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Carpe Diem - En regardant passer le temps CD (album) cover

EN REGARDANT PASSER LE TEMPS

Carpe Diem

 

Eclectic Prog

3.75 | 126 ratings

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lor68
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4 stars Musea, a fertile French label, gave us an old "jewel" (in the early nineties) coming from the school of Ange and related French 70's bands. They belonged to the so called "Crypto" Records, along with other interesting groups such as Pentacle, Monalisa and so on. Mainly an instrumental ensemble with a few vocal parts, They were able to produce some pretty harmonic lines, being quite technical musicians. Their interplay between the sax and the keyboards or the flute and the guitars was a great imprinting in the middle-seventies, as a reference for the whole Romantic Prog scene in France. It's incredible their mix in between, sometimes resembling the style of the early "romantic" King Crimson, which is suddenly abandoned as They play according a different sound "Camel-oriented" (think of "Mirage"): this is their search of "airy" melodies and pretty instrumental interplays in the same time, able to make this album a classic one and a must have for all seasons...honestly the unique defect is a bit of discontinuity and a few uneven breaks through, in which They lose their direction for a while, but after all it is an old album dated 1975 and at that time you couldn't listen to anything better within this music genre!!

A classic album, deserving a 3 stars at least!!

lor68 | 4/5 |

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