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The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight came together in 1996 as an instrumental side project led by guitarist Jimmy Bower and drummer Joe Lacaze of the New Orleans sludge metal group Eyehategod, along with members of Crowbar and Down. Bower and Lacaze's inspiration from the start was to get away from the pummelling nihilistic dirge metal of Eyehategod and use their new project as an outlet for the improvisational music that they had absorbed growing up in New Orleans, whether it be jazz, soul, funk, or rock. The Krewe's influences range from the Southern blues-rock of The Allman Brothers Band, native...

Clearlight refers to a number of artists. (1) The best known is a French progressive or space rock band active intermittently since 1974. (2) An American band used the name in the 1980s. (3) Experimental dub producer from Charleroi, Belgium. https://soundcloud.com/clearlightdub Clearlight (1) (AKA Clearlight Symphony) was a French band that combined space rock and symphonic prog under the leadership of keyboardist Cyrille Verdeaux. Their albums Symphony (1974), Forever Blowing Bubbles (1976), Visions (1978), and Les Contes du Singe Fou (1978) are highly regarded by fans of space and progressive rock. Verdeaux resurrected the Clearlight name for Symphony II (1990),...

Clearlight Symphony is and alternate form of the name of the French band commonly called Clearlight. .