The five-piece French band Lazuli embodies prog rock with world music influences - mystical, lyrical, progressive, rocking, enchanting.

Anyone who has experienced Lazuli's incredible musical mixture live is bound to fall for it. Elements of progressive rock, chanson, folk and world music meet the most incredible sounds and violent percussion thunderstorms. There are not so many categories that Lazuli's music could be pigeonholed into. And for those who do need comparisons for this incomparable music, the description "King Crimson meets Peter Gabriel" might provide an approximate yet inadequate explanation.

Lazuli also uses an unusual set of instruments: marimba and vibraphone are already very rare representatives on rock stages and yet these instruments are not as special as the strange stringed instrument called "Leode", which Lazuli developed themselves and of which there is only this one example in the world. The band's sound is thus enriched by a complete sound cosmos that has never been heard before.