Jean-François Pauvros & Gaby Bizien - Pays Noir FLAC

You can listen to the whole record on the label's web site. Expecting something similar to the excellent No Man's Land (SouffleContinu say it's in the same spirit as that) I was a mite disappointed. The first 13 minutes amount to a music closer to the LMC ramblings of people like Roger Turner or Tony Oxley (plus guitarist), so not really to my taste (and that I've heard dozens of albums of that sort of thing). Only after that does it get at all creative. Yes, I know that's part way through the second track (which is actually a least 3 different pieces cobbled together), but the shift of style is quite startling, from difficult free jazz bric-a-brac to psychedelic brilliance just like that! The final track's a curio too, reminds me of Ilitch and ZNR in a way. I could well do with a release of material in the vein of those last 8 minutes.