01	Five Single Combats						05:54
	02	Ventilation Calculation						05:06
	03	The Forge						05:11
	04	The Thrall						05:08
	05	The Panting Short Story						03:53
	06	Pappa (With Right Of Veto)						04:29
	07	The Farmhand						07:36
	08	Kernel In Short And Long Castling						05:48

Zamla Mammaz Manna
Familjesprickor
Silence (SRSCD 3612)
Sweden 1980

Lars Hollmer, keyboards, accordion, vocal;
Eino Haapala, guitar, vocal;
Lars Krantz, bass, vocal;
Vilgot Hansson, drums, percussion;
Hans Bruniusson, drums, percussion

Tracklist:
1. Five Single Combats - 6:00
2. Ventilation Calculation - 5:10
3. The Forge - 5:15
4. The Thrall - 5:10
5. The Panting Short Story - 4:05
6. Pappa (with right of veto) - 4:30
7. The Farmhand - 7:45
8. Kernel in Short and Long Castling - 5:50

total time 43:45


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Final release by the band until their late-90s comeback, translates to "Family Cracks". The group had all but abandoned instrumental prog on Schlagerns... or so you thought. This album ditches almost all of the quirky folk-pop for hard-edged RIO jams. Many fans choose this as a favorite, and while it lacks the warmth of previous releases, it is arguably the most intense, and easily demonstrates the most technical facility.
"Five Single Combats" is a tune wherein the band kicks out the jams, tricked-up and relentlessly. Actually, there is a considerable RIO influence at work here, taken from bands like Univers Zero and Henry Cow, but where those bands can be ultra-serious and pseudo-pedantic, Zamla is like a cartoon on speed. Time signatures get hammered, percussion goes a-flying, and darned if that old saloon piano doesn't give this kind of stuff a zing.

The only real sung 'song' on the album is "Pappa (with right of veto)". This was recorded live, and sounds like a traditional folk tune given the evil-circus music treatment. Two drummers really put some weight on this tune, and when the hyper-kinetic ending hits, you're just about ready to declare your everyday avant-rock lame. Actually, if Mr. Bungle had heard this band, I'd say they ripped them off, but of course, I know better.

Oddly, this album contains some of the most straight-forward music the band produced. "The Forge", despite some disorienting electric percussion, is basically hard fusion, and "Ventilation Calculation" verges on banality a la Spyro Gyra. The good generally outweighs the not-as, however, and this is a fun, if atypical, Zamla album.