Instrumental
International relevance: **
Before you gasp in anticipation: this has nothing to do with Anders Nordh's Life. It's a jazz funk album released on the Coop label best known to proggsters for one LP each by Pondus and Sabu Martinez. Speaking of Martinez: Life drummer Conny Lundström can be heard on his legendary ”Afro Temple” as well as Mellotronen's archival Sabu disc ”The Dalecarlia Recordings”. Keyboardist Pierre Swärd is probably the best known member of the gang though, with a curriculum vitae covering Mikael Ramel, Acke and Soffgruppen and plenty beyond that.
But make no mistake: The Life album is
a truly futile effort of stiff furniture store fusion devoid of soul,
spirit and driving force. Hadn't it been for the band name, this
album would show no traces of life whatsoever. It's so empty that I
can't even be angry at it – it's just nothing. Zero, zilch, nada and nought. Even the album cover excels in utter voidness.
Albums like
this always make me wonder why they even exist. Why did anyone bother
to record this? Who bothers to listen to it? Does anybody actually
like it? Isn't there a road somewhere that
needs filling?
Sheesh.
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