![]() ![]() Icing on the cake is the wonderful Jerry Goodman on violin. Gary Husband returns for this latest release, although purely on lead synths this time around and the drum throne is occupied by Simon Phillips. ![]() On Proto Mundi Antoine Fafard not only takes on the bass duties, but all the guitar parts. As details started to emerge and with just three tracks, first thoughts were that Proto Mundi was to be an EP, but perish the thought, with two tracks topping the 20-minute mark and the final cut 10-minutes, this is a full blooded release. So the announcement earlier this year of a new album was certainly something to keep an eye open for and might offer the chance to write a more in-depth review. Sphère arrived late in the year and due to a lack of time I was only able to write a few word for one of our periodical ADA Review updates. One such album appeared last year from composer and bassist Antoine Fafard, along with drumming legend Gary Husband and guitarist Jerry De Villiers Jr. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, there’s a wealth of great music being released and the journey continues, however every now and then, one album turns up and relights those early sparks. So what on earth has this got to do with Antoine Fafard’s 2017 release, I hear you ask? Well with the passage of time, life’s trials and tribulations turned that enthused teenager into a world weary, cynic, but still harbouring thoughts of rekindling that early passion. I like two types of music – I’m diverse 0)… And that trend continued in my later teens when I discovered a trickier kind of music called fusion, jazz-rock and/or variations on that theme. Same week and you are round a friends house and he plays you something different and you think I like that too – what’s that music called – progressive rock. So the adventure began with the first one – and suddenly I like rock, that’s what I like. In reality it didn’t really matter – it was all fascinating at that point. Excitedly travelling each Saturday morning to the, then plentiful record shops to buy one album, but which one was always the dilemma. I can still remember that voyage of discovery, when as a young teenager, I started to unearth the world of music. ![]()
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