Instrumental
International relevance: *** / ***
Of course there's a whole lot to be said about former Samla Mammas Manna member Coste Apetrea, He's been involved in so many things over the years. But I can't muster up enough enthusiasm for his solo work to bother. I can't think of many musicians as
boring as him on his own.
”Nyspolat” was his first solo album and it's so dull it could bore the wallpapers off Carlos Santana's wall. This is guitar acrobatics ad nauseam, both acoustic and electric, set to a fusion backdrop that could bore the wallpapers off John McLaughlin's wall. I don't even understand why this music exists apart from satisfying Apetrea's inflated ego.
”Nyspolat” was his first solo album and it's so dull it could bore the wallpapers off Carlos Santana's wall. This is guitar acrobatics ad nauseam, both acoustic and electric, set to a fusion backdrop that could bore the wallpapers off John McLaughlin's wall. I don't even understand why this music exists apart from satisfying Apetrea's inflated ego.
”Vänspel” was made with keyboard
player Stefan Nilsson featuring ultrabore Jukka Tolonen. A tiny bit
more exciting than ”Nyspolat”, thanks to Nilsson's piano,
but it's still a pain to sit through. It's so cerebreal and dull that it could bore
the wallpapers off Al DiMeola's wall.
It's albums such as these that almost make
me regret I started this blog.
By the way, Apetrea was responsible for the booklets accompanying the massive 40 CD ”Progglådan” release, with previously unreleased radio recordings by a large number of progg bands. Had he been as pedantic with his liner notes as he is with his music, then they wouldn't have been littered with so many spelling mistakes to make them more or less impossible to read without breaking something in frustration. Frankly the worst example of an insulting lack of proof reading I've ever seen in a published piece of writing I've ever seen. Sometimes he obviously just don't care when he should have, other times he cares way, way, way too much when he shouldn't.
By the way, Apetrea was responsible for the booklets accompanying the massive 40 CD ”Progglådan” release, with previously unreleased radio recordings by a large number of progg bands. Had he been as pedantic with his liner notes as he is with his music, then they wouldn't have been littered with so many spelling mistakes to make them more or less impossible to read without breaking something in frustration. Frankly the worst example of an insulting lack of proof reading I've ever seen in a published piece of writing I've ever seen. Sometimes he obviously just don't care when he should have, other times he cares way, way, way too much when he shouldn't.
This sentence in your "review" is actually very funny:
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