Browse by Artist: ZAMLA MAMMAZ MANNA

Artist:	ZAMLA MAMMAZ MANNA
Title:	Schlagerns Mystik
Label:	SILENCE (SWEDEN)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SRSCD 3610CD

Year 2003 reissue of this 1978 double album. Members of Zamla Mammaz Manna included: Hans Bruniusson (drums, xylophone, chimes, vibraphone, song), Eino Haapala (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vibraphone, song), Lars Hollmer (electric piano, Korg polyphonic, Hohner-symphonic grand piano, accordion, song), Lars Krantz (electric bass, double-bass, acoustic guitar, song). Samla Mammas Manna started in the early '70s and are still a vivid band. This is their second name in their three different progressive guises, reflecting the beginning of their more experimental aspects. This intense and energetic music is filled with happy pranks and fast turnings and has for more than 25 years amused its listeners all over the world. This double album consists of an album of live improvisations from 1977 and an album of more typical Samla/Zamla material, although with more of a folky influence that shows through more than ever before. Frontman Lars Hollmer has beside his solo career also been part of several international musical constellations (Ramlösa Kvällar, Fem Söker En Skatt, Accordion Tribe).

Artist:	ZAMLA MAMMAZ MANNA
Title:	Familjesprickor
Label:	SILENCE (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SRSCD 3612CD

Their third album under their second band name, originally issued by Silence in 1980, now reissued. Familjesprickor (Family Cracks) was the last album recorded by Zamla Mammaz Manna, until the group went back to their original name. This release was recorded over a long period of overseas touring and affiliation with Chris Cutler's Rock in Opposition project, and the results are reflected. Zamla lost their original drummer, Hans Bruniusson, and was replaced by Vilgot Hansson, with the band duly noting in the liner notes "a period of transition," with the music not as "optimistic and happy" as on previous releases. This is by far the most avant prog release from the Samla/Zamla body of work -- Familjesprickor is a tense mixture of Henry Cow-like jams, interspersed with frenetic cartoon piano, hyperkinetic rhythms, and high-energy weird folk. Recorded March to June 1980 in the Cocky Chickenhouse, Uppsala, Strassbourg, France and Germany. Mixed at the Silence Studios, Värmland, Sweden.

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page