Maksymenko, Michael - BusinessCide Musical Situations 1977-1989
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This is a collection of some of the very small but very great work by drummer/composer Michael Maksymenko, best known - if at all - for the amazing album and EP he did with Kraldjuranstalten. While it's great to have this collection, especially as it collects a few songs from his long-lost and never reprinted solo album Nu Kan Det Sagas as well as what I think is a never released 23' version of "Dropped D", if you are interested in Michael's work, you might be better served buying the Kraldjursanstalten CD, which collects the entire studio output by the band.
"Michael, founder and brain behind the extraordinary Swedish post-Beefheartian group Kraldjursastalten, and world-class ice-hockey player, here collects his extraordinary songbook including much of the two celebrated '70s releases by Kraljursastalten (the Reptile Institution: Michael plus the telepathic twins Stefan and Thomas Agaton), with later recordings from his solo record and released and unreleased pieces with Henry Kaiser, John 'Drumbo' French, Sten Standell, Andy West and others. Wild lurching swing complexity, ridiculous tempi, great rhythms, sudden mood changes, fine compositions and music that is always to the point: no fat, just coffee and cigarettes. Classic. Genre: Unpopular. Influences: Anatolij Tarasov, chief-coach and master-trainer of the Soviet national Ice-hockey team 1958-1972, inventor of "collective telepathy at high speed".