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release date: Sep. 1983
format: vinyl (MLR 35) / cd (1997)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,54]
pro. by Stefan Glaumann & Imperiet
label: Mistlur (vinyl) / MNW (CD) - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Rasera" (live) - 2. "Tusentals händer" - 4. "Sjung inte falskt" (4 / 5) - 6. "Kom ihåg! (Den fria världen?)" - 10. "Höghus, låghus, dårhus"
Full-length studio debut by Imperiet - the band already released the 4 track ep Rumdimperiet in Jun. 1982 as Rumdimperiet. While being part of Ebba Grön, Joakim Thåström, Stry Terrarie and Gunnar "Gurra" Ljungstedt initiated their side-project, Rymdimperiet with bassist Christian Falk. On "Rasera" Imperiet has been expanded with saxophonist Per Hägglund, who also played sax on both Kärlek & upprör (1981) as well as on the final album by Ebba Grön. Basically, Imperiet is the continued story of Ebba Grön having only replaced a bassist and expanded the band with a musician who already used to play with the band.
Also, the style is really just the style of Ebba Grön continued, which is just nice. On this, one will find many similarities with the last album by Ebba Grön, which means a combo of post-punk and more traditional pop / rock and a blend with especially blues rock traces.
The album was reissued on Mistlur in 1992 in an expanded edition titled Rasera + Mini-LP, which starts with the 1984 release Imperiet and continues (from track #7) with Rasera. The album was then reissued by MNW in 1997 where it's simply titled Rasera with 6 bonus tracks... , though the playing order remains the same. In either case the cd combo issue is a rather fine release, only I wish they had kept the chronological order intact, and even better: issued the combo album as a 2 discs-release.
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| 1992 reissue | 1997 reissue |
