DEMO TAPES

A mythical four track demo cassette with Autumn Breeze have been circulating in the tape trading circuit for a long time and low-fi copies of it have been widely spread among progressive rock collectors all around the world. Now at last a CD with decent sound quality, that justifies the material have been released directly from the source, topped with another demo with 4 tracks from 1977 which had been shelved and totally unknown until now. Of the four tracks from the "unknown" demo a very long version of "Nummer 646" with Swedish lyrics is the best. It's a grower with its loose atmosphere and Latin rhythms inspired by "Santana" All material from the more "wellknown" demo ended up on the "Höstbris" album, except for "Gammal Man" ironically their best song ever, halfway through, it turns into a hardrock monster in the vein of "Uriah Heep" and the untamed vocals by Leif Forsberg (their second singer on these two demos) have never sounded better. I would say that Autumn Breeze's most exciting material is spread on this CD, a four star rating with a (+).

Peter Wallgren (Okt 2009)