Oh rapture!.. or rupture?
ak | n'albny IN | 12/08/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"von zamla's 1983. i coveted this cd forever before i could track it down. how is it? it's just about as funky as a boogie man can be. the genre is 'rock in opposition' what ever that is. (i heard about this genre on 'the progress report' and there's a concert poster that says 'Art Bears rock in opposition' behind the drummer's head so this must be that stuff, huh?) mike from frenchTV absolutely loves sammla mammas mannas. these guys share members with those guys. oh yeah, the music! at times these sick sick sick dark lil grooves just get under your skin and you're movin around and then they slide in a lil sixteenth note and throw the whole time scheme off. it's like hell, you never quite get comfortable, but it's like a really great circus in hell, cuz you're havin a blast down there. 'dancing madras' is a lil dialogue track thrown in for cuteness. and it works, i do wanna bring my sleeping bag and sleep down in front of the stage. i just don't understand why rock music has embraced the sampler, the turntable, limp bizkit, but rejected the bassoon. please explain. buy this cd and then weep silently with me."
Amazing Underrated Band
Charles Cecil O'meara | guilford, CT United States | 08/11/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"sorry if this sounds like a brag, but my band was fortunate enough to play on the same stage, the same night at a U.S. Festival when Samla Mammas Manna made played their first ever U.S. gig and they were AMAZING. They are probably one of the most inventive, melodic and talented 'progressive' bands ever. the only thing that keeps them from trumpting the 'bigger' names in this genre is their sense of humor, which is fantastic and well deployed. but let's face it, most prog fans are sort of pompous and somber and like mystical wizard dark soul poetry and don't like jokes. If you love Frank Zappa, you will ADORE this group - any album!"
