This reissues a 80s sampler of underground artists, including Tom Cora and Hans Reichel, Officer, Guigou Chenevier, Ptose, Family Fodder, Soixante Etages, Pierre Bastien, J-F Pauvros & others. All tracks unavailable elsewhere. [In Poly Sons]

"Led by Dominique GRIMAUD ("Un Certain Rock Français"), VIDEO-AVENTURES is the gathering of numerous musicians hard-to-classify, such as Gilbert ARTMANN or Cyril LEFEBVRE... They offer a music full of references and winks to Erik SATIE, CAPTAIN...

This is a rather interesting album, as Vincent (aka Jean-Claude Pognant) was the owner of the legendary French Crypto/Arcane label, as well as the discoverer/manager of Ange. Keyboardist/co-leader of Ange, Christian Decamps, provided all of the ...

French progressive rock band with instrumentation oriented around keyboard/violin/guitar (in that order of prominence) setup...Their best is probably Messe En Re Mineur, which is a single 40 minute track on two sides of an LP.

"Sort of a chamber..

A "Zeuhl supergroup" of sorts, this combined musicians from Magma & Heldon into a heavy progressive band that drew it's initial inspiration from Magma, but had their own sound. Big names here include Bernard Paganotti, Patrick Gauthier, Michel Ettori...

After the 2nd Sebastian Hardie album, the band broke up and half the band, along with two new musicians formed Windchase (named after the 2nd Hardie album). Windchase only released this one album, but it is essentially a continuation of the sound that ...

"This band from the late 1970's plays an instrumental progressive music full of fineness and contrast. Its compositions are very well constructed, including many themes full of detours and surprises as well as rich harmonies. Can be compared to Camel...

"...Zao also exists in various formulae, as evidenced by "Ethnic Trio Live" (2008). Here are nine pieces recorded live, Gerard Prevost being aptly replaced by programming. The three musicians play a brand of ethnic free-jazz, based on afro-american...

Zao were probably the best known and the top pure fusion band to emerge from France in the 70's, releasing a number of classic albums. What a treat to have this recording of Zao live at Jacky Barbier's legendary L'Ouest de la Grosne Club from December...

1975 release from this French fusion band that was their last with Yochk'o Seffer. They recorded this with a string quartet to excellent effect; Yochk'o liked the sound so much that when he left, he enlised the same string quartet on his classic...