Thursday, April 23, 2009

SOLIS LACUS-S/T, LP, 1975, BELGIUM





Supple and subtly devastating jazz rock that seems to float a few feet off the ground from this offshoot of Placebo, who were effectively Belgium's answer to Nucleus, something that could equally be said about Solis Lacus as well. Thats the sort of factoid guaranteed to assure pricked ears and plastered grins in my social orbit and these cats make it all just sound so bloody effortless; their liquidly expanding and contracting rhythmic sense, elegiac Ian Carr-like trumpet phrasing and overall aerated Rhodes-washed atmospherics causing this at different times to glance off of both Transit Express and Hal Galper as well. Monster caliber.

note: pictured are front covers of both pressings of this album.

Note: link removed as this has now been reissued on Heavenly Sweetness.
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10 comments:

  1. Hanimex 3000April 24, 2009 at 5:15 AM

    seems promising. Thanks!

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  2. Gianni aka Cesare BarbettaApril 25, 2009 at 5:57 AM

    looking great. I am gonna try it.
    thank you

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  3. AnonymousApril 26, 2009 at 9:53 AM

    thank you
    like #3 + 4
    oungli

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  4. nochesamarillasgMay 11, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    hola, write you from |tucumán| (Argentine) |exelente| dials, single had listened to a subject in the radius, thanks for the material, |chris|

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  5. nochesamarillasgMay 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM

    hola,te escribo desde tucumán(argentina) exelente disco,solo había escuchado un tema en la radio,gracias por el material, chris

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  6. tjaptjapSeptember 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM

    Solis Lacus is way cool, thanks for sharing !!!

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  7. AnonymousDecember 1, 2009 at 1:42 AM

    detailed info:

    http://www.michelherr.com/common/cd_pages/solis_lacus.html

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  8. UnknownApril 22, 2011 at 1:03 PM

    thanks for this post. any chance you have michel herr's perspective album, or know where to get it for download?
    thanks,
    BUC

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  9. teamsterOctober 18, 2011 at 11:09 PM

    I've heard this is good so I was looking for it. Thanks!

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  10. AnonymousAugust 20, 2012 at 1:44 PM

    Just out on Heavenly Sweetness (lp + cd)!

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