Cro Magnon – Zapp! (Belgium – 1992) [Avant-Prog] @320K

A band of happy crazy Belgians, formers UNIVERS ZERO or MAXIMALISTS! members have created a new urban chamber rock music: cycles of string instruments and saxophone with amazing rhythms take you far, very far, to unexplored territories.
-Musea-

Acoustic, electric, atomique and electric. This is urban chamber music, inspired by the avant-garde, influenced by many cultures. At times funny and intense, at others relaxing. Jacques TATI meets Terry RILEY in Hungary. The band is hard to categorise. Not acoustic, not classical, not central or eastern European – but certainly a bit of all these with a good dose of revolutionary rhythms, humour and unusual harmonies thrown in.
-Carbon 7-

Composed and arranged Belgian-school instrumental ensemble pieces, with more electronic and sampled sounds added (to good effect). Very precise and neat work, with some great parts and generally all very listenable and considered. Good variety – and when it is good it is very very good indeed.
-ReR-

Stefan Coltura: violin
Rudy Mollekens: bass guitar
Koen Van Roy: soprano, alto and baritone sax
Rik Verstrepen: violin, keyboards
Geert Waegeman: keyboards, sampling, violin, guitar

Tracklist:

01 – Sahib
02 – Skre
03 – Tears for fears
04 – The beauty and the beast
05 – Cleo
06 – La luna trista
07 – Kongo ! (Sample in right panel)
08 – Jacques Tati – Part 1
09 – Jacques Tati – Part 2
10 – Suspendu
11 – Juppy juppy
12 – Zafstak
13 – Treponema

(No covers included)