Transit Express - Priglacit (1975)

The debut album from this French band.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of clavinet, piano, electric piano, synths, guitars, bass, vibraphone, percussion and drums.

This is one of the many fusion bands who operated in small clubs in the shadows of the big fusion bands in the 1970s.

Transit Express was very much influenced by Brand X and Mahavishnu Orchestra.

The music on this half an hour short album is indeed very much a mix of those two bands and schools of fusion.

The music on this album is pretty intense though and the half an hour really rattles the windows in this office.

The music is at times very fast with a lot of interesting solos.

The music is indeed rather good throughout. It proves that it is well worth taking a deep dive into the fusion scene instead of just only listen to the big bands in the scene.

Check out this album.

3 points