Alain Eckert - Self Titled

Alain Eckert - Self Titled - 1981
ALAIN ECKERT was the guitarist of ART ZOYD at the period 1976-81, participating in some of band`s masterworks like "SYMPHONIE POUR LE JOUR..." and "GENERATION SANS FUTUR". His quartet comprises ALAIN LECOINTRE (Navadati) on bass, PATRICIA DALLIO (Art Zoyd) on keyboards and SERGE BRINGOLF (Strave) on drums. They play a jazz prog fusion with many, as you may have guessed, classical, postclassical and improv influences. Compositions are build on complexity, inventiveness, imagination and the superb abilities of the musicians for precise, difficult, adventurous playing. Plenty of times electric side of album is quite earthed, and despite the absence of horns, violins, cellos etc... there is a superior acoustic sense prevailing due to the pure excellence of inspired piano & classical guitar contributions.
Very fine and rare work, recommended to avant garde/avant fusion fans... a must for those who need to add to their ART ZOYD family or ART ZOYD like catalogue more extraordinary releases.
godspeed!

Kan Mikami - Bang

From in Japan
Kan Mikami - Bang - 1974
A true legend of the Japanese countercultural underground, having over time worked with everyone from Shuji Terayama and his Tenjo Sajiki theatrical troupe to leading lights of the PSF-related Japanese noise psych camp via his work in Vajra and the Haino/Mikami/Yoshizawa trio, though it must be said that the deeper resonances of much of what Mikami has created over the years seems mostly available to Japanese speakers, predicated as his style is on rawboned and direct emotional conveyance and play with the Japanese language, though his ravaged articulation and soul bearing naked angst has it's western admirers even when just operating as just a man a his guitar. This early explosion of inscrutable avant folk rock/studio fucked strangeness will however go some ways toward initiating those not yet ready for the austere blast of otherness that comprises so much of his solo canon; the nerve shattering Friendsound-worthy psychotropic meele of the title track in particular being one of the more confounding/astounding artifacts of the whole Japanese psych/prog era.
godspeed!

Dzem - Detox

From in Poland
Prog Related / Progressive Rock
Dzem - Detox - 1991
Tracks.
01. Śmiech czy łzy (2.51)

02. Ostatnie widzenie (8.21)

03. Mamy forsę, mamy czas (5.01)

04. Jak malowany ptak (4.30)

05. Czarny Chleb (4.32)
06. Detox (6.45)

07. Sen o Victorii (5.44)

08. List do M (6.36)

09. Letni spacer z Agnieszką (2.03)
Members.

- Ryszard Riedel / Vocals
- Beno Otręba / Bass
- Jerzy Piotrowski / Drums
- Adam Otręba / Guitar
- Jerzy Styczyński / Guitar
- Paweł Berger / Piano
Godspeed!