| Band Members | Torsten Olafsson, (bass, vocals)
Finn Olafsson, (guitar)
Peter Mellin, (Hammond organ, piano)
Glenn Fischer, (drums, percussion, windmachine) |
| Influences | The title track of Ache's first album, De Homine Urbano (1970), was a 20-minute long instrumental ballet suite (the ballet itself was performed in Copenhagen and Moscow). The other side of the album had another track of equal length with some vocal parts. The ambitious music (all written by Mellin and Finn Olafsson) wasn't entirely successful as it relied too heavily on ideas similar to The Nice (the classically influenced keyboards), Vanilla Fudge (their melodramatic, long dynamic pieces), Pink Floyd (their atonal pieces), early Van Der Graaf Generator and the pastoral songs of Procol Harum. Even so, the album is excellent and recommended for those who enjoy the instrumental excesses so typical of the period.
Green Man (1971) was an improvement, displaying more personality and more discipline. Ache described their own performance as "a dramatic art form based upon the coordination of heavy rock music, psychedelic light, dancing and acting - the Ache Rock Theatre". A theatre performance to correspond with the music was indeed planned but cancelled due to lack of money. For the same reason, Ache disbanded in 1971.
Four years later, Finn Olafsson and Peter Mellin decided to have another go with Stig Kreutzfeldt, Steen Toft Andersen (these two operated earlier as the duo Stig & Steen) and Gert Smedegård (ex-Kashmir). In true Ache tradition, a rock opera (with Bo Lillesøe writing the libretto) named, Pictures From Cyclus 7, was soon recorded and released. This is another interesting effort, although their final album, “Blå Som Altid”, wasn't up to the previous standards.
~Taken from Scented Gardens of the Mind - A guide to the Golden Era of Progressive Rock (1968-1980) in more than 20 European Countries, by Dag Erik Asbjørnsen, Borderline Productions |
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