From discogs:
English group, formed in 1972 by Dick Crouch. "The group's music exhibits the influences of jazz, rock, and funk, and classical, folk, and ethnic music; its style characterized by the extensive use of Brazilian percussion instruments." (Mark Gilbert, in The New Grove dictionary of jazz, 1988)
Band is led by the percussionist, a slight oddity, whose name as mentioned is Dick Crouch.
This is basically soft fusion again, very similar to Danish Bazaar, but lacking in the ethnic element which is always, at least for me, a good thing. They made a surprising number of records in that heyday of fuzak tempered somewhat by the fact they recycled songs from one album to the next all over the place, quite promiscuously, to use that wonderful and evocative word, hopefully also an indication of their personal lives of the time.
The Bell Tree, from Kandeen Love Song (1977), a composition by the leader Crouch:
Three Blind Mice from 1983's Look Inside:
All 4 albums, enjoy:
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bonus, the rare Paz at Chichester:
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Never heard of it, i will try, at least the first.
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Julian, I have always loved Kandeen Love Song, which reminds me a lot of the Australian group Crossfire, mostly because of the interplay between percussion and soprano sax (although the Aussie band had much more punch and originality, with Jim Kelly on guitar). The other Paz albums were never quite as good.
ReplyDeleteit's nice that our tastes coincide once again. Two more later albums, if you're interested: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Ao1G/hSNoEHUeL
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for posting these! I stumbled across "Look Inside" a few days ago and was hoping to find some more from PAZ.
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