A1. Balance
A2. Un Matin a St. Anand
A3 San Fedo
A4. Recontre Impromptue
A5. Big Ben
A6. Dernier Flash
B1. Voyage ou Comment y Aller
B2. Seven Easy Calls
B3. Special 2
B4. Melopee a Retard
B5. Georges
B6. 10 '' GMT
'Kha-Ym was a duo of Alain Gerbe and Jacky Michaud. Alain conceived the album on his own and essentially played all the other parts on the recording - bass, percussions, guitars and keyboards. He brought in Jacky to fill out the drums and add additional percussions. Influenced by their interest in progressive music, they decided to create an album. Alain wrote the music, and the duo practiced for some time before they began recording, in their home, with two Revox A77 tape machines. That way they put together all the tracks recorded to be included on their only album - 10" GMT. Knowing in advance that no big label would sign them because their music was not commercial [& punk was the flavor of the season at the end of the 1970s], they decided to press the album themselves at FLVM, a French ‘do it yourself’ label. Before taking it to press, the guys added some overdubbing at Roanne studio with sound engineer Mark Tamburro, and the album was released as a Roanne Music record. The big advantage at the Roanne studio were the additional instruments and the polyphonic Korg synth that Alain used through the recording.' source
'A duo, composed of a multi-instrumentalist (keyboards, guitar, bass, voice) and a percussionist, which offers an album constituted of multiple, short, varied, polished, inventive, instrumental pieces, with a naîve charm, sometimes evocative of EDEN, EGG or ROEDELIUS. The compositions are attractive, built around and developed around some organ's notes, some guitar's chords or some outlines of melodies, often delicate and fragile, constructed by the keyboards whose the multiple registers and sounds create solemn and precious tones or sometimes evoke the timbre of a harpsichord, a harp or a mechanical organ... Original and excellent' source
owl asked me to post some obscure 'classics' & while i've never been a huge fan of 'prog' per se, this is music to my ears. weird diy keyboard driven bedroom prog with some occasional baroque folque elements i guess & a really unique vibe throughout. no two songs sound the same & they have many different styles, all of them ace & super listenable. it was difficult to choose a representative sound sample because this record just keeps getting better & i have a different fav depending on the weather. i know i'm pretty terrible at writing record reviews but i hate reading them anyway. that's why there's quotes! a 320 rip of a wonderfully original album, perfect for a rainy day like today!
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