Psychedelic music loses a master – liberation

Reminiscence of ten years ago. When the New York label RVNG INTL. has published An Evolutionary Music 1972-1979anthology of formative works, some of which are essential, of the French Ariel Kalma who had served as a pretext to a portrait in Libertythere was nothing else online than some incomplete information about his career and his life, not a Wikipedia page in English. Observation afflicted in June 2025, in the aftermath of the announcement of his disappearance at the age of 78, and after years when the Frenchman installed in Byron Bay, Australia, was able to enjoy a renewed interest in his music and collaborate in all va with the young generations of experimental music in the broadest sense (Jeremiah Chu, Robert Aiki Aubrey, Gilbert Cohen, Asa Tone, Sarah Davachi): The information available about it is barely more abundant, and it still does not have a Wikipedia page in French.

No one is a prophet, etc. Above all, it is verified that posterity, for the pioneers of the French avant-garde, still depends largely from which we have created and worked. In this case Ariel Kalma, born Kalmanowicz in 1947 in Paris, will not have benefited from the support of any institution in almost six career decades. His first disc in his name, The time of harvests (1975) was certainly partly recorded in the premises of