The Atacama area on the Pacific coast of South America is best characterised as what?
The Atacama Experience The Atacama Experience The Atacama Experience is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 2007. It reached number 24 on the "Billboard" Top Jazz Albums chart, Ponty's first charting album since "Live at Chene Park" in 1996. It is his first studio album in six years since "Life Enigma". The album personnel consists of Ponty's regular touring band with guest appearances by the guitarists Allan Holdsworth (on track 4) and Philip Catherine (on tracks 2, 5 and 12). The title refers to the Atacama Desert on the Pacific coast of South America. In the first edition
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