Solis Lacus - Solis Lacus (A Special Radio-TV Record)

Solis Lacus - Solis Lacus

Label : SDBAN 

Format : LP - Album - Reissue

Release : 11/03/2022

Style : Jazz - Fusion - Belgian Pride 

Info

Solis Lacus is the cult group around renowned Belgian pianist Michel Herr, a pioneer of electric jazz in the 70's in Europe. Michel Herr rose to international prominence after winning the first prize at the jazz festival in Loosdrecht, The Netherlands, in 1971. He accompanied many European and American jazz stars on foreign tours and ran the group Jazztrack with saxophone player Wolfgang Engstfeld in Germany. At the same time, he set up his own band Solis Lacus, which consisted of Belgian musicians who had all made a name for themselves on the national jazz scene of the 1960s including Richard Rousselet and Bruno Castelluci both from Placebo. Inspired by the reigning jazz-rock sound of the day, Herr expanded his musical vocabulary and started to play electronic keyboards. Solis Lacus recorded its only album in the course of 1974 and 1975, before the members of the group headed in their own direction.

Solis Lacus is considered the European counterpart to sound experimentations of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, or the best albums of the CTI label such as Freddie Hubbard. This is groundbreaking, experimental and funky jazz fusion!

Tracklist

A1. Solis Lacus - Utopic Cities
A2. Solis Lacus - Peace Please
A3. Solis Lacus - Open Air
B1. Solis Lacus - Little Green Man
B2. Solis Lacus - Sea Of Tranquillity
B3. Solis Lacus - Remake