COS Babel LP Canterbury/Zeuhl Prog rock w/Daniel Schell

$

40

The Mutant Sounds website describes the album Babel by the Belgian prog rock band Cos like this: “Serious lump-in-throat jazzy prog beauty of the highest order here, people! Cos were a euphorically sublime Belgian group featuring a pre-Aksaq Maboul Marc Hollander that operated somewhere between the jazz rock magnetic poles of Canterbury and Zeuhl, taking the airy wistfulness of Hatfield And The North from the former and the ecstatic female vocal-driven rubric of early Zao from the latter, though by the time they'd arrived at this, their third album and (for me at least) definitive statement, a distinct disco component was becoming a factor, something that just pushes this from the gorgeous to the level of near-supernatural for me (after all...er...Canterbury disco-prog??), but has also managed to leave those not swayed by the (self-evident, methinks) beauty of a concept like disco-prog less than swept away. Well....phooey to them! This is one of the very pinnacles of Euro prog in my book and Pascal Son one of the greatest female progressive vocalists. Bliss awaits thee...”  A couple other fairly well-known names in this outfit not mentioned above include: Daniel Schell (guitar, flutes, composer), Marc Hollander (organ), Marc Moulin of Placebo (organ), and François Cahen of Magma (piano).

Originally released in Belgium in 1978 or 1979, this copy is a later press released in Germany on the GeeBeeDee label in 1983.  The cover and record are in Ex condition.  (Click on the “me” icon above for info on my grading system.) 

Up for auction this week is part of a very special collection—including lots of rarities—compiled over many years.  I will be listing many more items from this huge collection in the coming months.  This week I am mainly listing progressive rock, art rock, and related albums.   This includes symphonic prog, classical rock, neo, RIO, Zeuhl, Canterbury, fusion, progressive folk, progressive electronic etc.  To see more rare and collectable items, click on the “View seller’s other items” button above. 

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