HENRI-MICHEL RASCHLE-DAEMONIA-THE MAGIC TRIP THROUGH YOUR SOUL, LP, 1981, FRANCE

Thanks to blog friend Tony Pradlik, this potently ridiculous and utterly winning lost slab of top tier fromage can now be yours to simultaneously scratch your head and shake your booty to. Regular blog visitors will know by now that I've got a big soft spot for good cheese and the combination of prog and disco is always hard to top in that department, especially when it's of French provenance, like this quasi-satantic little clusterfuck; a pagan Euro disco/prog mongrel of the highest order, which Tony succinctly summarized as sounding like "Goblin meets Horrific Child meets disco style Laibach". I can't vouch for that last bit, but he's right on the money with the rest of it; much of this ploughing a similar furrow to Maledictus Sound/Horrific Child mastermind Jean-Pierre Massiera's furry freaked tweaks on disco from this era, specifically his cheese supreme second self-titled Visitors album from 1981 (posted here a while back), a masterstroke of high camp that this frequently comes within spitting distance of.

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