Gryphon

A French cross between GRYPHON and STEELEYE SPAN. The songs are mostly old French traditional songs. The head of Malicorne is singer-guitarist-composer Gabriel Yacoub.

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
There is something about the music on Malicorne's album `Le Bestiaire' (roughly translated to `The Animals') that transports me to another space and time.

Austin, TX-based American progressive rock band Proud Peasant have forged a reputation for combining classic and modern sounds together, drawing comparisons to Mike Oldfield, Gryphon, Wobbler, and King Crimson, while also incorporating elements of movie and video game soundtracks, metal, thrash, chamber music, avant-garde, and ragtime jazz to create a cinematic mix of sounds.
The band return with "Peasantsongs", a collection of rare and unreleased tracks, featuring their Fruits de Mer covers for the first time on CD, a staggering interpretation of proto-prog band Touch’s Down at Circe’s Place, a gritty live version of King Crimson’s Red from 2015’s VoyagerFest, and music that ranges from European chamber music and prog metal to Chinese classical music…