Samla Mammas Manna

Perhaps most widely known simply because Lars Hollmer’s group through the 1970s, the experimental and quirky avant-progressive rock outfit Samla Mammas Manna enjoyed a following in Scandinavia beginning early for the reason that decade. The Samlas had been produced in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1969, when their first lineup contains keyboardist Hollmer, bassist Lars Krantz, drummer Hans Bruniusson, and percussionist Henrik “Bebben” ?-berg. The Samlas documented on the Chickenhouse, that was therefore named since it really was constructed on a previous chicken home that acquired belonged to Hollmer’s mom. It was on the Chickenhouse that Samla Mammas Manna documented their self-titled debut record of 1971 for Silence Information. ?-berg still left the group that season, as well as the Samlas spent almost a year being a trio before guitarist Coste Apetrea emerged up to speed in 1972. The Samlas’ second record, Måltid (Food Time), arrived on Silence in 1974 and was accompanied by Klossa Knapitatet (also on Silence) in 1975 as well as the 1976 MNW discharge Snorungarnas Symfoni (Snotty-Nosed Symphony), compiled by ex-Californian Gregory Fitzpatrick, who acquired transferred to Sweden in 1968. The music group continued to undergo personnel adjustments and followed the Zamla Mammaz Manna moniker after Apetrea still left the group in 1977 and was changed by Eino Haapala, who’s featured in the Silence dual LP Schlagerns Mystik/För Äldre Nybegynnare from 1978 and 1980’s Familjesprickor (Family members Breaks). The group split up after Familjesprickor (actually, Bruniusson left as the album’s documenting sessions had been underway, with Vilgot Hansson acquiring his place), however in 1990 the name Samla Mammas Manna was reborn after Bruniusson, Apetrea, Hollmer, and Krantz started reminiscing about outdated moments at Bruniusson’s 40th party and made a decision to keep a reunion concert. The 1990s and 2000s discovered the group executing concert events in Scandinavia, Quebec, Russia, Japan, and america and documenting for the Swedish Amigo label. Following discharge from the Kaka record in 1999, Bruniusson departed in the band, nevertheless, and was changed by Japanese drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (of Hollmer’s SOLA task, Ruins, and Koenji Hyakkei). Hollmer, Apetrea, Krantz, and Yoshida had been later heard in the Samlas record Dear Mamma, a limited-edition live Compact disc documented in Uppsala generally during Might 2002. The band’s last UNITED STATES concert is at Sept 2007 at Le Festival des Musiques Progressives de Montreal; unfortunately, Lars Hollmer became significantly sick in 2008 and passed away on Christmas Day time of that 12 months, closing the ultimate section of Samla Mammas Manna. In January of 2008, japan Arcangelo label re-released all of the Samla/Zamla albums from your band’s self-titled debut through Familjesprickor, remastered and in person cardboard mini-LP sleeves reproducing the initial recording art, and perhaps also including reward songs. Arcangelo also packed these re-releases within the Samla/Zamla Package, an eight-disc package set also like the Gregory Fitzpatrick recording Bildcirkus (Circus of Photos), not in fact a Samla/Zamla recording but including Apetrea and Bruniusson one of the personnel.