FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA

Patrick Forgas was 18 years old when he first heard the music that would change his life : the second Soft Machine album. He would spend the following years perfecting his drumming technique in several of the bands that flourished at the time, the early 70's. In 1975, he recorded a demo tape with Dominique Godin (keyboards and sax) and Didier Thibault (bass), but the latter, formerly of Moving Gelatine Plates (an excellent French band in the Canterbury vein, which recorded two acclaimed albums in 1970 and 1971), went on to form a new version of MGP, taking Godin with him, and leaving Patrick on his own. Luckily, the tape caught the attention of the new-born Gratte-Ciel label, and in 1977 he recorded and released his first album Cocktail, with a cast of musicians which read like a who's who of the French progressive scene, with former and future members of read more...