St. Erhart ‎– Paprika (1980, LP, France)

Side A
A1. Paprika (4:45)
A2. Ibiza (5:23)
A3. Lune Noire (5:49)
Side B

B1. Cuando Se Come Aqui (7:28)
B2. Hersch (4:50)
B3. Schprotz (5:45)

Musicians
Philippe Geiss/ tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, maracas, composer

Emmanuel Séjourné/ vibraphone, marimba, piano, bell tree, composer
Claude Boussard/ bass, composer
Gilles Fontan/ drums, cowbell, triangle, Vibra-Slap, composer

SAINT-ERHART produced an original, forceful jazz-rock album in the same vein as Serge BRINGOLF. Their music is powerful, rigorous, violent reaching perfection as far as technique and melodies are concerned and based on a solid rhythmic section, the sounds and inspired passages from the brass section and the complexity of themes and arrangements. SAINT-ERHART offers energetic carefully worked-out and captivating compositions during which Emmanuel SEJOURNE's vibraphone and Philippe GEISS's sax vie with each other in terms of virtuosity and inspiration. An excellent album which shows what original jazz-rock can be, technical and lyrical at one and the same time.