Coke Tales .....

while preparing the stock for my new online record store with a name borrowed from this place here I discovered having a double copy of this French Fusion LP by Laurent Cokelaere from 1983 and immediately recorded the whole thing.
Bassman Cokelaere is accompanied by a big group of musicians. Most of these are completely unknown to me, but I realy adore their work : )
A juicy and heterogenous gem in my humble opinion. Listen and please let me know what you think about it. (link in comments)

And of course, if you're not just a downloader, but do love music played from grooves carved into plastic plates - come and visit GROWING BIN RECORDS opening VERY soon. free shipping and tons of soundclips guaranteed.
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Cheers, Basso

Disco Frog?

Paris France Transit is a Didier Marouani project from 1982. Kind of a cross-genre exercise with some tracks fitting the cosmic disco mold and others sounding like The Wall era Pink Floyd. Marouani (Ecama on this release) was in good company with a fairly large crew of talented musicians helping with the sound.

Paris France Transit

Psychedelic Soundtrack

Cyrille Verdeaux and friends (Christian Boulé, Tim Blake, etc) formed this one-off group for the purpose of providing a soundtrack to an experimental psychedelic film by Pierre Clementi called Visa de Censure N° X. The music ranges from typical mid 70s psyche rock in the Cosmic Couriers vein to free psyche jazz experiments. This is the only lp in my collection with credits for Transgalactic Voice, Tortured and Backtracked Guitar, and Big Dry Beans (?).


Delired Cameleon Family

Golden Haired Flutterby

Back to France with Richard Vimal. Migrations was Vimal's second lp, released in 1978. All tracks are instrumentals featuring guitars and synthesizers.

Migrations

Hydravion N° 2

Besombes and Cooky Rhinoceros returned to the studio in 1978 and 1979 to record their final tracks as Hydravion. The sound is a bit more experimental this time with a couple tracks sounding like small theater pieces. New member, Dolores De Las Palmeras adds her voice to a couple tracks. There is a new bassist, Patrick Woindrich, and drummer, Bernard Wantier. Christ Saint Roch is back but only on vocals. The flute on Singaraja is by Jean-Pierre Le Normand who also lends vocals to a couple tracks.

Stratos Airlines

Ose's Frog Colony

A French progressive workout penned by music critic, Hervé Picart in 1978. This is a concept piece concerning a colonial settlement on another planet. Richard Pinhas and François Auger of Heldon came on board to help out with guitars, synthesizers and drums so the music has a definite Heldon feel to it. Picart is also playing guitars and synths. All tracks are instrumentals and the music projects a space bound sound.

Adonia

Cosmic Aviators

Another Besombes experiment, this time with his band Hydravion. This is the first of two lps recorded at the end of the 7os, this one in 1977. Three guitarists in the band including Philippe himself, still the sounds of synthesizers predominate. 5 tracks ranging in duration from 3½ to 10½ minutes.

Philippe Besombes - Synthesizers, Mellotron, Electric Piano and Guitars
Patrick Verbeke - Guitar
Cooky Rhinoceros - Guitar
Christ Saint Roch - Bass and Synthe Bass
Pierre Bataillet - Drums
Dominique Esnault - Drums
Christian Werbrouck - Special Effects

Hydravion

Animal War

A production library beast from Philippe Besombes, circa 1982. 11 tracks featuring synthesizers, drums, guitar, electric piano and a bass flute with rhythms ranging from ska and reggae to military marches.

La Guerre Des Animaux

Faster Than Sound!

Another Massiera and Torelli gem. The guys were pretty active back then. Find the details here. Once you downloaded the LP you'll be missing track B2. I didn't rip it because I couldn't stand it and still can't! But I think those of you who dig some good "space disco not space disco" stuff will be pretty happy with the rest of it anyway...
cheers,
Basso