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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Even if I didn't include them in my list, I've always counted Gong as a French band, since the band was based there and Moze, Moerlen, Tritsch, Malherbe, Houari, Laloux, Bauer & Giraudy were French (and I probably missed a couple)

Patrice Lemoine and Mino Cinelu, for example. And Pierre's brother Benoît.


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Even if I didn't include them in my list, I've always counted Gong as a French band, since the band was based there and Moze, Moerlen, Tritsch, Malherbe, Houari, Laloux, Bauer & Giraudy were French (and I probably missed a couple)
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I knew their French-ness is controversial, but whatever...

Look at the line-up, I wrote.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:


Gong - Shamal


Gong are French? I guess so with Moerlin's line-ups. I'm always surprised when Shamal makes a favorite list from them. I like both eras but would have pick other Pierre Moerlin albums. I do like Shamal a lot.


Gazeuse! is about as good in my view and I do like many later Pierre Moerlen albums, but Shamal is special to me, best combination of the new jazzy direction with some psychedelic spice from the older Gong. I knew their French-ness is controversial, but whatever...

BY the way, I recently discovered the 2010 Pierre Moerlen's Gong Tribute album, recorded by French musicians who were to form Pierre's new Gong when he died, so he is only on one track of that album, but I am amazed how good it is.


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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Gong - Shamal
Gong are French? I guess so with Moerlin's line-ups. I'm always surprised when Shamal makes a favorite list from them. I like both eras but would have pick other Pierre Moerlin albums. I do like Shamal a lot.

The line-up on Shamal is
I find Shamal a fine album (actually listend to it today), and I've done it for a lot of years - not particularly complex or original but rather plain 1975 mainstream Jazz-Rock, but yet, very coherent, exotic, and with quite a lot of other interesting and quirky elements, fine rythms, very well produced, and with "classy" cover. Something else is that I don't like any other of Pierre Moerlen albums - but yes, we have all different judgements of music so, we can only tell each other what we think. And I can somehow imagine, Nogbad, that you preference here is similar to your choosing of Equinoxe above Oxygene?


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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:


Gong - Shamal


Gong are French? I guess so with Moerlin's line-ups. I'm always surprised when Shamal makes a favorite list from them. I like both eras but would have pick other Pierre Moerlin albums. I do like Shamal a lot.



Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - November 11 2021 at 12:28
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1. Emmanuel Booz - Dans quel état j'erre
2. Atoll - Tertio
3. Magma - Mëkanïk Dëstruktiẁ Kömmandöh
4. Noa - Noa
5. Alco Frisbass - Alco Frisbass
6. Le Grand Sbam - Vaisseau monde
7. PoiL - Sus
8. Spleen Arcana - The Light Beyond the Shades
9. Evohé - 77-81
10. Eskaton - 4 Visions
11. Neom - Arkana Temporis
12. bbi - bbi

Honorable mentions:
Nil - Nil Novo Sub Sole
Artús - Ors
Atoll - L'araignée-mal
Scherzoo - 01
ni - Pantophobie
Carpe Diem - Cueille le jour
Weidorje - Weidorje
Magma - Attahk
Shub-Niggurath - Les morts vont vite
Alco Frisbass - Le bateleur
Le Grand Sbam - Furvent
Nebelnest - NoVa eXPReSS


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One per band, indeed, otherwise there would be several albums by Ange.
(couldn't trim it down to 12, so trim it down by eliminating 2 of your choice...)

Ange - Guet-Apens
Versailles - Le Trésor de Valliesres
Mona Lisa - Avant qu'il ne soit trop tard
Lazuli - Le fantastique envol de Dieter Böhm
Art Zoyd - Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités
Taal - Skymind
Magma - s/t
Atoll - L'araignée-mal
Alan Stivell - Terre Des Vivants
Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger
Pulsar - Halloween
Minimum Vital - Sarabandes
4/3 De Trio - F4i3lesse (recent discovery!)
Arrakeen - Patchwork

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I stick to one per band (otherwise I could have listed at least six by Art Zoyd - in fact I've listed a five CD box now)

Art Zoyd - Phase V
Gong - Shamal
Didier Malherbe - Bloom
Jannick Top - Infernal Machina
öOoOoOoOoOo (Chenille) - Samen
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh
Dun - Eros
Eskaton - 4 Visions
Aquaserge - A'l amitie
Patricia Dallio - L'encre des voix secrètes
Jean-Michel Jarre - Concerts in China
Pulsar - Pollen
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

I won't do albums, because to me, the band is the important artist, not one album. As an example, ANGE's probably best and most exciting album is indeed the one many seem to like, but all of their first 6 or 7 albums are all excellent, and I have a hard time choosing one to listen to. 

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Hi,

I won't do albums, because to me, the band is the important artist, not one album. As an example, ANGE's probably best and most exciting album is indeed the one many seem to like, but all of their first 6 or 7 albums are all excellent, and I have a hard time choosing one to listen to. Even TOME VI is excellent and deserves some credit. Not to mention that Christian Decamps has some outstanding and far out albums that are tops.

Ange   
Atoll  
Clearlight   Clearlight Symphony
Pierre Moerlin's Gong
Heldon  
Jean Michel Jarre 
Magma   
Malicorne
Pulsar  
Mona Lisa
Catherine Ribeiro
Alan Stivell

Folks that were members of some bands:
Christian Decamps
Jannick Top
Cyreille Verdoux

More recent:
Patrick Gautier
Le Grand Sbam (thx reminder)

(I'll update if I can remember some more names ... missing too many!)


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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


Like the OP, that list is a baker's dozen (13)

Right, it was also difficult for me to do it otherwise. Smile
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Great idea! I agree that French prog does not get enough attention!

1. Magma  MDK   (1973)

2. Alan Stivell  Renaissance de la harpe Celtique (1971)

3. Laurent Thibault  Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps  (1979)

4. Eskaton  4 Visions   (1979, 1981)

5. Nil Nil Novo Sub Sole (2005)

6. Atoll  L’Araignee-mal  (1975)

7. Art Zoyd  Häxan  (1997)

8. Zao  Kawana  (1976)

9. Setna  Guérison  (2013)

10. Jean Michel Jarre  Oxygène   (1976)

11. Vak Budo (2018)  

12. Pulsar  Halloween  (1977)


Honorable Mentions:

Thork Nula Jedan (2007)

Arnaud Bukwald La marmite cosmique six (2020)

Jean-Luc Ponty  Imaginary Voyage  (1976)

PinioL Bran Coucou (2018)

Nemo Coma (2015)

Moving Gelatine Plates The World of Genius Hans (1972)

Sequentia Legenda Renaissance (2018)

Ange  Au-delá Du Délire  (1974)

Shub-Niggurath Les morts vont vite (1986)

Taal  Skymind   (2002)




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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches
Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust
Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage (OST)
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Damn, I forgot about Alco Frisbass.
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1. Shylock Gialorgues
2. Nemo Barbares
3. JPL Sapiens Chapitre 1
4. Carpe Diem Cueille Le Jour
5. Minimum Vital Pavanes
6. Lazuli Le Fantastique Envol
7. Atoll L'Araignee-Mal
8. Ange Au Dela Du Delire
9. Arachnoid s/t
10. Pentangle La Clef Des Songes
11. Pulsar Pollen
12. Magma KA
13. Clearlight Clearlight Symphony

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France is a favourite country for music, includiing various types of music under the so-called progressive rock umbrella. It probably is the country that I was the most avid collector of music from for quite some time and so limiting to 12 could not give a fully satisfying list. Still, I'm quite happy with this list as all of these have been very important to me.

Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches
Igor Wakhévitch - Docteur Faust
Art Zoyd - Génération sans futur
Magma - Kobaïa
Zanov - Green Ray
Clivage - Mixtus Orbis
Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage (OST)
Dün - Eros
Eskaton - 4 Visions
Hellebore - Il y a Des Jours
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Paix
Vortex - Les cycles de Thanatos
Archaïa - Archaïa

Like the OP, that list is a baker's dozen (13)

- Out of Prog Archives bonus, but related: Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
- An in Prog related bonus with William Sheller - Lux Aeterna
- And one I thought of quickly but bumped from my list:
Pascal Duffard - Dieu est Fou (quite little known and was my first addition and an early suggestion of mine to PA)

I have covered "classics" or more classic era albums.

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and these...
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Flamen Dialis - Symptome-Dei 

Hedayat, Dashiell - Obsolete

Clivage (Andre Fertier) - Regina Astris         

Hellebore -Il y a des Jours       

Ribeiro, Catherine & Alpes - Paix

Vortex - Les Cycles De Thanatos    


+ Forgas - Cocktail

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Moving Gelatine Plates - The World Of Genius Hans
Oh, forgot about them. Either that one or their debut easily in my top five.
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Magma - Theusz Hamtaahk
Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
Magma - K.A
Jannick Top - Infernal Machina
Ange - Au-delà du Délire
Melmoth - Les Devantures des Ivresses
Gong - You
Gong - Live au Bataclan
Hadouk Trio - Air Hadouk
Stella Vander - D'épreuves d'amour
Tim Blake - Crystal Machine
Zao - Zao


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