Showing posts with label Jox. Show all posts
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May 10, 2008

Jox – Joxifications (1982, LP, France)


Tracklist:
A1. Dessous les lauriers blancs (6:26)
A2. Promenade au gre des vagues (4:25)
A3. Millesime 80 (7:50)
A4. Metig (4:15)
B1. Projet pour une ballade sur les cimes (7:54)
B2. Sequences (7:05)
B3. Secondes Noces (6:03)
B4. Effervescence (3:28)

Musicians:
Bass, Vocals – Jean-Claude Larrieu
Flute [Irish], Oboe, Electric Guitar, Vocals – Thierry Flajoliet
Guitar [Electroacoustic], Twelve-string Guitar, Vocals – Jean-François Quinchon
Piano, Synthesizer – Jean-Michel Grosgurin


An obscure French band that only released 1 album, Joxifixations (1982), Jox has been compared to GENTLE GIANT and GRYPHON, but also show influences from progressive masters like YES and their fair share of celtic folk rock pioneers like HORSLIPS and, closer to home, TRI YANN. They play an eclectic, mostly instrumental brand of progressive folk incorporating a debonair je ne sais quoi that only the French possess.