Fusion Obscurities

For me as a musician from the 70's, there's a special place in my heart for Jazz Rock Fusion. I found most of the musicians to be high caliber players and the music to incorporate the experimental nature I like. Of course there was a lot of dribble and masturbatory shred, which I shun. But the fact that this was not radio friendly fare, I think made it attractive to me. I gravitated to it like a moth to a flame. Anyway 47 years after hearing Tony Williams Lifetime, I am still finding music I never heard before. No not all of it is new, just new to my ears. I thought I'd share some stuff  I've been digging lately. If you like tasty fusion, maybe you'll like it too. Peace all. 

Yeah thanks for the recs. I too love a lot of obscurities found inside the fusion moniker. I also have a hard time with musicians that are all chops and no sauce, which is why I never really 'got' Mahavishnu Orchestra yet by the same token absolutely adore the surrounding albums made by many of the same musicians (Mwandishi, Weather Report, Miles fusion period etc etc).

As for obscurities?
Clivage - Mixtus Orbis
Warm Dust - s/t
Association PC - Sun Rotation
Secret Oyster - Sea Son
Transit Express - Priglacit
Et Cetera - Knirsch
Morpheus - Rabenteur
Dzyan - Time Machine
Hiro Yanagida - Hirocosmos
McLuhan - Anomaly

Edited by Guldbamsen - October 08 2018 at 09:24

Not sure how 'obscure' some of these are but they are a few of my favorite ones.....

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Droxford wrote: Wow this is fabulous. Thank you ever so much for sharing. Will have to check this band out.  [QUOTE=Boboulo] Soncna Pot - "Zarek" (1978)

I'm glad you liked it. In the former Yugoslavia, there was a certain degree of enthusiasm for the genre, and therefore some songs are really like little masterpieces.

Droxford wrote: Interesting selection Boboulo , thank you for posting  and giving some insight into the music of former Yugoslavia.  Enjoyed them all, probably the leb i sol track was my personal favourite, reminded me of Santana around the time of 'Caravanserai' . Intrigued how Fusion and Prog got to reach former Yugoslavia . Did a scene just evolve from the Jazz scene without too much Western influence ?

According to the data available on the Internet, a guy named Rafael Blam has founded the first real jazz orchestra in Belgrade, under the name "Studentski Micky Jazz", quite early, in 1927. His son, Misa Blam, who has played jazz bass, was released an interesting jazz fusion album titled "Secanja", in 1979.