Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Oreille Électrique / The Electric Ear (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 329.66 Mb + 91.01Mb (Scans) | 54:17
Fusion, Jazz-Rock | Country: France | Label: Cuneiform Records - Rune 447
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 329.66 Mb + 91.01Mb (Scans) | 54:17
Fusion, Jazz-Rock | Country: France | Label: Cuneiform Records - Rune 447
For over 40 years, Parisian composer and drummer Patrick Forgas has been working and creating a distinctive take on progressive jazz/rock, and he has been leading Forgas Band Phenomena for over 20 years. We are really happy and pleased to once again be working with this eclectic, electric fusion / progressive rock band on their sixth release and fourth for Cuneiform.
The ensemble’s many long time fans certainly know what to expect, as the group’s base of ‘Canterbury sound’ stylings in a orchestrally arranged setting with jazz solos continues here, stronger and with even more maturity than ever.
Helping to contribute to the great confidence in the performances is the fact that the majority of the band has been stable and rehearsing for over a decade, with only two changes made in the last few years. In 2013, new guitarist Pierre Schmidt made his debut with FBP in a 20-minute live in the studio segment filmed for the Romantic Warriors 3 - Canterbury Tales documentary. Work on new material was halted when Forgas suffered a health setback (vestibular neuritis) which inspired the album’s title.
Another personnel change occurred in 2015 when the band’s long-standing bassist Kengo Mochizuki had to return to his native Japan. Thankfully, an ideal replacement came in the shape of Gérard Prévost, a legend on the French progressive and fusion scene through his work with the likes of Zao, David Rose and Rahmann alongside appearances on albums by Heldon, Jean-Philippe Goude and Forgas’s own 1977 album Cocktail! Rehearsals then resumed until the new line-up was finally ready to enter the studio in late 2017.
L’Oreille Électrique can be safely recommended to any fan of exhilarating, electric jazz!
Track List:
1. Délice Karmâ (Karmic Delights). 10:01
2. Septième Ciel (Seventh Heaven). 10:04
3. L’Oreille Électrique (The Electric Ear). 12:02
4. Crème Anglaise (Custard Sauce). 9:37
5. Pierre Angulaire (Corner Stone). 12:33
- Patrick Forgas / drums
- Karolina Mlodecka / violin
- Pierre Schmidt / guitar
- Sébastien Trognon / tenor, alto & soprano saxophones, flute
- Dimitri Alexaline / trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone
- Gérard Prévost / bass
- Igor Brover / piano, electric piano
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Forgas Band Phenomena / L’Oreille Électrique (The Electric Ear)
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EAC extraction logfile from 7. December 2018, 21:01
Forgas Band Phenomena / L’Oreille Électrique (The Electric Ear)
Used drive : ATAPI iHAS124 E Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 10:00.43 | 0 | 45042
2 | 10:00.43 | 10:04.04 | 45043 | 90346
3 | 20:04.47 | 12:01.57 | 90347 | 144478
4 | 32:06.29 | 9:37.44 | 144479 | 187797
5 | 41:43.73 | 12:33.29 | 187798 | 244301
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