Hysterica | ||||
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Studio album by Jukka Tolonen | ||||
Released | 1975 | |||
Recorded | Marcus Music AB in | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
Length | 37:43 | |||
Label | Love | |||
Producer | Otto Donner | |||
Jukka Tolonen chronology | ||||
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Hysterica is the fourth studio album by guitarist Jukka Tolonen, released in 1975 through Love Records; a remastered edition was reissued in 2004.
All tracks written by Jukka Tolonen.
Hysterica is more rock-oriented than its jazz fusion predecessor, The Hook. "Jimi" and "Django" are tributes to guitarists Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt, respectively. "Silva the Cat" features synthesisers emulating the mewling of a cat, whereas the flutes evoke graceful feline movements. "Tiger" displays muscular, hard rock guitar improvisation. Closing the album is "Windermere Avenue", a mid-tempo pop song with tinges of country blues in Tolonen's lead guitar. It became a minor hit on Finnish radio in 1976, whereupon it was reissued on the compilation LP Crossection. The song is a paean to the idyllic quietude of the street, which is some ten kilometres north of central London, in the borough of Barnet.