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The band heard on this CD was Bozon in its final incarnation. Bozon began in the late
seventies forging a unique form of jazz-rock in a rehearsal studio (”the space”) behind
the Dharma Submarine Shop near the nexus of Market and Van Ness streets in San
Francisco. Countless long days and late nights were spent working on complex original
compositions that often featured an anarchic sense of humor and “odd” time signatures
(with no regard, indeed a disdain for the monotony of the four-four disco beat so
prevalent at the time). The diversity of the players’ backgrounds brought a large pallet
of influences into the mix. Sometimes, this created an overly complicated gumbo of
confusion (both for the players and listeners). However, when things did go right, the
results could be surprising and sublime. Bozon played a modest succession of rather
eccentric parties and gigs, but it was hard to duplicate their sound out of the space.
As disco gave way to punk, the handwriting was easy enough to read. The group
disbanded in late 1980/early 1981.
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