Mamadeus (Nether, 1983)

Here's a painfully beautiful album from the Netherlands that seems not so well known, with sophisticated compositions and a most delicate interplay of chamber music and folky acoustic sounds.  They made only one work, in 1983, but they seem derived from the slightly more productive band called Flairck, who made quite a few LPs starting strong in 1978 but thereafter degenerating into new age.  I could sample any track randomly and it would sound good in the context of this blog. But here's the one called Atlantis:





I'm reminded of another old favourite, Kolibri's Winterserenade.  Not only is the great and almost impossible beauty of this music painful for me to hear, the thought that this sort of art is now forgotten and abandoned makes it doubly painful.