Back to White, Green and Red with New Faces (1991)

Remember these Bulgarian guys from long, long ago?   They made the magnificent progressive jazz LP called Don Juan (I think) then I bought their other seventies one that preceded that, not realizing they had one more set up their sleeve from much much later.  But they were uncompromising artists, or maybe as was typical for Eastern Europe, cut off from the rest of the world's zeitgeist, because this album sounds very much like it was made in the early 80s, with odd and bizarre chords and ideas mixing the folk melodies that were such a part of slavic jazz or fusion records of the period.  The only concession to the late year is the last song, the title track, but even that one sounds totally out of place in the setting of the year 1991, when Nirvana and alternative were all set to break out into the mainstream and leave old dinos Guns 'n' Roses in the dust.

Really, a stunner, and once again a lesson, that you have to try to complete these artists'   discographies.

The track called Reminiscence, by the keyboardist Peter Jourkov, made me literally scream and metaphorically fall off my chair, yet again: