If Earth had been as antiseptic
following the Big Bang as Kornet was, evolution would never have
happened. They're the perfect example of why I loathe most
jazz rock. It's so wrapped up in perfection that if there was even one
tiny duff note, the members would still lie sleepless at night soaked in
the cold sweat of terror.
Kornet (Manifest, 1975)
Instrumental
Instrumental
International relevance: ***
Drenched in endless guitar acrobatics,
electric piano and slippery synths, Kornet's debut album is the
epitomic fusion album of the kind you play to your enemies to punish
them, and punish them hard. Well, maybe not even to them. I can't even find one track that makes it remotely worthwhile to sit through
this laughably impeccable exercise in sterility worth it.
Fritt fall (Manifest, 1977)
Instrumental
Instrumental
International relevance: ***
Add some more funk to it and it gets
even worse. If your enemies didn't get the drift the first time around, then try "Fritt fall". This bloated act of self-aggrandizing ostentation should teach them a lesson. This is the very antithesis to what
I want music to be.
III (Pick Up, 1979)
Instrumental
Instrumental
International relevance: ***
Take the worst things out of the
previous two albums, steep them in a production that would even put
the drum sound of Frank Zappa's revisionist remix of ”We're Only In
It for the Money” to shame, and voilà! Kornet's third.
Digital Master/Direct Cut (12”, Sony,
1979)
Instrumental
International relevance: ***
The last Kornet release is also their
best but only because it's short, 15 minutes on a 12”.
Sweden's first digital vinyl release. How appropriate to Kornet test
tube music conservatory bragging contest hogwash.
As if this wasn't enough, three Kornet tracks can be found on ”Progglådan”.
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