Alain Bellaiche

• DIGIPACK EDITION

First ever reissue of highly sought after french jazz funk fusion nugget from Alain Bellaïche featuring, Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra), John Hicks (Strata-East) & Fabiano (Fabiano Orchestra). Remastered from the master tapes. Restored artwork + 12 page booklet & Obi Strip A Frenchman who is returning (but who we seem to discover!) from the USA is something unusual. Everything seemed to start out well for Alain Bellaïche: Born in Tunis, childhood in Cannes, studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, his first folk concerts folk in youngsters’ houses and clubs where everyone was well behaved … Then, in 1973, he left for the States. Bellaïche would settled for around ten years, with, as a soundtrack, the two albums that he would record there. Metropolitain, which was the fruit of his collaboration with the Heldon guitarist Alain Renaud, and Sea Fluorescent.

PERSONNEL:

• John Hicks - electric piano
• Wornell Jones - bass
• Jean-François Fabiano - drums & percussions
• Jerry Goodman - electric violin
• Alain Bellaïche - acoustic & electric guitars & vocals

New York, October 1975

TRACKS:

• 01. California
• 02. Saint Andrea
• 03. I'm Angry
• 04. Got My Place In The Country
• 05. Reggae & Western
• 07. Foolin' Myself
• 08. Sun Blues
• 09. Sea Fluorescent
• 10. Armadillo-Botafogo (*)
• 11. Chacha Émotionnel (*)

• (*) Bonus tracks taken from Alain Bellaiche "Kirlian Effect"