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Samla Mammas Manna is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Frank Zappa. Those roots explain a lot about how Samla Mammas Manna arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Henry Cow, Alamaailman Vasarat, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Soft Machine and Robert Wyatt, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Tatsuya Yoshida, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 10 connections around Samla Mammas Manna, reaching back through Frank Zappa and forward to Tatsuya Yoshida. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Samla Mammas Manna was a Swedish progressive rock band often characterized by virtuosic musicianship, circus references and silly humour, similar in many ways to the song-writing style of Frank Zappa. They were one of the founding members of the Rock in Opposition (RIO) movement in the late 1970s. In 1979 they were Fred Frith's backing band on his solo album, Gravity (1980). Musically, they bore a resemblance to the Canterbury scene.
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Samla Mammas Manna grew out of Frank Zappa, shares an orbit with Henry Cow, Alamaailman Vasarat, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and Soft Machine, went on to shape Tatsuya Yoshida. 10 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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