Aunt Mary - Janus (1973)

Believe it or not, but there has in fact been some good progressive rock bands here in Norway too! Aunt Mary was most of their time a hard rock band in the Deep Purple vein. But on their third album, "Janus", the music took a much more progressive direction. The album is clearly inspired by Yes, Pink Floyd and Emerson Lake & Palmer. Keyboardist Bengt Jenssen had also bought a minimoog which he used in the most tasteful way. The album starts with "Path of Your Dream". The opening riff soon gets into a acuostic vocal part, and the track ends in a disharmonic riff with the moog monotonius just going on and on in the background, and it sounds great! "For All Eternity" is a quite Yes influenced track and also very good. On "Stumbling Stone" you can still hear some of the group`s hard rock roots, but in a much more experimental way than before. "All We got to do is Dream" is a nice acoustic track, and "Candles of Heaven" got some Emerson influenced hammond-work and high vocal harmonies. A great album which gets my vote as the best norwegian progressive rock album ever. - vintageprog.com

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(info by Knut Norway)

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1. Path of your dream - 4:06

2. Mr. Kaye - 2:01

3. Nocturnal voice - 6:06

4. For all eternity - 6:54

5. Untitled - Hidden track - 0:41

6. Stumblin' stone - 6:10

7. All we've got to do is dream - 2:53

8. Candles of Heaven - 5:26

9. What a lovely day - 5:15

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