Gavelin – “Mean Machine”
1994 Jan Johansen, together with the songwriter, producer and ex-Magnum Bonum-member Mats Hedström started recording a bunch of rock songs. The year after, though, Jan Johansens career took a different turn, as he won the Swedish Melody Festival, and the project was paused.
Then, last year, they revived the rock project, wrote new songs, recorded an album and reformed the band Gavelin. Now the late debut album “Mean Machine” has been released and when I listen my thought is that this must be what Jan Johansen’s voice was really ment for.
If you like classic rock and hard rock from the seventies with the early Whitesnake, Free, The Faces, Rolling Stones and Bad Company you should listen to “Mean Machine”. 12 good tracks of great retro rock, Jan’s voice feels like hand in glove here, and I can only hope that they continue with the band.
The album is available on Spotify, Gavelin’s site and Soundcloud. The band also has a Facebook page. Here is “Jealousy”, “Cash Is King” and “Baby Like a Rolling Stone”. Two of these songs was recorded in ’94 and the third recently. Can you hear which one is new?
