Monday, 5 January 2026

Some Requests: Eddy Palermo's 1985 Jazz Fusion Mood and Gerard Marais's 1986 BBG (Big Band de Guitares) [FLAC limited time only]

 






Eddy Palermo is an Italian guitarist. This album appears with his ensemble discogged here.  It's quite light fusion with pleasant sounds, typical of the era, all instrumental. 

A Song for You:


I threw in the album called Eddy Loves Frank, made up of big band versions of Frank Zappa. It's a little bit interesting, note the Regyptian Strut cover:


Unfortunately I was not too pleased with some of the other versions, such as the immortal Echidna's Arf.  And it oddly enough ends with a rendition of America the Beautiful, rather than 'America the empire wannabe'.  I guess it kinda makes sense considering it came out in 2009.

Gerard Marais, who was in my Instants Chavires with Pifarely posted so long ago, is typical French progressive jazz, as you can easily discern and detect form my sample called Sagittaire:




Saturday, 3 January 2026

Some Requests: Claude Rodap-Fregate Orchestra's 1986 Syn-Ka

 


October Country:

This is just fantastic, like a reminder of Springtime and new, free flowing energy :)

Alert! We have a genre-hopping, phase-shifting, strange and wonderful little UFO here >>> cool proto-prog morphing into space-disco jams with multi-synth leads: Cosmic!

Take the Steve Robinson - Its A Lie Lp, blended with elements of Michel Magne's - Moshe Mouse Crucifixion and Zeus B.Held.... mix in Mort Garson ..............out of this world, yes.

Just look at that album cover, we know they were time-travelers.

...3rd song, 'Synthetic Love', that repeating synth-chorus and bossa nova beat brings to mind a final hurrah, like a last celebration, sailing away from everything we ever knew into the new.

...next song, 'Fregate', continues the vibe with a solemn but hopeful piano refrain and surf-like sounds....love it.

First track:




Thursday, 1 January 2026

Some Requests: Vingioi - Very Well, from 1979 Italia




 Artist information here (real name with too many i's is Vincenzo Gioieni. Note that the earlier 1976 library album is unavailable digitally (so far).  Anyone have it too though to share?  Presumably the same style, of mixed library music but nicely performed and very typical, dare I say generic, for ex., Septic: