International relevance: ***
This is just about as obscure as it gets as this album doesn't even exist, only just a little. (Don't let the ringwear and price tag on the cover fool you.)
Hayena Band was a West Coast sextet
that only ever released one track, on Caprice Records various artists
comp ”Tvärsnitt (10 Unga Svenska Jazz- Och Rockgrupper 1978)”
where they shared space with bands like Kattegatt, Boojwah Kids and
Alter Ego (a.k.a. Alter Echo). After Hayena Band disbanded in 1978,
two of the members – drummer Werner Modiggård and saxophonist
Claes Carlsson – eventually ended up in Eldkvarn. The track on
”Tvärsnitt” is ”Puerto Tune” taken from a full length 1977
studio session held at Swedish Radio Gothenburg, and that session is
what was sneaked out to various streaming platforms in 2023 as ”Live
In Studio '77”.
The style is Latin infused jazz rock, and
while that may not sound too appealing, this is not your usual dreary
funk fusion. It's very intense and powerful with fiery guitars and
hard blowing sax. It simply rocks hard! This band must have been a
real firebomb on stage if they could work up such a frenzy in a
sterile radio studio. I don't know if there's a viable market for
their kind of music, but going only by the high quality of their
stuff, this is so very worthy of a proper release. It just isn't fair
it should just be swept into an unlit corner of the internet. I had
no idea this existed until I stumbled upon it more or less by chance,
and I'm afraid most people won't do it all. And ”Live In Studio
'77” deserves so much better than that. It's a gem.
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