Salon des musiques progressives du Québec

MichelNeurophile wrote: Tsevir Leirbag wrote: I can see you're from Québec!  Yeah, I agree with what you said. I'm now trying to add June Wallack to this site. Offenbach, I think it's already here (it must!). Robert Charlebois has some prog elements but he had different eras where he made different music. Aren't you the one who posted Octobre's L'oiseau Rouge and Charlebois' Québec Love or Tout écartillé (I don't remember) on YouTube?  And I'm not sure if you knew but Raoûl Duguay also participated to Maneige's Les porche. Bienvenue sur le site! Yes I'm the one, for Octobre and Maneige's videos. Good luck about June Wallack, and also Offenbach because they aren't in Prog Archives !  Michel.

Everything by Harmonium. Conventum too. This may sound pretentious but I have often enjoyed playing Harmonium during a snow blizzard with a view from a window.

Tsevir Leirbag wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Tsevir Leirbag wrote: MichelNeurophile wrote: Tsevir Leirbag wrote: I can see you're from Québec!  Yeah, I agree with what you said. I'm now trying to add June Wallack to this site. Offenbach, I think it's already here (it must!). Robert Charlebois has some prog elements but he had different eras where he made different music. Aren't you the one who posted Octobre's L'oiseau Rouge and Charlebois' Québec Love or Tout écartillé (I don't remember) on YouTube?  And I'm not sure if you knew but Raoûl Duguay also participated to Maneige's Les porche. Bienvenue sur le site! Yes I'm the one, for Octobre and Maneige's videos. Good luck about June Wallack, and also Offenbach because they aren't in Prog Archives !  Michel.   Offenbach? Not here!?  It's a crime  I'll have to suggest it. I don't think I'll have problems with Wallack. Gab     Jude Wallack.... are you ready to write her bio??? I will open the artiste entry page with your bio of her andthen you can add her album(s)   Offenbach is trickier .... we already had a hard time convincing with Octobre, soooooo you can imagine that Offenbach will be tougher, despite their first two albums..... We'll ask for prog related soopn   Beau Dommage, we've done the demand for prog-related, but let"s face it, outside Bois Filion, there isn't much prog    Yeah, for Beau Dommage, I agree. For Offenbach, I understand. For June Wallack: I'm now working on Medeski, Martin & Wood's (Jazz-Rock/Fusion) bio, but soon as I'm finished with this one, I'll start Wallack's. Is it good?

I may have missed it, but why no Talisma???

Edited by Slartibartfast - August 25 2009 at 15:02

Tsevir Leirbag wrote: infandous wrote: Tsevir Leirbag wrote: infandous wrote: Harmonium, Maneige, Miriodor  All great.  Only one album each by the first two, but both incredible.  Have 2 Miriodor album, saw them live at NF '03 preshow.  Great, great band.   I will miss Miriodor's gig at the Gésu, Montréal because it was too much expensive; this month, I already paid 95$ to see Excubus, Rouge Ciel, DFA and Le Orme on a saturday. Miriodor is playing on the next day and it costs 35, if I remember well. How were they live? They were fantastic.  They were the first of three bands, and the next two (Izz and some fusion band who's name I can't recall) seemed a real let down in comparison (and Izz is a great band).  They are Avante/RIO, but very melodic.  Would love to see them again, but I'm far from Quebec myself   You mean Miriodor or Izz when you say you'd like to see them again?

Heh, I have seen Izz since then, great band.  But I meant Miriodor.  I'd love to see them again.

Garolou is perhaps mpre folk prog than prog folk, but our team was pretty unanimous on including them.  Now if I could just find some decent information!

I grew up in Quebec in the 70s, an Anglophone Montrealer listening to CHOM-FM as the DJs switched from French to English and back in the same sentence.  I also enjoyed CKOI.  I was more partial to the folkier groups like Garolou, Barde, Reve du Diable, but also enjoyed Seguin, Harmonium, Beau Dommage.  I had more trouble with Offenbach and Aut' Chose, just not my thing.  Later I grew to appreciate what I heard from Maneige. 

Of the current Quebecois groups I enjoy Talisma, Kaos Moon, Daniel Gauthier (who should be here).  I also enjoy Orealis, who recorded in the 90s.

Ken

re: Garolou (first known as Lougarou) - I had the good fortune to pick up about 15 RPQ LPs at Spin-It in the last two years. Seems a Universite de Moncton professor has gone through his collection and decided to get rid of some.
Anyway ... I've got Breche, Le Match, l'Engoulevent ... so i wonder why Garolou isn't in as well.
Others that have yet to be mentioned here - Leitmotiv ... if you lwonder what a marriage of  Maneige & Genesis would sound like , this is it. Not much synth or mellotron, with the piano as the main instrument. You can download their album free, and pay for it after if you like it.
Don't forget Etcetera - RPQ's mellow version of Gentle Giant.
Not here yet - Eclipse and Caramel Fou.

MichelNeurophile wrote: kenethlevine wrote: Garolou is perhaps mpre folk prog than prog folk, but our team was pretty unanimous on including them.  Now if I could just find some decent information.(...) Ken There is a biography of Garolou at this site : http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp?artistid=343 Michel.

thank you much!

I can see there's a lot to explore here - I'll be revisiting this thread often!  merci a tout!

Another artist that should REALLY be added, I think, is Roger Rodier. He only made one album, an obscure gem. Rare are the people who know him. He's doing some kind of Psychedelic/Folk Prog music.