Platina - The Girl With The Flaxen Hair (super price!)
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MIO30
The Platina were a popular Israeli jazz group who released two albums in the early/mid 70's. This is compiled from the surviving tapes of their never released third album, live versions of some of the lost studio tracks plus some bonus material. Some of this is kinda too straightforward jazz for my taste; very good but not really anything that makes it stand out. Having said that, there is definitely a full lp's worth of really good, phase-shifty 1976 jazz/rock fusion, with flute/alto sax, Fender Rhodes, guitar, bass, drums and wordless female vocals. I hear elements of bands like Fermata, Jazz Q, Perigeo, Finnforest, Dedalus, Weather Report, etc. At their best, this is energetic-yet-pastoral fusion.