Milkweed - 1978 (full album)

Milkweed biography
MILKWEED was a one-shot, very obscure progressive offering by a group of Canadian artists released on vinyl in the late seventies. The album was re-issued in the nineties by SynPhonic Records, and is still carried in that label's catalog.

While information about the project is scarce, this does not appear to have been an actual band, but rather a project to deliver multi-discipline art in the form of a progressive recording. Saxophonist Marcel Lapointe is an established performance artist and chamber musician who has also appeared as a guest artist on world-music recordings such as those of MUSA DIENG KALA, and continues to perform today in the Quebec area. Guitarist Jocelyn Sheehy appeared as a stock musician in the 1974 Francophile film 'Guitare'. Multi-discipline artist Pierre Nadeau appears as vocalist on the album, his contributions consisting primarily of spoken-word poetry recitations. Mr. Nadeau was a well-known concert pianist in eastern Canada who passed away in 2004. The remainder of the members of the project have largely disappeared from the international music scene.

Line-up / Musicians
- Sergio Gonclaves / keyboards
- Louise Caffope / oboe
- Edouardo Couto / guitar
- Nelson Gamboa / bass
- Marcel Lapointe / saxophone
- Gerard Masse / drums
- Pierre Nadeau / vocals
- Jocelyn Sheehy / guitar

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