Search - Guy Skornik :: Pour Pauwels

One of a handful of classic French progressive pop concept albums of the early 1970's, together with Serge Gainsbourg's Melody Nelson, Igor Wakévitch's Hathor, Gérard Manset's La Mort D'Orion,"" and Michel Berger's Puzzle.Key member of François Wertheimer's Popera Cosmic collective. Arrangements by Ivan Jullien (Françoise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, Quincy Jones, & Elton John). Includes a 28 page booklet. Licensed from Parlophone, A Warner Music Group Company. Limited to 500 copies.Between 1970 and 1973, EMI/Pathé released several ambitious and progressive pop albums: La Mort D'Orion (Gérard Manset), Puzzle (Michel Berger), Hathor (Igor Wakévitch), and Pour Pauwels by Guy Skornik. Skornik was a mystic explorer, psychonaut, and gifted musician, who was immersed in the metaphysical revolutions of his time. He presented television reports, laced with elements of Eastern mysticism, on LSD experiences. And then there was Skornik's album, Pour Pauwells, inspired by the revolutionary writings of Louis Pauwells, one-time counterculture hero and disciple of esoteric spiritualist G. I. Gurdjieff.