Wednesday, 19 March 2025

French Canterburylike / Gonglike drummer / composer Patrick Forgas with the 1977 Cocktail album to begin

 




His own discography is here. As you can see 4 albums on his own and 6 more under Forgas Band Phenomenon.

Profile: French prog rock and fusion drummer, singer, instrumentalist. Self-confessed Robert Wyatt devotee, and creator of a unique French twist on the Canterbury sound.

I think it's less Canterbury more Gong with the tendency to remain on one chord and then meander in a spacey manner on top with light sounds, eg breathy singing or flutes.  The title track of his masterpiece called Cocktail, whose hghlight though is the sidelong work My Trip, which reappeared multiple times, reworked, on later albums, and with a demo version on the later CD release with bonus tracks:


Demo version of My Trip is great listening:




In fact, utterly ironically the demo tracks that follow the composed work are the best part of this CD, perhaps because they were written when he was a young man, much more Canterbury like.




5 comments:


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  2. Thank you, Julian, like very much french jazzprog. By the way can you find https://www.discogs.com/master/1481876-Jackie-Orszaczky-Featuring-Graham-Morgan-Peter-Jones-6-And-John-Robinson-Beramiada ?

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    1. it's still here
      https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2022/03/jackie-orszaczky-ex-syrius-beramiada.html

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  3. This was one of the very first albums I bought from Wayside Music back in the day! Excellent record and post

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  4. That's an intriguing combination of styles. Thanks

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