Here's a cool little requested jazzy fusion album from 1983 when artists (especially in France and Germany) were still capable of progressive and intelligent compositions in this genre and format.
It's very similar to the recent Pandemonium and Francois Jeanneau opuses of the 80s showing the same now-lost taste for angular riffs or melodic patterns and bizarro chord changes to throw you off every once in a while. As usual for jazz artists there are the usual long solos which are kept to a relatively short 2-3 minute total timeline. The artist is a clarinetist and saxophonist and put out albums every couple of years starting with this first one and you can see he was productive all the way through the CD era to the current digital era.
On the release information note that the familiar Barthelemy appears here on guitars, Texier on bass, and keyboardist is Siegfried Kessler, well-known in the French jazz-fusion-prog scene (from his works with Serge Bringolf (e.g. Agboville) and Yochk'o Seffer.
The title track has a diminished chord intensity that to me recalls a little bit old French prog-masters Carpe Diem, minus the synths and airy vocals:
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Thank you Julian, very much appreciated!
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