PAN DISCOGRAPHY

PAN - (1970) Pan's sole album release is an impressive piece of heavy progressive rock with a touch of blues/hard rock and folk influences at its finest. The tone of the album manages to contrast both the heavy with the melancholy perfectly. Emotional vocals by Robert Lelievre (who also wrote all the songs, except "If") lend the tunes a somewhat dark, moody feel. His distinctive vocals (sung mostly in English, with two songs sung in his native French) range from the angry and frustrated to yearnful and contemplative. Thomas Puggard-Müller's spiritual guitar work plays between both the powerful and the subtle, and is occasionally somewhat reminiscent of David Gilmour. The acoustic guitar-dominated sections provide folk flair and just for variety, some jazzy moments in which a vibraphone is heard, add yet another level to the already impressive variety of styles on display. There are great emotive splashes of organ/piano by Henning Werner, and throbbing proficient bass from Arne Würgler. Michael Puggaard-Müller's skilful yet unobtrusive drumming drives along all ten songs, and it's all over in just less than 40 minutes – the way all great albums should be. The original track listing of the LP features the following songs: "My Time", "If", "Song To France", "They Make Money With The Stars", "Il N’Y Pas Se Longtemps De Ca", "Many Songs Have Been Lost", "Tristesse", "To Get Along Alone", "We Must Do Something Before The End Of The Day", and "Lady Of The Sand". Though, it's not a perfect album… in fact, the album would have benefited with the exclusion of "My Time" and "Many Songs Have Been Lost". Like a lot of early 70's albums from back in the day, both these songs don't seem to fit with the flow of the rest of album, and simply jar with the mood the rest of the songs create. As they are both relatively short tracks, it is easy to overlook this lack of focus from Robert and the band as the other songs more than make up for it. In 1993, Little Wing re-issued "Pan" for on vinyl, limited to only 1000 copies. The reissue contained two bonus tracks, "In A Simple Way" and "Ride Across My Bed", which as it happens were the A-side and B-Side on Pan's only ever 7" single release. In 2005, Karma Music also reissued the album on CD, this time with extensive liner notes (written by Claus Rasmussen in Danish), unpublished photos, and the following seven exclusive bonus tracks added: "In A Simple Way", "Right Across My Bed", "To Get Along Alone (alternate studio take)", "Eternally", "Such A Hard Way", "Tristesse (Mon Ami)" and "Don’t You Know". These last four tracks were recorded in 1971 for a follow-up album recording which never eventuated. To purchase a CD copy of the 2005 reissue, visit the official Karma Music website at: www.karma.dk/ Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

PAN ON THE AIR - (1970/2004) "Pan On The Air" was released by Karma Music in 2004, and features live Pan recordings from two separate 1970 Danish Radio shows, produced by Erik Moseholm and Freddy Hansson. CD re-production by Tomrerclaus, with extensive liner notes from Claus Rasmussen. The tracklisting includes the following five original Robert Lelievre compositions: "Far Away From Home", "Freedom", "Time", "Deliverance", and "If I Was Another Man", plus one song written with Niels Skousen - "From A Tree". The band also play a cover of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home (Ramblin' Man)", and the traditional "I Cannot Keep From Crying". To purchase this CD, visit the official Karma Music website at: www.karma.dk/ Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

IN A SIMPLE WAY/RIGHT ACROSS MY BED - (1970) On January 14th 1970, Pan went into the Wifos studio for the first time and recorded for the Sonet label, "Right Across My Bed" and "In A Simple Way". "Right Across My Bed" was released as the single, with "In A Simple Way" as the b-side. The single "Right Across My Bed" was also presented on Danish television-programme "Top Pop" on February 7th 1970. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

Derfra Hvor Vi Stod - Sange Med Merværdi: En Bevidshedsudvidende rejse I dansk rock fra 1966 to 1976 - aka - A Mind-Expanding Trip Through Danish Rock 1966-76 - (2005) Two Pan songs ("Lady of the Sand", and "Right Across My Bed") appear on this 3-cd box set, that chronicles Danish rock (mostly prog/psych/acid rock) from 1966 to 1976. Vabds include: Skousen & Ingemann, Savage Rose, Young Flowers, Ache, Midnight Sun, Stig Møller, Gnags, Culpeper's Orchard, Povl Dissing & Beefeaters, Blue Sun, Røde Mor, Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Gasolin, No Name, Alrune Rod, Beefeaters, Sebastian, Steppeulvene, Benny Holst, Moirana, Spillemændene, Secret Oyster, Old Man & the Sea, C.V. Jørgensen, Day of Phoenix, Røde Mor, Hair, Sigøjnerkompagniet, Sylvesters Jukebox, The Stomps, Stoke Set, Stig Møller, T.P. Smoke, Hasse & the Reefers, Fuhara, Feo, Dr. Dopo Jam, Albuen, Curled Edges, The Maxwells, and Crowd. The following review of this 3-cd box set was taken from www.gaffa.dk - "Derfra Hvor Vi Stod - Sange Med Merværdi is an impressive documentation of a musical history. The three cd's contains no less than 57 songs from the cradle of Danish progressive music. The artist, painter, writer and hippie Peder Bundgaard has been allowed to compile the soundtrack to his youth and his book Lykkens Pamfil. The songs are all from the period 1966 - 1976, and Peter Bundgaard's music of choice was Danish acid-rock, performed by Young Flowers, Ache, Blue Sun, Old Man & The Sea and all the other acid-heads that flipped out inside a fog of hash-smoke and other chemicals. When the flute played an important part in rock-music and it was perfectly ok to sound like a copy of Cream or Jefferson Airplane. The music on these cd's is innocent in a way that is nowhere to be found in contemporary music, but we are after all talking about the birth of Danish progressive rock - the cradle of it to be exact - where acid-rock had one guitar-sound and bare breasts were something new. This is a chapter of Danish rock-history that is all but forgotten today, but that does not make the music any less interesting to listen to. Derfra Hvor Vi Stod - Sange Med Merværdi is very entertaining, going from very amusing to excellent and to sounding dated. A great big thanks to Peter Bundgård for bringing these stoned & groovy tunes back to light again".

Det bedste af dansk musik 1969-71 - (1997) Pan's "Lady of the Sand" appears on this compilation of Danish rock. The followings bands also feature on this compilation: Beefeaters, Burning Red Ivanhoe, Jørgen Olsen & Eddie Skoller, Gnags, Alrune Rod, Trille, Sebastian, Røde Mor, Ache, Ina Løndahl, Skousen-Ingemann, Gasolin', Savage Rose, Blue Sun, Povl Dissing, Sir Henry, Culpeper's Orchard, Delta Blues Band, and Hair. Egmont Music Club EMC 6971310 (1997)

DK-Dansk kvalitets rock - (1979) Pan's "Lady of the Sand" appears on this Danish rock compilation from 1979. The following artists are also featured on this compilation: Alrune Rod, Burnin' Red Ivanhoe, Povl Dissing, Day of Phoenix, Midnight Sun, and Rainbow Band. Sonet SLP 1322 (1979)