01	Big City						11:28
	02	Elidor						01:35
	03	Before the Rain						01:30
	04	Fylke						01:52
	05	Playing Downhill into the Downs						01:45
	06	Findhorn's Song						01:37
	07	Awakening						02:47
	08	Wandering Song						03:16
	09	The Sun (Parallel or 90°)						07:14
	10	Excursion with Complications						03:28
	11	Devided Reality						06:20

Bo Hansson: Hammond organ, guitar, syntheziser, slide bass
Rune Carlsson: Drums, conga, cowbell
Kenny Hakansson: Guitars
Gunnar Bergsten: Saxophone, flute
Sten Bergman: Flute
Bobo Svensson: Piano (The Sun)
Owe Gustavsson: Bass (The Sun)
Pelle Ekman: Drums (The Sun)
Recorded, mixed and produced by Anders Lind at Studio Decibel, Stockholm.

Silence Records SRS 4615 - 1972 LP
Silence Records SRSCD 3615 - 2000 CD


Bo Hansson - Magician's Hat

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Once again a completely instrumental album. All tracks by Bo Hansson.

'Ur Trollkarlens Hatt' was released as Silence SRS4615 in 1972 in Sweden. 'Magicians Hat' was also released in the USA as Charisma 6062 in 1973.

Charisma CAS 1073 1973, re-released 1983 Charisma


Bo Hansson - "Ur Trollkarlens Hatt" (1972)
The follow up was a less even album than "Sagan..." as it unfortunately included some tedious stuff like "Vandringslеt" and "Solen (parallellt eller 90 grader)". The latter was a jam with lots of el-piano and no development and seemed to have no other function than filling up the album. But despite these flaws, most of the album is another atmospheric and enjoyable collection of fairy-tale themes. The flute and sax is a lot more dominant here than on "Sagan...", giving the album a slightly different feel but still with Hansson's distinctive signature-sound. "Elidor", "Fore regnet", "Fylke" and "Sluttningar (lek i nerforsbacke)" are all short but wonderful fairy-tale themes that will make you think of elves and deep forests. Hansson also explores some new territory. "Utflykt med forvecklingar" starts very much in the vein of "Sagan..." but turns surprisingly into a pure jazz-part at the end. But the attempt at fusing a bluesy harmonica into the sound on "Uppvaknandet" was not very successful. The jazzy "Storstad" and "Delad verklighet" were much better. The latter introduces both acoustic guitar and Mellotron to his sound. Both these tracks showed a growing degree of complexity that would later be explored on "Mellanvasen", making "Ur Trollkarlens Hatt" a somewhat transitional but still good album.