LAGGER BLUES MACHINE [AKA: TANIT]

Lagger Blues Machine are quite hard to categorise - while they are clearly not out and out Zeuhl, it appears they at the very least have similar influences to Christian Vander's early works with Magma, and do exhibit some of the darker drum-driven tropes that at least give them a tenuous link to the sub-genre. Jazz Fusion may be more appropriate?

Anyway, Symphonie - Part 1 covers an awful lot in 13 minutes, mainly organ driven, but with some Zeuhl-style vocals, and more often than not led by a guitar riff that actually to me seems more reminiscent of Cream or Hendrix.

Darknessly is perhaps the most Zeuhl sounding track, in particular the haunting vocals. The rest of the album continues in a similar vein, but I must admit the whole thing is let down by the production - pretty fuzzy and distorted - so much so that I switched off a bit towards the end