Patrick Forgas released his first solo album Cocktail in 1977, and subsequently toured with his own band. After a period away from music, he returned in the late 80s/early 90s with two solo albums, L'Oeil and Art D'Echo, then formed Forgas Band Phenomena in 1993. The band has so far released four albums : Roue Libre (1997) and Extra-Lucide (1999) on Cosmos Music, and Soleil 12 (2005) and L'Axe du Fou (2009) on Cuneiform Records. In 2008 the band recorded a cover of Christian Vander's "Africa Anteria" for the Magma tribute Hur!, and performed at the Guro-Gu Festival in Seoul (South Korea).
Line-up on the tracks featured on this page :
"L'Axe Du Fou" / "Double Sens" : Patrick Forgas (d), Benjamin Violet (g), Igor Brover (kb), Kengo Mochizuki (b), Sebastien Trognon (s/fl), Dimitri Alexaline (tpt), Karolina Mlodecka (vln)
"Soleil 12" : Patrick Forgas (d), Sylvain Ducloux (g), Igor Brover (kb), Kengo Mochizuki (b), Stanislas De Nussac (s), Sylvain Gontard (tpt), Fred Norel (vln), Denis Guivarc'h (s)
"Extra-Lucide" / "Pieuvre A La Pluie" : Patrick Forgas (d), Mathias Desmier (g), Gilles Pausanias (kb), Juan Sébastien Jimenez (b), Denis Guivarc'h (s)
"Déclic" / "Sérum De Vérité" / "Roue Libre" : Patrick Forgas (d), Mathias Desmier (g), Stéphane Jaoui (kb), Philippe Talet (b), Fred Schmidely (s), Mireille Bauer (vib)
"Palpelabio" : Patrick Forgas (d), Laurent Roubach (g), Eric Bono (kb), Philippe Talet (b), Patrick Tillemann (vln)
"My Trip" : Patrick Forgas (d/voc), Laurent Roubach (g), Jean-Pierre Fouquey (kb), Gerard Prevost (b), Patrick Tillemann (vln), Bruce Grant (s)
