... D'UN AUTRE MONDE

Sitting here writing this review, I must start with one off hand comment - if it wasn't for the fact that I had already picked up Procreation & La Marche des Hommes at Spin-It (second hand record shop), this Morse Code album would have been the last I bought from them. It is a decent record. But it brings to mind a mix of Francis Cabrel fronting a rock band (On N'ait d'un Autre Monde), of Eric Lapointe detouring from his descent into Quebec's Mr Power Ballad back to, at the very least, the radio rocker he used to be (la Terre cesse pas de tourner), and overall, a heavier version of pop group the Box( Memoire du Sang), and basically a mish mash of AOR Hard Rock that is still present in the mainstream Quebec music playlists. The only reminder of their prog years is limited to L'ombre de ton Miroir, with its' light jazzy melody and playing. Casino does bring to mind the sound of latter day Ange, but Christian Decamps vocals & lyrics provide the little extra that makes their music magic to my ears, whereas this doesn't.

As it is, I am looking forward to playing the LPs I bought to see what the excitement was for this one time Quebec prog leader.

P.S. Neo-prog detractors would have a field day with this album, using it for examples of aspects of the genre that they deride for being too AOR rather than prog. And I like Neo !