Les Deux Guitars

Les Fleurs de Pavot - Les Fleurs de Pavot
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC (tracks): 205 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Underground Masters # UM009 | Country/Year: France 2006, 1968
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country | Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Psych Pop

…Originally released in 1968, the now impossible to find self titled album by Les Fleurs De Pavot is considered as the first psychedelic/hippie record from France. A veil of mystery surrounded the real origins of the band at the time… according to their press release, they were formed by a couple of hippies, Groovy Pat from London and Jesus from San Francisco who met at some Soft Machine shows in Paris… the reality was more unglamorous: Les Fleurs De Pavot were in fact a twist band called Bourgeois De Calais, transformed into exploitation acid-eater hippies by their manager JP Rawson…

Art Zoyd´s first studio album is one of those "lost" gems that is too rare to attrack a wide (even in progressive rock) range of listeners but way too good to be left aside…

Feeling that Harmonium had released in L'Heptade (1976) the best album it could possibly make, its leader, Serge Fiori, disbanded the group in early 1978. At the same time, Richard Séguin also saw his folk group, les Séguins, fold after the release of its peak album, Récolte de Rêves. Fiori had a few songs that the Harmonium musicians had already begun to work on; Séguin also had a few left in his files. The two teamed up, writing three more pieces together and recording them with the last Harmonium lineup. The resulting album is indeed weaker than L'Heptade, but it is not the casual one-time collaboration one could expect. Conceived as a group effort (all the players were involved in the arrangements), it has a strong personality, the identities of both singer/songwriters melding gracefully…

Orchestre National De Jazz & Claude Barthélemy - Admirabelamour (2003) {Label Bleu LBLC 6659}
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© 2003 Label Bleu | LBLC 6659
Jazz / Modern Big Band / Progressive Jazz

Guitarist Barthelemy has spent much of his career working with orchestras, both jazz and classical, and on this album he teams up again with the 13-piece Orchestre National De Jazz. Stylistically various, the programme here ranges from wild free-form to tightly arranged passages, sometimes in pastiche mood. This is exciting, exploratory Euro-jazz.