ANDRE FERTIER & CLIVAGE-KASSIOPEE, LP, 1985, FRANCE

Following Jim's post of this fantastic French ethno jazz unit's debut "Regina Astris" and my post of their mindblowing follow-up "Mixtus Orbis", here's their third outing from six years on. While Kassioppee might lack a degree of the ecstatically outward bound momentum of their earlier era, Fertier and co.'s command of this aesthetic trajectory (one which places them in a lineage that spans from Scandinavian exponents like Archimedes Badkar and Piirpauke to Italy's Aktuala by way of The Entourage Music And Theater Ensemble) is never less than masterful.

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