The unknown Galigai from 1982

Again, a beautiful cover, especially for the times (1982).

Another remarkably unknown but gracefully crafty set of compositions that highly deserve to be better known and heard widely.  The amazing thing here is the fact this quartet plays a mostly acoustic set of instruments but achieves quite an amazing variety of tones and emotions with just those building blocks: acoustic piano (sometimes the electric, or synth), electric guitar, and rhythm section.  Sadly only this one release from this group. I always confuse it with the very similarly named and similarly sounding, but not as good, Masal Galgal album which came out 20 years later.  (Note that Masal was the band of Jean-Paul Prat, who made his own amazing prog composition called Masal earlier, in 1984.)

Sentier des Meilliers (so far as I can tell the last word is a name, not an actual word, also, not a misspelling for Meilleurs as you can see from the scans despite google insisting in its translation pages that the word is a mistake):

The peaceful sound is just heavenly, note the unison electric guitar and acoustic piano playing the melody which is so rarely heard today.  As well the long and drawn-out melody never ceases to amaze me, particularly how it verges into those unexpected arpeggiated punctuations that slice up the track between bass solos.  Really remarkable.