
ALPHA CENTAURI
alpha centauri 1976
un groupe français de prog dans la lignée de mona lisa, ange, carpe diem, atoll,il existe une réédition italienne plutôt rare, dommage que musea ne si colle pas
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https://rs337tl4.rapidshare.com/#!downl ... 6E4881|0|0Alpha du Centaure is an accomplished instrumental jazz-rock trio, based in Paris, and comprised of Jonathan Dickinson (drums), Olivier Koechlin (acoustic bass) and Jean-Pierre Richard (electric guitars). Supposedly, there is some sort of connection between these fellows and the far stranger French arty jazz-rock group Pataphonie, but I do not know what it is. Contact is their only LP, as far as I know, and it is a privately-issued, low-budget affair with humorously lame cover art. Richard is a pretty fine guitarist - he plays long jazzy solos, and uses fuzzboxes, phase shifters, and other effects in an interesting way. He's perhaps a bit like Bill Connors in that he likes to combine Hendrix-like distortion with bebop-like phrasing. The bassist and drummer are good enough - perhaps a bit timid, though - and the music never really takes off into the realms of psychy free jazz or Mahavishnu-oid slugfest like you might think it would. Strangely, three of the four long tracks are taken in the same meter, a moderate to uptempo 6/8. The pieces are, for the most part, long, loose and jammy (minor keys predominate!) - this is much closer to jazz, in spirit, than progressive rock, though most prog / fusion fans would find something to like on this LP. Fans of ECM-type stuff will really dig this one, despite its low-budget production values. -- Dave Wayne
Et bretons de Guipavas.
j'ai fait une correction au dessus la bio et le nom des musiciens n'était pas celle du bon groupe, c'est pas facile de trouver des infos sur eux, désolé