Jackie Giordano as Jose Pharos and Paule Giner in 1979's Boucles Rhythmiques, lossless limited time

 

The kind of funky library music that just makes me and probably so many others out there weep with its wonderfully exciting and original sounds and rhythms, it was left off the Giordano collection (which was by no means complete) way back when because it was hidden under the moniker Jose Pharos, a two-off for this alias I guess.  The record's listed here.

The overall library sound of Cap Horn, with the synthesizer swirls, the pumping patterns, the electric piano bashing out chords, plus vibes installed above for the melodic sound, is just so so masterful:

The same goes for the remarkable sound, so wah-wah warm and uplifting, along with that clever chromatic modulation within the verse section, of San Antonio:

Admittedly, the track does go on for a little bit too long for some reason.

The other album of Jose Pharos and from the same year is this one, called Obsession, Catastrophes. Oddly enough it seems uninspired and mostly quite simplistic in comparison as if it were made up of leftover material that was never developed fully, added to which there is some experimental drony electronic material, for example each track usually only has from two to a handful of chords, usually sustained and usually unadorned with extra instruments, whether electric or not.

To this day and probably forever my favourite from him is the miraculously original and progressively written Paysages I.