Your favourite 12 French Prog albums?
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Topic: Your favourite 12 French Prog albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your favourite 12 French Prog albums?
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 00:09
I can tell that - next after UK - Germany, Italy and France are my favourite Prog coutries. We've had German and Italian personal top 12 lists so hereby French one - still best with one album per band.If beginning with mine, then, in unranked but chronological order:Magma 2:1001º Centigrades (1971) Ange Au-delá Du Délire (1974) Atoll L’Araignee-mal (1975) Clearlight Clearlight Symphony (1975) Gong Shamal (1975) Jean-Luc Ponty Upon the Wings of Music (1975) Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene (1976) Heldon Heldon 6. Interface (1977) Pulsar Halloween (1977) Eskaton 4 Visions (1979, 1981) Halloween Part One (1988) Taal Skymind (2002) Xing Sa Creation De L’univers (2010) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 00:27
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1. Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Gazeuse! 2. Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean 3. Magma - Kobaïa 4. Louis De Mieulle - Sideshow 5. Zao - Shekina 6. Moving Gelatine Plates - The World Of Genius Hans 7. Lockwood, Top, Vander & Widemann - Fusion 8. Zwoyld - Zgond 9. Etron Fou Leloublan - Batelages 10. Sotos - Sotos 11. Art Zoyd - Les Espaces Inquiets 12. Cheval De Frise - Fresques Sur Le Parois Secrètes Du Crâne ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 00:31
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well prepared! thank you, Mirakaze ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 01:27
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Ange - Au-Dela Du Delire (1974) Mémoriance - Et Après (1976)Carpe Diem - En Regardant Passer Le Temps (1975) Magma - Kobaïa (1970) Klone - Le Grand Voyage (2019) Demians - Building An Empire (2008) Nemo - Coma (2015) Les Disctrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernieres Pensees (2010) Aching Beauty - L'Ultima Ora (2004) Acanthe - Someone Somewhere (2009) Adagio - Underworld (2003) Shadyon - Mind Control (2010) |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 01:49
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Very quick, as well, Cristi, and I might have added Nemo's Prelude a la Ruine (2004) to my own list.
Edit: What sub-genre is the other newer stuff?
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 01:52
not that quick, it took me a little while.
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David_D wrote:Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 01:54
If you say so, and I guess, I disturbed you in your list making, or proper, list sending.
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Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 01:58
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I am French and I really dislike bands like Ange, Atoll, Mona Lisa, ... And also Magma and Zeuhl. I will be back soon with "fresh" French progressive bands.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 02:06
Love Ange. Their 70s works are truly great IMO. Mona Lisa tried to be Ange and failed if you ask me. I might give Atoll another chance, I remember having listened to them in the past. Magma has grown on me, I like them every once in a while.  |
Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 02:50
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The Black Noodle Project - Divided We Fall Delusion Squared - The Final Delusion Demians - Building An Empire Klone - Le Grand Voyage The Last Embrace - The Winding Path Lazuli - Le Fantastique Envol de Dieter Bohm Monnaie De Singe (MDS) - The Last Chance Mr Lab! - Post Industrial Ceremony Nine Skies - Return Home Seven Reizh - Strinkadenn Ys Thork - Nula Jedan Weend'ô - Time Of Awakening. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 03:12
Well, we have all different tastes but many of the French classics are surely something in my point of view. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 05:25
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Magma - Kobaïa Art Zoyd - Génération Sans Futur Zanov - Green Ray Lard Free - Lard Free Ange - Au Delà du Délire Dün - Eros Rahmann - st Rhesus O - Rhesus O Eskaton - 4 Visions Archaïa- Archaïa Artcane - Odyssee Zao - Shekina
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 06:05
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note; I didn't separate the 60/70's and the 90's & beyond in this case. 13 Lard Free Gilbert Artman's Lard Free Fra 1973 13 Magma Hhai
/ Live Fra 1975 Live,
Zeuhl 13 Plat
du Jour Plat du Jour Fra 1977 13 Ripaille La Vieille que l'On Brula Fra 1978 13 Setna Guerison Fra 2013 Zeuhl 13 Vak Budo Fra 2018
12 Aquaserge Deja Vous? Fra 2018 12 Art
Zoyd
Generation Sans Futur Fra 1980
12 Art Zoyd Le Mariage du Ciel et l'Enfer Fra 1984 12 Dün Eros Fra 1981
12 Eskaton 4 Visions Fra 1980 Zeuhl 12 Evohé Evohe (K'a (Version Longue)) Fra 1981 12 Flamen
Dialis Symptome-Dei Fra 1979 12 Forgas Band Phenomena L'Axe Du Fou / Axis of Madness Fra 2009 12 Forgas
Band Phenomena L'Oreille Électrique Fra 2018 12 Hedayat,
Dashiell Obsolete Fra 1971 12 Magma Magma Fra 1970 Zeuhl 12 NeBeLNeST NeBeLNeST Fra 1999
12 Perret, Guillaume / The Electric Epic s/t (Tzadik Release) Fra 2012
12 Perret, Guillaume / The Electric Epic Open Me Fra 2014 12 Scherzoo 03 Fra 2015 Fusion,
Zeuhl 12 Setna Cycle
I Fra 2007 Zeuhl 12 Vak Aedividea Fra 2015 12 Vortex (1) Vortex Fra 1975 bubbling under : 11 Abus
Dangereux Le Quatrieme Mouvement Fra 1980 11 Alco Frisbass Alco Frisbass Fra 2015
11 Alco
Frisbass Le Bateleur Fra 2018 11 Ame
Son Catalyse Fra 1971 11 Ange Caricatures Fra 1972 11 Ange Le Cimetière des Arlequins Fra 1973 11 Art
Zoyd Musique Pour l'Odyssee Fra 1979 11 Art
Zoyd
Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cités 11 Art Zoyd Phase IV Fra 1982
11 Asia Minor Crossing the Line (aka Landscape Pictures in Rock) Fra 1979 11 Asia Minor Between Flesh and Divine Fra 1980
11 Atoll Musiciens-Magiciens Fra 1974 11 Atoll L'Araignee Mal Fra 1975 11 Bise
de Buse Joue sa Musique Fra 1981 11 Booz,
Emmanuel Le Jour Ou Les Vaches Fra 1974 11 Booz,
Emmanuel Dans Quel Etat J'Erre Fra 1979 11 Clearlight Clearlight Symphony Fra 1974 11 Clivage (Andre Fertier) Regina Astris Fra 1977 11 Comelade,
Pascal / Les Limiñanas Traité de
Guitarres Triolectiques Fra 2015
11 Delired Cameleon Family Delired Cameleon Family Fra 1975 11 Emeraude Geoffroy Fra 1980 11 Eskaton Fiction Fra 1983 Zeuhl 11 Evohé Evohé Fra 1981 11 Forgas Band Phenomena Roue Libre Fra 1998
11 Forgas Band Phenomena Acte V Fra 2012
11 Gainsbourg, Serge Histoire de Melody Nelson Fra 1971 11 Ghost Rhythms Madeleine Fra 2015
11 Grossmann, Muriel Golden Rule Fra 2018 11 Grossmann,
Muriel Reverence Fra 2019 11 Hadouk
Trio Utopies Fra 2006 11 Hellebore Il y a des Jours Fra 1985 11 Jarre,
Jean-Michel Oxygène Fra 1976 11 L'Oeil
du Sourd Un? Fra 2009 Avant, Fusion 11 Lard Free Unnamed Fra 1972
11 Lard Free I'm Around About Midnight Fra 1975 11 Lard Free Lard Free III Fra 1977
11 Magma 1001 Centigrades Fra 1971 Zeuhl 11 Magma Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh Fra 1973 Zeuhl 11 Magma BBC 1974 Londres Fra 1974 Zeuhl 11 Magma Kohntarkosz Fra 1974 Zeuhl 11 Markusfeld,
Alain Le Son Tombe Du Ciel Fra 1971 11 Melmoth La Devanture des Ivresses Fra 1969 11 Moving Gelatine Plates Moving Gelatine Plates Fra 1971 11 Moving Gelatine Plates The World of Genius Hans Fra 1972 11 NeBeLNeST Nova Express Fra 2002
11 NeBeLNeST ZePTO Fra 2006
11 Noir
Désir Où Veux-tu qu'je
R'garde? (EP) Fra 1987
11 Noir
Désir Veuillez Rendre l'âme
(à Qui Elle Appartient) Fra 1989
11 Perret,
Guillaume Free Fra 2016 11 Perret,
Guillaume A Certain Trip Fra 2020 11 Ponty,
Jean-Luc Live Fra 1979 11 Potemkine Triton Fra 1977 11 Ribeiro,
Catherine & Alpes Paix Fra 1973 11 Scherzoo 05 Fra 2020
11 Shub-Niggurath Les Morts Vont Vite Fra 1986
11 Speed Limit Speed Limit Fra 1976
11 Taal Mister
Green Fra 2000 11 Taal Skymind Fra 2003 11 Thibault,
Laurent Mais on ne Peut pas Rever Tout le
Temps Fra 1979 11 Thollot, François Piano Pieces Fra 2020
11 Thollot, Francois Virtually Spring Fra 2021 11 Triode On N'a Pas Fini d'Avoir Tout Vu Fra 1971 11 Troisieme
Rive Banlieues Fra 1978 11 Unit
Wail Beyond Space Edges Fra 2015 11 Vortex
(1) Les Cycles De Thanatos Fra 1979 11 Xaal On
the Way Fra 1992
11 Xing
Sa Création de l'Univers Fra 2010 11 Zao Z=7L Fra 1973 ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 06:07
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Art Zoyd - Generation Sans Futur Eskaton - 4 Visions Shub-Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh Moving Gelatine Plates - The World Of Genius Hans PoiL - Brossaklitt Weidorje - s/t Yolk - Solar Volapuk - Slang Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe Dun - Eros Archaia - s/t Honorable mentions In Love With - Axel Erotic Theo Ceccaldi / Freaks - Amanda Dakota Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Axe Du Fou Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic - Open Me Setna - Guerison ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 06:22
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Sean, your post makes this thread to a kind of guide to French Prog - I'll remember that. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 06:46
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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 -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 06:47
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 06:56
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and these...
+ Forgas - Cocktail so that makes for a top 20 |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 07:38
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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. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 07:49
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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 French Prog does not get enough attention!!! ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 07:50
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Damn, I forgot about Alco Frisbass. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 08:27
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 08:33
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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) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 09:56
Right, it was also difficult for me to do it otherwise. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 10:09
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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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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 10:15
fair enough! ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 10:36
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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
http://192.168.1.103:9000/clixmlbrowser/clicmd=browselibrary+items&mode=albums&library_id=&artist_id=13536&linktitle=Artist%20%28%C3%B6OoOoOoOoOo%29/&player=00%3A52%3A06%3A4c%3Add%3A9d" rel="nofollow - öOoOoOoOoOo (Chenille) - Samen Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh Dun - Eros Eskaton - 4 Visions Aquaserge - A'l amitie Patricia Dallio - http://192.168.1.103:9000/clixmlbrowser/clicmd=browselibrary+items&linktitle=SEARCH&mode=search/index.html?mode=search&index=0_Dallio.0.1&player=00%3A52%3A06%3A4c%3Add%3A9d&sess=" rel="nofollow - L'encre des voix secrètes
Jean-Michel Jarre - Concerts in China Pulsar - Pollen
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 10:53
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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 ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 11:54
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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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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 12:27
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. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 12:53
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? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 13:55
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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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 14:11
Look at the line-up, I wrote. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 15:59
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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) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 16:05
Patrice Lemoine and Mino Cinelu, for example. And Pierre's brother Benoît. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 11 2021 at 16:31
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Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean Gong Expresso - Decadence ni - Les Insurges de Romilly Piniol - Bran Coucou Lazuli - Le fantastique envol de Dieter Bohm Spheric Universe Experience - Anima French TV ?? |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 06:21
Hi, Mike is Australian and last I read about him, he was a professor and teaching music in Australia. A wonderful and special musician, that when I met and interviewed him had no ego to show and concentrated on the music and only the music, and specially if "... is it too bass'y? ... " Would be nice to have a few more bass players like him, not afraid to be separate/different from the drummer and still be excellent all around. And the best part? He could play with Pierre, Pip and the kid from S2S just as easy. Talk about being versatile and strong ...
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 06:31
| Just glanced through and surprised to see no mention (yet) of Alan Stivell, Shub-Niggurath or Air! All have released excellent progressive albums. I have seen Alan Stivell a couple of times and it reminded me of Shamal-era Gong. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 06:36
Hi, So sad ... but Stivell is listed in one or two others. A lot of folks think of him as some version of Enya, when in fact he was at it long before her, and his first album, was a RCA RED SEAL when it first came out (Renaissance of the Celtic Harp). The Red Seal was a series of the best recordings ever done on anything that had been developed for orchestras at first. It was a series that was very limited, and a few years later also included TOMITA (Snowflakes) in its catalogue. It's a shame that no one has heard the quality of those records, SPECIALLY THEN, because it was something that not even the very best and sonic sound systems could EVER reproduce. We, here on PA, don't even realize or recognize the quality to understand what/how music improved. All we know is hits and solos, and not a whole lot about the fidelity of it all that made the music special in the first place!
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 06:57
Shub-Niggurath are in three honorable mentions lists and are in my top 3. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 07:16
I know it was only glanced through, but Alan Stivell is BrufordFreak's number two choice, and he was one of those with Shub-Niggurath as an honorable mention. Also in Suitkees.... I love Shub-Niggurath myself, but decided to keep my list quite short (already went with a baker's dozen and some more mentions). At another time, it would have made my list. As for Air, I love Air, have known Air longer than most of the Prog I know and still listen to Air regularly, but that didn't even come to mind. I focused on classics, but also Air is not included in PA, and I can understand why. I consider works by the album kind of Prog related (I don't know all of Air's albums) and one might say progressive if not necessarily Prog genre. I most return to the album 10 000 Hz Legend (love "Radian"), as well as Moon Safari and Talkie Walkie. When it comes to those yearly Prog lists, no doubt Air will make mine if I do the years. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 07:22
Alan Stivell was on three lists before you posted this!!! (Which leads to the question: Are you really looking?) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 07:31
| ^ To be fair, he did say glanced. Yesterday my wife told my to look in the freezer for some falafel. I glanced, did not notice it. I looked again harder, still did notice it. It was right at the front but the brain did not register it. My wife was quite upset with me, but sometimes that which is right in front of my eyes does not register. I've actually missed things in forums lately that I've thought I searched for adequately. I have some vision issues, but it's mostly brain issues. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 07:51
Just as in "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 08:11
Thank you Logan, that's exactly what happened!!
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Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 10:14
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Dûn - Eros Moving Gelatine Plates - The World Of Genious Hans Art Zoyd - Symphonie Pour Le Jour Oú Brûleront Les Cités Carpe Diem - En Regardant Passer Le Temps Artcane - Odyssée Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony Atoll - L´Aaaignée-mal Arachnoîd - Arachnoîd Pulsar - Halloween Eider Stellaire - Eider Stellaire Art Zoyd - Génération Sans Futur Nebelnest - Nebelnest Honorable mentions Shylock - Giarlorgues Dark Shot - One Shot Heldon - Stand By Ocarinah - Premiere Vision De L´étrange Talal - Skymind Ange - Au-delá Du Délire Pulsar - The Strands Of The Future
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Posted By: Cylli Kat (0fficial)
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 13:55
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Lazuli - Le Fantastique Envol de Dieter Bohm Lazuli - Saison 8 Keor - Petrichor Seven Reizh - Strinkadenn' Ys Seven Reizh - L'Albatros Spheric Universe Experience - Mental Torments Jean-Pierre Louveton - MMXIV Syrinx - Qualia (A new discovery for me) Kalisia - Cybion Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean Adagio - Underworld Nemo - Coma I know I've missed a bunch (Gong w/ Allan Holdsworth, etc.)... ------------- (Insert Clever Words Here) I'm actually this guy: https://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=17597" rel="nofollow - Cylli Kat |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 00:01
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Shylock - Île de fièvre Heldon - Stand By Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean Laurent Thibault - Mais on ne peut pas rêver tout le temps
Ange - Au-delà du délire Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans Carpe Diem - En regardant passer le temps Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène Taï Phong - Taï Phong Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine Mona Lisa - Le petit violon de Mr. Grégoire Minimum vital - Sarabandes
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 05:43
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What I like very much about 70's French Prog scene, comparing to the Italian, is that it's more diverse stylistically speaking - and that is like the German one, and I guess, it's more influenced by the German. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 06:00
 1978: ALAIN MARKUSFELD - Platock (Psychedelic/Space Rock • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKo0h38KqQ" rel="nofollow - 1977: ALPHA RALPHA - Alpha Ralpha (Eclectic Prog • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cpAZjJGeFk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cpAZjJGeFk 1976: ANDRE FERTIER - Clivage (Indo Prog/Raga/Rock • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBJQsH7V-Rk" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBJQsH7V-Rk 1976: BAHAMAS - Le Voyageur Immobile (Progressive Rock • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdPtXarGiA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdPtXarGiA  1978: CHRISTIAN BOULE - Photo Musik (Progressive Electronic • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b_lgLkYgjA" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b_lgLkYgjA 1973: CLINIC - Now We're Even (Psychedelic Rock • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJTsSpzk9c" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJTsSpzk9c 1990: EURHYBIA - Eurhybia (Neo Prog • France) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhmWTyuTRw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhmWTyuTRw 1981: FALSTAFF - Pronouncez g (Jazz-Rock • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm6HJ8B5Gkw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm6HJ8B5Gkw 1977: IMAGES - Images (Prog Folk • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcivbhEqcD0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcivbhEqcD0 1982: JEAN MICHEL DESBOUIS - Prince (Progressive Electronic • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JutX_ziHXM%A0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JutX_ziHXM 1979: JEAN PIERRE ALARCEN - Tableau No. 1 (Symphonic Prog • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW-B3ylQDy4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW-B3ylQDy4 1982: THALASSA - Suffer and Misery (Symphonic Prog • France) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6IZVtde0Es" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6IZVtde0Es |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 06:28
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^Paul, sorry, but I can't help like thinking that your list here is somehow similar to the one on " http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127648" rel="nofollow - A-Z of Psychedelic Rock: Part I ". Where do you find all that stuff?
Edit: Even I'm familiar with some of these names. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 06:59
You're not too far off the mark. I copied and pasted the albums from my Prog Line blog, just as I did with the American albums on Grumpy's thread. Luckily, it came to precisely twelve French albums, even though I hadn't planned it that way.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 07:19
I guess, I agree with that. Edit: But I can tell about myself that I've found more of my newer Prog on the French scene than on the Italian, which you can get an impression of, when comparing my lists presented here.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 09:01
Ookaay, that sounds good, and you can be praised for promoting "obscure" music. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 15:04
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Ripaille Wurdah Guet Apens Interface Ile de fievre ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 07:22
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alphabetically, with only one per artist Dan Ar Braz - Douar Nevez
Asia Minor - Between Flesh and Divine Avaric - s/t Mirage - Tales from the Green Sofa Motis - Prince des Hauteurs Pentacle - Le Clef Des Songes Pulsar - Gorlitz Seven Reizh - Strinkadenn Ys Silver Lining - The Inner Dragon Alan Stivell - Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique Tai Phong - s/t Tri Yann - Belle et Rebelle |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 08:42
Hi, It doesn't. PERIOD! Of all nationalities, to be fair, only Damo's thread on Japanese music is the goat ... for many years, it has been a staple of listening for me. Guy Guden, myself and many others had been into the Japanese thing since at least 1974 or 1975, to give you an idea (along with all the others on Space Pirate Radio!!!!!). You will be severely hard pressed to find a nationality that Guy has not played thoroughly ... and we're not talking just one 3 minute song!!!!! PA's fans, are too much enthralled with the "top 5" or the "top 10" and a lot of questions are about _________ (anything) about those posts, and then, if not enough, your favorite this or that, and some three quarters of the time it is the same 5 or 10 folks all over again ... no mention of anyone else, like the Japanese did not play keyboards and could not possibly have a monster keyboard player!!!!! GET ceREAL! While I have heard a lot, at my age, I don't think I could devote enough time and effort to hearing a country's output. You would think that Portuguese or Brazilian materials would grab me quickly, but when you read someone trashing Egberto Gismonti, and other responders did not set the guy right, you know right away that this is probably not the right place for those nationalities to be shown and appreciated. It's actually very sad, and when you hear the monster material being played on Space Pirate Radio, from even more places than we can imagine ... all that can be said is that ... the earth is STILL flat ... and we have not gone around the world! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 10:43
I think you got a point there. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 10:57
Don't encourage him. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 11:16
...or at least there could be more discussion.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 12:41
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Sharing personal regional lists of favorites (and looking at what others post) for me is just an effective way of exchanging listening reccomendations. At least it is for me. I've never given a flying f**k about lists or charts or popularity or any of that. But this isn’t just the same 5 or ten folks over and over again. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 21 2021 at 08:18
Hi, The hard part is explaining to many of these folks that "top" this or that, or "favorite" this or that, never has factored in my tastes for music, which are spread out all over the world, thus, my ability to state a favorite of any band is really hard and not worth the hassle. When you have listened to music diligently for 60 years, and appreciated all different kinds of them, from classical, to folk, to jazz, to rock, to musicals, to this, to that ... you name it, as a person that loves music and appreciates it to no end, the idea of "favorite" is ridiculous and crazy! I have some things I love to listen to now and then, but they are all already in my heart and I don't have to play it again to remind me of what I missed. This would be the case for AD2, Ange, Banco, Can and many others ... I guess they could be considered "favorites" but I have never looked at them as a nationality other than that of music! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: November 21 2021 at 08:23
I am absolutely with you here, Pedro! To me, attempting to work out my favourite or top artists or albums is ridiculous and crazy. There’s just too much I love, spread across time and place. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 21 2021 at 09:15
Considered entirely in general, I feel pretty much the same. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 19:17
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In no particular order: Gong - You Atoll L'arignee Mal Ange - Guet-Apens Magma - KA Magma - 1001 Degrees Centigrade Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh Eskaton - 4 Visions Andre Fertier's Clivage - Mixtus Orbis Shylock - Ile De Fievre Clearlight - Clearlight Symphony Carpe Diem - En Regarde Passe Le Temps ------------- Z |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: November 29 2021 at 19:54
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only 12? Impossible is not French! Better known: 1- Children in Paradise- Essylt 2- Alpha Ralpha- s/t 3- Ange- Au Dela du Delire 4- JL Ponty- Enigmatic Ocean 5- Tai Phong- s/t 6- Pulsar- Gorlitz 7- Pierre Moerlen Gong- Gazeuse 8- Nemo-Coma 9- Seven Reizh- Strinkadenn Ys 10- Shylock- Ile de Fievre 11- Patrick Broguiere- Mont St-Michel 12- Taal- Skymind Less known 1- ADN- Prelude 2- Artcane- Odyssee 3- Xang- Destiny of Dreams 4- Synopsis- Gamme 5- Neo- s/t 6- Ose- Adonia 7- Acanthe- Someone somewhere 8- Elixir- Sabbat 9- Elohim- La manna Perdu 10- Eidolon- Dreamland 11- Mandragore- A Revivre le Futur 12- Vent D'Est- s/t hons: Maldoror, Molecule, Pentacle, Mona Lisa, Skryvania, Darkshot, Silver Lining, Motis, Angipatch, Minimum Vital, Eclat, Carpe Diem. New artist called Phog has 4 awesome albums ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: November 30 2021 at 07:14
How about Danish Prog? Since you are located in Copenhagen, I would be curious to learn your Top 10/12 Danish Prog albums. My fave French Prog albums are (1 album per band as requested, in alphabetic order): Abus Dangereux - Le Quatrieme Mouvement (1980) Ange - Au-Dela Du Delire (1974) Arachnoid - Arachnoid (1979) Atoll - L'Araignee Mal (1975) Carpe Diem - En Regardant Passer Le Temps (1976) Dün - Eros (1981) Eskaton - 4 Visions (1980) Etron Fou Leloublan - Les Poumons Gonfles (1982) Magma - Kohntarkosz (1974) Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans (1972) Pentacle - La Clef des Songes (1975) Wurtemberg - Rock Fantasia Opus 9 (1980) Gong - "You" would make my list, but I don't consider them as French band (Various, not French)
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 30 2021 at 07:56
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Welcome very much to your contribution here, as well, Enigmatic. "Danish Prog"? Well, such a thing it's not so much worth for consideration, if you ask me, maybe except from Prog Metal - even I surely could recommend for instance Secret Oyster's Sea Sun, which I find allmost as good as the best of American Jazz-Rock. So, I'm afraid, I won't be the one who makes a thread about it, but I can tell you that Mirakaze have plans for Swedish and Norwegian threads, which are something entirely else by my opinion, as well. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 30 2021 at 09:23
But at your request, I'd be happy to post here my favourite Danish Prog albums, okay? - which you maybe just was asking for.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 30 2021 at 09:40
So, here it comes, my Danish Prog favourites (all  of them):3. Ache - De Homine Urbano (1970) 4. Bazaar - Bazaar Live (1978) 2. Burnin’ Red Ivanhoe - W.W.W. (1971) 1. Secret Oyster - Sea Sun 1974) 6. Sievert, Tolonen - After Three Days (1978) 5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa (1983) (it's more Heavy than Prog Metal, but anyway) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: November 30 2021 at 10:13
There are at least 3 Danish Prog albums that are pretty high in my book: Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - M144, not extremely progressive, maybe that's why low ratings on PA? I would put this album in jazzy psych/proto-prog category. Coma - Financial Tycoon - jazz-rock/fusion with Zappa influence. Less known album because for many years not available on CD format. Culpeper's Orchard - S/T - this is more of a conventional rock album with some prog-y and folk-y elements They are not essential but definitely excellent addition to any prog rock fan collection. Ache - De Homine Urbano would be next on my list. Thanks David_D for you Top 6 of Danish Prog. I see it now.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 30 2021 at 10:47
This one is well known and high-rated on RYM.
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: January 30 2022 at 15:24
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PULSAR : Halloween ATOLL : L'araignée-mal ANGE : Au delà du délire NEBELNEST : Same XANG: Destiny of a dream SYRINX : Reification MAGMA : Live (aka Hhai) ANGE : cimetière des arlequins WEIDORJE : Same (Zeuhl) and some other from : Atoll/Ange/Nebelnest/Taal/Wapassou... |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: February 11 2022 at 01:38
I discovered this album about a week ago. A great album!  ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 11 2022 at 02:35
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I would like to mention an artist that as far as I saw has not been mentioned before: the French guitar player Christian Boulé. I highly recommend his two solo albums "Photo Musik" (yes, with a "k") and "Non-Fiction". here example tracks from both albums: -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |