pop Spectrum, a work clearly destined to gather dust on shelves only to become of interest to today's collectors.
Like many other soundtrack albums (the one commented on here was released by the legendary Studio G), Pop Spectrum becomes a pretext to embrace a bit of all musical genres. It starts with a nice psychedelic piece like Beat in Concert, continues with the progressive rock of Space Rock, and ends up making incursions into disco music, blues, kitsch (Off Beat Reggae), and electronic minimalism (Tubular Patterns).
Surely the self-styled Afzelius must have had fun treading such different paths. In his naivety (at the time, the author was 21 years old), it is a sincere work, unpretentious, at times interesting.
It's up to you to discover it and form your own opinion.
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