Born to Nigerian parents brought to Algeria, percussionist Guem grew up playing traditional music and trance rhythms from an early age. His family soon initiated him into the secrets of the diwan–ceremonies where many of the participants enter a state of trance.
This live recording captures the great Senegalese band around the time of their finest recordings (Amadou-Tilo and Casamance au Clair de Lune)…
A superb french folk group introducing us to the Andean-Folk music.
This is the second LP of Pachacamac. Is necessary to deepen some aspects as far as andean music is concerned. There's a pretty big leap in the way of dealing with andean music, is an experiment.
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
One of South America’s better groups, El Reloj had an all too brief recording 70’s career and just two albums, their debut being in a much harder rock vein in the Purple line.
Ofra Haza, was an Israeli singer of Yemenite Jewish origin, an actress and international recording artist…
This large-scale work by Theodorakis sets the poems of Pablo Neruda to an orchestral score.
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
There are several albums that I consider as a truly masterpieces of progressive rock and music in general.
Henri Tachan in his first work, especially for those who like traditional french singers Charles Aznavour….
Henri Tachan spends his Catholic boarding school in Notre Dame de Bury, then in a high school in Paris….
With great sensitivity, Gilbert Laffaille often writes songs where you feel pleasure and rhyme collide words (Blame anyone …).