[CP 199.12 CD] Alexandre Kush, Bernard Lamastre; Secrets, Quiet Times

Released the same year as Kent Carter's masterful "Network" (see: [CP 253 CD]) on the adjacent Lamastre-helmed Discobole, French Production-Library Illustra-Son issued this pair of collaborations (recorded at "Studio Family") between Régis "Bernard Lamastre" Raymond Justin Marie Charles Delaye & the shadowy "Alexandre Kush" (who, as it turns out, is none other than the French Free Jazz musician Michel Alexandre "Misha" Lobko, whose early-80s Synth & Sax duo dates w/ Raymond Boni & Tran Quang Hai & his Private-Press solo outing "Troglodyte" are well worth investigating) back-to-back as #IS 860 912 / 913. Long held (in escrow) by yours truly, many have come forth to nominate these for the C.P. program proper (based largely on the too-good-to-be-true LP covers, which, I have to say, have slowly & surely looked better & better with each passing year, and are absolutely stunning here in their Double-A-Side C.P. configuration) but, for 15 years, I held the line at the