ZAO - LIVE!

Zao

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Zeuhl

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3.67 | 15 ratings | 2 reviews | 13% 5 stars

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Live, released in 1976

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Shardaz (9:41)
2. Isis (8:07)
3. Tserouf (6:36)
4. Sadie (5:17)
5. Zohar (9:46)
6. Improcol (19:28)
7. Jumelles (6:39)
8. Kabal (4:57)

Total Time: 70:31

Line-up / Musicians

- Francois Cahen / piano & synthesizers
- Didier Lockwood / violin
- Gerard Prevost / bass
- Jean-My Truong / drums & percussion

Releases information

CD Musea 4492 (2004)

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ZAO Zao - Live! ratings distribution

3.67
(15 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(13%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(53%)
Good, but non-essential (27%)
Collectors/fans only (0%)
Poor. Only for completionists (7%)

ZAO Zao - Live! reviews

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Review by Padraic
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

This is an outstanding live performance done shortly after Yochk'o Seffer left the band. Didier Lockwood provides his usual excellence on violin, and Jean My-Truong is absolutely outstanding on drums. The whole band breathes a high level of energy into tracks from the first four Zao albums - in particular you can hear this in the performance of "Isis", where this author found the studio recording a bit lackluster and flat. The one downside of this album (and certainly why it can't get 5 stars) is that the audio quality is barely tolerable - particularly on "Improcol" where it threatens to almost drop off completely - pretty much bootleg quality throughout. Still, highly recommended for jazz-rock and zeuhl fans.

Latest members reviews

3 stars This one is the first and the only official live document of ZAO, the first "child" of French zeuhl-legend Magma, recorded in 1976 and released in 2003. Sax player Yochk'o Jeff Seffer had just left the band and therefore we can hear four-piece-band here (Francois Cahen - kb, Didier Lockwood - ... (read more)

Report this review (#73299) | Posted by Rainer Rein | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | Review Permanlink

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