Rock On! Wednesday, 16 april 2025 – Clivage, Flute & Voice, Osjan, Magic Carpet, Vasant Rai & Ananda Shankar

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s – Dan’s pick of the week: Clivage (Mixtus Orbis), Flute & Voice (Imaginations Of Light), Osjan (Ksiega Deszczu), Magic Carpet (Magic Carpet), Vasant Rai (Autumn Song) & Ananda Shankar (Missing You – a Musical Discovery of India).

Clivage was een Frans etno/jazz-rockensemble dat tussen 1977 en 1978 twee albums uitbracht op Gratte-Ciel. Bandleider André Fertier liet de naam herleven voor nog een release op label-dochter F.L.V.M. in 1985.

Prog Archives review: “This is Clivage’s unmistakable awesome release. Definitely a reminiscence of best things ever offered in fusion jazz but all the elements are sublimated into a high class ethno-epic symphony. This is almost exclusively instrumental, making a large part to a brass ensemble. Technical, jazzy felt piano playing also have a great mention. Andre Fertier’s keyobards parts are very similar in style to Cyrile Verdeaux’s (Clearlight) in his most symphonic moments.

This musical adventure is divided into different movements but composed as one long title, without transitions. It starts as a structured, catchy epic symphonic, majestic composition (with classic piano playing, almost medieval brass sequences) then it carries on an obsessed, uncontrolled jamming session, including ethnic percussions, splendid, grandiose oboe / sax combinations, always in a very symphonic, prog-y jazz mood. Some “spectral” female voices are added to the mix during the last movement. The tension gets higher, the trip out musical background reaches the soul to finish in an orchestral “orgy”. Freak out symphonic rock that can ravish all progressive fans (from space rock, to fusion jazz and symphonic).”

Wednesday, Wednesday, 2 April 2025 12:00 noon CET Brussels – 11 a.m. GMT London. Repeated: 16:00 & 20:00 hrs CET Brussels, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. GMT London
Ends: 12 midnight CET Brussels, 11 p.m. GMT London.