Visitors Visitors

For legal reasons Visitors used the alternate name Force 5 in the USA. Prog-rock with extra-terrestrial thematic, one of the main JPM’s acts…

Here is one of the most underrated French albums, but also one of the most sought after, finally reissued by Musea. Visitors was actually a one-shot band gathered around producer Jean-Pierre Massiera, and including about twenty musicians. Besides the rhythm section, the stress was here put on the keyboards (Hammond organ & Mini-Moog) and on choirs that remind of Vanilla Fudge. The band performs a sophisticated music based on numerous breaks and refined developments. Let's also mention beautiful parts by Didier Lockwood's violin, who was here playing for the first time on an album. The music goes from a Yes kind of Progressive rock to elaborated Seventies British bands (Cressida, Gracious!) and to the beginnings of jazz-rock.

Rock Milestones - ABBA's The Visitors movie was released Mar 27, 2007 by the Navarre Corporation studio. The Visitors was the ninth and final album by the Swedish pop legends, and in many ways the music reflects the turbulent emotions the band was going through at the time. Rock Milestones - ABBA's The Visitors movie This DVD critically assesses the album and discusses the musical legacy left by maybe the best pop group to come out of the seventies. Rock Milestones - ABBA's The Visitors video Drawing on rare footage of Abba in performance, this powerful and penetrating film features the impartial and forthright views of a leading team of critics and working musicians.