Zao (Zeuhl band)
| Zao | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | France |
| Genre (s) | Progressive Rock , Zeuhl , Fusion |
| founding | 1973 |
| resolution | 1977 |
| Founding members | |
| François Cahen | |
| Yochk'o Seffer | |
| Joël Dugreno | |
| Jean-Yves Rigaud | |
| Jean-My Truong | |
| Mauricia Plato | |
| Last occupation | |
| François Cahen | |
| Yochk'o Seffer | |
| Gérard Prévost | |
| Akihisa Tsuboy | |
| François Causse | |
| Cynthia Saint-Ville | |
| former members | |
| Didier Lockwood | |
Zao (also spelled ZAO ) was a French progressive rock and fusion band that was formed in 1973.
Band history
Two former Magma musicians, the saxophonist and clarinetist Yochk'o Seffer and the pianist François Cahen , formed the band. They had left Magma after their second album 1001 ° Centigrades because they could not find enough freedom there to realize their musical ideas. In the meantime, Didier Lockwood was also part of the cast. Zaos style leaned initially to the Zeuhl at the early magma, he took over time more and more elements of jazz and fusion to. The band name was taken from Kabbalah .
After the band broke up in 1977 there were at least two reunions by Zao: in 1994 for the production of the Akhenaton album and in 2004 for a tour during which the 2007 live album In Tokyo was created, on which more Zeuhl elements can be found again.
Discography
- 1973: Z = 7L ( Vertigo Records )
- 1975: Osiris (Disjuncta / Urus Records)
- 1975: Shekina ( RCA Records )
- 1976: Kawana (RCA)
- 1977: Typhareth (RCA)
- 1994: Akhenaton ( Musea )
- 2003: Live! (Musea)
- 2007: In Tokyo (Musea)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zao in the “ Zeuhl Guide ” on the baby blue pages
- ↑ Reviews of In Tokyo on the baby blue pages