
Gregory Allan Fitzpatrick :
"Born 1945 in USA. Fitzpatrick arrived to Finland in 1966 as a tourist but ended up spending a year there making music. In 1967 he moved to Sweden and joined a band called The Quints who became Atlantic Ocean (3) in 1968. They released one album and split up in 1970.
After Atlantic Ocean Fitzpatrick founded Handgjort, a band who played Indian music. After that he composed the RIO meets classical rock opus "Snorungarnas Symfoni" which he performed together with Samla Mammas Manna. He also issued a solo album in a similar vein called "Bildcirkus". In the 1980s he produced synth-pop band Adolphson-Falk and made music for commercials.
Fitzpatrick used stage names Göran Ahlin, Marcus Brandelius and Sverker Ali Khan in Sweden because he didn't have the country's permission to live there."
Samla Mammas Manna :
"Swedish music group formed by Lars Hollmer, Hans Bruniusson, Lars Krantz and Bebben Öberg in 1970. After Bebben Öberg left the group 1971, Coste Apetrea joined them autumn 1972. 1976 Samla took a break and reformed 1977 as Zamla Mammaz Manna, now with Eino Haapala on guitar. 1978 Zamla became the swedish member of Rock In Opposition (RIO). 1980 Lars Hollmer and Eino Haapala continued as Von Zamla together with members from Albert Marcoeur's group and Univers Zero. 1990 Samla reformed, Hans Bruniusson being replaced by Tatsuya Yoshida in 2002."
Gregory Allan Fitzpatrick
composer, arranger
Lars Hollmer
keyboards
Hasse Bruniusson
drums
Coste Apetrea
guitar, balalaika
Lars Krantz
bass
Ärtan Wallander
guest, saxophone
Kalle Eriksson
guest, trumpet
Janne Hansson
engineer