Galaxy Express | uk

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Recorded by a Frenchman, a Belgian and an Iranian who’d wound up in New York’s East Village via extensive travels out East, this 1969 classic is arguably the finest fusion of traditional Middle Eastern music and psychedelia ever recorded. Featuring guitar and drums as well as oud, electric sitar, melodica, dumbek and minitar, it’s a hypnotic, compelling blast from start to finish. As the original sleevenotes state: ‘Like the train whose name they bear, the Orient Express travels easily from West to East and back again, maintaining their individuality and integrity all the way.’ Guy Duris was born on the...