Instrumental
International relevance: ***
Housed in a stunning sleeve, the cover
art is the best thing about this album. Musically it's typical jazz
funk fusion that was popular in Sweden in the latter half of the
70's. Extremely competent with a strong Egba vibe, but also utterly
dull. Sweden was obviously very proud of its many fusionists back
then, but no matter how much we patted our own jazz funk heads we
rarely came up with anything above average. OK, so ”Liten vit funk”
and ”Älgen dansar” are decent tracks, but why I should listen to
Swedish run-of-the-mill bands when I can listen to Miles Davis,
Mahavishnu or even early Weather Report if that's what I need is beyond me. And why I
should listen to a second rate Egba when the real Egba bore me stiff
most of the time is an even greater mystery. But if you're a fan of Swedish jazz
funk, then ”Mamba” is worth the effort to seek it out.
One Mamba track is found on the
”Between or Beyond the Northern Lights” compilation of Nordic
fusion released in 2002.
Worth noting is that guitar player Mats
Norrefalk had previosly been in Saga along with November's Christer
Stålbrandt. Norrefalk also played on Thomas Wiehe's 1978 album ”Två
vindar”.
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