Samla Mammas Manna

Rocktopus wrote: Not even Folkvise i Morse and Little Karin (by Zamla)?

Not really, although I guess especially the latter comes a bit closer than usual.

I still can't get into them...

Explorer-eighth wrote: They have influences of Swedish folk music which I have never heard in any other band.

Actually, they don't. Lars Hollmer has a tendency towards writing melodies that sound as if they could be some sort of folk music, so you'd definitely be forgiven for thinking so, but there's no Swedish Folk that sounds anything like that.

Zamla Mammaz Manna must have been influenced by Frank Zappa, Egg, Soft Machine and Henry Cow.  When I listen to Zappa's Absolutely Free, I can hear some similarities.  Zamla Mammaz Manna are very individual in spite of that.  They have influences of Swedish folk music which I have never heard in any other band.  I have got Maltid; Klossaknapitatet and Familjesprickor in my CD collection.

I have Klossa Knapitatet and Familjesprickor.

Usenet is extremely frightening...  it was around long before the web or p2p...  But if you can figure it out, and know where to go and what to avoid, it can be amazing.

Usenet's where it's at, alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.prog posted their entire discography recently, and Usenet is a direct stream from your ISP, so speeds are as fast as you can handle. 

  I LOVE these guys.

 

SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA & the off-shoot ZAMLA MAMMAZ MANNA - the best Swedish prog band ever...    

Of course, in my humble opinion.

 

Trouserpress wrote: progreviews wrote: Or, better yet, get thee to Wayside Music or Syn-Phonic. Pirating underground prog (from tiny labels with tiny profit margins)... not cool. Agreed, but not all of us have money to spare. I'm a jobless student who's obsessed with prog - I have a simple choice. A) Forget about exploring the music I love or B) Download music until I have a regular income and can replace the albums with real CDs (as I'd dearly love to do). Ripping off artists is the LAST thing I want to do.

I hear you. I'm actually all for file sharing, but I also don't want the prices of prog CDs to inflate because of it, or (more likely) labels to go out of business. I think file sharing actually is good for the industry as a whole (and frankly I don't really care about pirating major label stuff regardless of the economics of it), but harmful for small niches like ours.

Anyways, back to the topic at hand Have you heard any Zamla Mammaz Manna or Von Zamla? Von Zamla especially is pretty awesome stuff, though it's instrumental and a little darker. I think 1983, a live album recently released on Cuneiform, is the only one in print on CD.