Marsupilami were an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band active in the early 1970s. The band released two albums, Marsupilami (1970) and Arena (1971) on Transatlantic Records

Transatlantic Records

Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label. It was established in 1961. It started began primarily as an importer of American folk, blues and jazz records - by many of the artists who influenced the burgeoning British folk and blues boom. Within a couple of years, the company had...

. The albums were reissued on Cherry Red Records in 2007.

Personnel

Mike Fouracre - Drums

Fred Hasson - Vocals, Harmonica, words and music

Leary Hasson - Keyboards, and music

Richard Lathan Hicks - Bass

Dave Laverock - Guitar, and vocals, words and music

Jessica Stanley Clarke - Flute, Vocals

Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ, piano, synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer...

 - Percussion and producer of 'Arena'

Mandy Riedelbanch - Woodwind

Bob West - Vocals and words on 'Arena'

Paul Dunmall

Paul Dunmall

Paul Dunmall is a British jazz saxophonist who plays tenor and soprano saxophone as well as the baritone and the more exotic Saxello and the Northumbrian pipes.He has a long discography on the Duns Limited Edition label....

 - Tenor and Sopranos Saxes and flute

Discography

• Marsupilami (Transatlantic TRA 213) 1970
• Arena (Transatlantic TRA 230) 1971

After Marsupilami

Singer Jessica Stanley Clarke later became known as Jekka McVicar

Jekka McVicar

Jessica "Jekka" McVicar is an English organic gardening expert, author and broadcaster, particularly on the cultivation and use of herbs.She was brought up in Chew Magna, Somerset, and learned about the use of herbs from her grandmother, the writer Ruth Lowinsky, and her mother...

, who is one of the UK's best-known organic gardening experts, and proprietor of Jekka's Herb Farm near Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

.

Fred Hasson has followed a career in media industries - TV, dotcom and video games, but can sometimes be seen at jam sessions in London playing harmonica.

Leary Hasson still lives on the farm the band rehearsed in, and still plays in a number of local outfits.

Bob West is now an artist living in France.

Mike Fouracre works at the Arts Council

Arts council

An arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad...

.

Paul Dunmall

Paul Dunmall

Paul Dunmall is a British jazz saxophonist who plays tenor and soprano saxophone as well as the baritone and the more exotic Saxello and the Northumbrian pipes.He has a long discography on the Duns Limited Edition label....

 is still playing on the free jazz circuit with Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...

 and others.

External links

• [ Discography], Allmusic.
• Marsupilami at The Tapestry of Delights