Peter Giger and Family of Percussion from 1976 by request

 

I posted the later album Sunday Palaver, here. To repeat quickly, Swiss Peter Giger was the drummer for the formidable early kraut fusion band Dzyan, that still blows me away when I listen to it today. Other than the first Giger/Lenz/Marron album Beyond, from 1976, the remainder of his material disappoints me. Family of Percussion was founded by Trilok Gurtu and made a bunch of LPs too, but on his own Giger made an album with the same name in 1976 which is the one posted here. So I guess technically this album is not a part of the band FoP's discography at all.

First track called Mistral gives you an indication of this, mostly percussion, some improvisations, not much actual music therefore:

I forgot I posted this one too with Dauner.