Have a safe and happy holidays, stop in on Boxing Day for our usual sale and see you all in 2018!Ĭarla Dal Forno – The Garden (Blackest Ever Black) Thanks to everyone who came in over the year and bought records from us, it means the world to us. That’s right, this is our final transmission of 2017. There were just too many great things in this week to skip them since there won’t be another list until the new year. He would then team up with ex-Zao (and former Magma) keyboardist François Cahen in Faton Bloom during the mid-80s.Ok, I hadn’t planned on such a whopper of a news letter, but why not go out with a bang! This week brings you our staff top picks of the year AND a pretty massive new arrival list as well. Malherbe would next record an album with Emeric in 1981, though it would only see limited release on the GAS/Ottersongs label. Bloom is a phenomenal album, offering yet another look at the remarkable talent that was Gong. Malherbe's epic 'Suite a tout de suite' closes: an eclectic mix of acoustic guitar, sax and electric piano. Emeric's 'Dan Dan' is the lone non-Malherbe composition, and chiefly features his stellar guitar playing. Malherbe and Kimberly both offer vocals on 'Give A Chance To To-Morrow ' the song and its lyrics veer toward the Gong canon, offering a not-so-serious take on some seriously good music. 'Whiskers,' featuring Peter Kimberley on bass, presents a more formal structure, but one similarly electric and very melodic these are rich, complex ensemble arrangements that never get fussy. Anchored by Jano Padovani on drums and Winston Berkeley on bass, soloists Malherbe, guitarist Yan Emeric Vagh and keyboardist Mico Nissim all deliver perfectly-executed performances. If you thought Gong's Gazeuse! was a jam, look no further than this record for more. After a few opening honks, 'Bateau-vole' ('Flying boat') leaps off the groove, revealing a most capable fusion band. Back in Paris in the late 70s, Malherbe-or rather 'Bloomdido Bad de Grass,' as he was known in Gong-formed a band of his own, and recorded an album named after his moniker, Bloom, for Tapioca Records. No matter: Malherbe spent the next decade playing wind instruments with Gong, eventually parting ways after an album into Gong's so-called Pierre Moerlen era. Legend has it that, in the late 60s, Daevid Allen found Didier Malherbe playing a flute and living in a cave in Deya, Majorca (though they'd met before in Paris in 1967).

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