Clearlight
Forever Blowing Bubbles
*Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese..2024 stock* "Forever Blowing Bubbles" is a progressive rock album by Clearlight, origianly released in 1975 on Virgin Records in the UK. After the success of "Clearlight Symphony," Cyrille Verdeaux was invited to record a follow-up. He decided to work with a full band, featuring musicians like bassist Joël Dugrenot and former King Crimson violinist David Cross. Recorded at Virgin's M…
Clear Light Symphony
Cyrille Verdeaux is a classical trained keyboard player who plays organ in Babylone, a band from the Rock pas Dégénéré collective, related to the Actuel magazine, at the beginning of the 1970’s. In 1972 the band splits and Verdeaux joins Barricade for six months. In 1973, Cyrille records a demo of one of his own compositions for piano. Actuel’s music journalist –who also plays bass in Dragon- Jean-Pierre Lentin suggests Verdeaux shall send his work to the new-born UK label Virgin.That same year …
Clearlight Symphony
A long overdue gathering. For more than half a century, Cyrille Verdeaux's Clearlight project has occupied one of the strangest and most overlooked positions in the landscape of 1970s European progressive music - a French ensemble whose foundational works were recorded in England, issued by Virgin, and shaped, in no small part, by the orbit of Gong. Now, for the first time, Esoteric collects the five essential Clearlight albums into a single remastered 5CD clamshell box, with a new booklet essay…