BAYON-S/T, LP, 1978, GERMANY (DDR)

East Germany's Bayon trafficed in lush, languid and classically inflected folk/prog/world moves and it's a terrain thats precipitously poised between the guileless lovely and the borderline unctuous, though they manage to skirt sticky sweetness more often than not and what does work here, really works a charm; sweeping aside your ironic defenses with intoxicating cascades of sawing strings, aerated flutes and hand drums, especially as the album progresses and the plot thickens. Now and then, rock-ist moves briefly surface within this lubricious cocoon but they almost seem besides the point. Bayon make basking in the borderline overripe and capital "P" pretty seem like a perfectly reasonable end in itself.

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