1/2/2023 0 Comments Didier malherbe bloom![]() ![]() Widely acclaimed as one of the great masters of wind instruments, Parisian Didier Malherbe started on saxophone when he was 13, after hearing Charlie Parker’s Bloomdido, from the Bird and Dizz album. He would then team up with ex-Zao (and former Magma) keyboardist François Cahen in Faton Bloom during the mid-80s.Didier Malherbe, a stalwart of the mythical band GONG talks about his current band the "Hadouk Trio" (that includes Loy Ehrlich and Steve Shehan), his new CD with Eric Löhrer, his poetry and his love for the doudouk. Malherbe would next record an album with Emeric in 1981, though it would only see limited release on the GAS/Ottersongs label. Bloom is a phenomenal album, offering yet another look at the remarkable talent that was Gong. Malherbe's epic "Suite a tout de suite" closes: an eclectic mix of acoustic guitar, sax and electric piano. Emeric's "Dan Dan" is the lone non-Malherbe composition, and chiefly features his stellar guitar playing. Malherbe and Kimberly both offer vocals on "Give A Chance To To-Morrow " the song and its lyrics veer toward the Gong canon, offering a not-so-serious take on some seriously good music. ![]() "Whiskers," featuring Peter Kimberley on bass, presents a more formal structure, but one similarly electric and very melodic these are rich, complex ensemble arrangements that never get fussy. Anchored by Jano Padovani on drums and Winston Berkeley on bass, soloists Malherbe, guitarist Yan Emeric Vagh and keyboardist Mico Nissim all deliver perfectly-executed performances. If you thought Gong's Gazeuse! was a jam, look no further than this record for more. After a few opening honks, "Bateau-vole" ("Flying boat") leaps off the groove, revealing a most capable fusion band. Back in Paris in the late 70s, Malherbe-or rather "Bloomdido Bad de Grass," as he was known in Gong-formed a band of his own, and recorded an album named after his moniker, Bloom, for Tapioca Records. No matter: Malherbe spent the next decade playing wind instruments with Gong, eventually parting ways after an album into Gong's so-called Pierre Moerlen era. ![]() Legend has it that, in the late 60s, Daevid Allen found Didier Malherbe playing a flute and living in a cave in Deya, Majorca (though they'd met before in Paris in 1967). ![]()
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