Machi Oul Big Band – Quetzalcoatl [LP] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition perfectly capable of being explicit

perfectly capable of being explicit when honouring the roots but so committed to a new stance that one may feel thrown off balance by the sheer genius of the compositions

confusingly accompanied by an ugly handmade card

"Marginal Consort is a rare gift of restlessness

Kyrssi Battalene (Mountain Movers/Headroom)

The reverberative

Machi Oul Big Band – Quetzalcoatl [LP] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition perfectly capable of being explicit"Before coming to Europe, in 1970, pianist Manuel Villarroel was a vet in his native Chilli. A few years later, as leader of the Machi Oul Big Band, he returned to the animal kingdom. A very specific kind of animal, for sure, the Quetzalcoatl, also known as the Feathered Serpent. What is behind this title (also the name of one of the three original compositions on this album released on the Palm label in 1976), is first and foremost a sort of