Wapassou

The Profile

French music group from Strasbourg (Alsace), active in the mid-1970s and known for the 1976 album 'Messe en ré mineur', a single multi-movement work mixing synths, violin, guitar and soprano voice into austere, experimental music.

Wapassou is presented as a Strasbourg-based French group whose 1976 work Messe en ré mineur is a single ~40-minute multi-movement piece with austere, experimental sonorities. Line-up on that album: Freddy Brua (keyboards/synths), Jacques Lichti (violin), Karin Nickerl (guitar) and a soprano called Eurydice. The record is described as dark, arcane and liturgical in mood, part of a trilogy completed by Salammbô and Ludwig.