Zao (French band)
Zao (also written ZAO ) was a French progressive rock and fusion band, founded in 1973.
Band History
Two former magma musician, saxophonist and clarinetist Yochk'o Seffer and pianist François Cahen, formed the band. They had left after their second album Magma 1001 ° Centigrades, because they no longer found enough freedom to realize their musical ideas there. In the meantime, also included Didier Lockwood to fill. To Zaos style Leaned initially to the Zeuhl the early magma, he took over the years more and more elements of jazz and fusion. The band name was taken from the Kabbalah.
After the dissolution of the band in 1977 there were at least two Reunions Zao: 1994 production of the album Akhenaton and 2004 to a tour, in which the live album was released in 2007 in Tokyo, was built on the more Zeuhl elements are again to be found.