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Forgas Band Phenomena: Extra-Lucide

Read "Extra-Lucide" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
November 11, 2005

While Soleil 12 (Cuneiform, 2005) was the first album from French drummer/composer Patrick Forgas' Forgas Band Phenomena to receive international distribution, the group had in fact already released two records in the late 1990s on France's Cosmos Music label. Sadly, Roue Libre is out of print; but the group's sophomore effort, Extra-Lucide, is still available and bears revisiting, if for no other reason than providing a different perspective on the nearly twenty-minute “Pieuvre Ã la Pluie" that can also be ...