dope french prog

heldon magma and so forth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai4rDv2-z9Q

The Bladerunner thing has sent me on a big Vangelis tip which led me to a bunch of European prog and krautrock.

if you haven't heard vangelis' last album with his first band, (aphrodite's child 666) you're in for a treat. but french is a barbaric language to a greek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXbrajXLncI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJl3dY8jDc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtmL5K2p3pA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cg9MGteiPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5v4ptDmq8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lxSUr38AZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmrv-aDSGto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_JKwgv_Lz0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8g5nn0qcEo

hahaha as soon as I saw the thread title I figured Dominique was about to bomb it

I (shamefully) just heard 4 Visions in full for the first time a couple months ago and I can say it definitely lives up to the hype. Might have to check out their other albums now.

That Weidorje album is mint.

absolutely. wish it was recorded better. love how they replaced all the nonsensical Zeuhl lyrics with "hey, yaaa hey ya hey" and "dootle doodle doo dee dee doo"

i know ange are famous for their harlequin concept album bullshit, but this is the only song of theirs i've heard that i actually like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHzfdjYV5b0

oh, and hey, this is the perfect excuse to post like the only youtube video i've ever uploaded! ever wonder what magma crossed with the b-52s would sound like?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti_ZxEKSGGU

That Weidorje album is mint.

― Doran

they've got a great second album's worth of material, too:

paga group - mitchinoku
paga group - une parcelle d'urantia
jean-phillipe goude - les saturnales
weidorje - kolinda (i edited the bass solo slightly to get it down to 8:51)
patrick gauthier - nor

these are all weidorje songs recorded, essentially, by weidorje. honestly, i prefer it to the first.

More on a stoner jazz-rock vibe, Herbe Rouge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwouM9cYmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apT5B6moM6U

From 2013, Rhùn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-6PrlYDYXg

been really digging that 666 album lately. just the right balance between bonkers prog and bonkers psychedelia.

none doper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5NjAeKNE0

Thanks for the heads up!

I guess this is as good a place as any to pass on this Magma news while I'm here: Retrospektïw I, II & III to be reissued next month on vinyl by Southern Lord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE9z9TWcoOI

super freego is so fucking rad

good stuff here, thanks all

that Shub Niggurath record rules, just picked it up last month

super freego is so fucking rad

― kurt schwitterz

big ups to kurt schwitterz

in the meantime, check this shit out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwaYcgGYlXk

This is what Jannick Top was doing when he wasn't in Magma - sounding like an evil disco version of his old band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7SoHeZr8M

is Eskaton back or something? I found this, apparently from 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9301jheDEY

new album out a few weeks ago:

https://www.discogs.com/Eskaton-So-good-/release/11004724

It seems like this is the same band (minus the female singers), but uh...what exactly they trying to do here??

wow, that eskaton is one of the all-time shitty reunion albums.

...in fact i don't think i've heard a reunion record so shitty since heldon's "only chaos is real"!

have you heard it? that discogs link is the only evidence I can find that it even exists.

it looks like they have some more songs from it on their youtube?

hahaha a performance of "Automute" confirms that this is the same band, in some sense at least

this is really bizarre

anyone heard this record in its entirety?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7fkmss0XkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai4rDv2-z9Q

quebec emmène moi ailleurs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_FJWO-jNUQ