LAST PLANE OUT

Swedish pop singer and music journalist join forces for a progtastic project.

JMN

IN 1996, WHEN Nils Erikson released his Swedish Grammy-nominated debut Spår, the music journalist, musician and lyricist Anders Lundquist took a fateful call from Sony Records. “The guy said, ‘You like Peter Gabriel, right?’ I said, ‘Well, my son’s name is Gabriel – that’s a clue!’” Erikson recalls. Lundquist was soon hired to write the bio for Erikson’s debut, and so began a beautiful friendship. “I couldn’t believe there was a Swedish artist up there with Bowie, Gabriel, David Sylvian and all those guys”, says Lundquist today, when he and Erikson join Prog via Zoom. “Nils should be a household name by now.” Happily, proper recognition may now beckon. Last Plane Out’s self-titled debut is an elegant, thought-provoking pop-prog record, which sees Erikson – more recently of Swedish proggers Karmakanic…

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