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4.02 | 13 ratings | 2 reviews | 38% 5 stars Write a review Buy X-LEGGED SALLY Music from Progarchives.com partners

Studio Album, released in 1997 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Nuages Gris (4:15) 2. Brungle (23:53) 3. 3 of 2 Poetretten Van Een Drenkeling (5:28) 4. Out Of The Pit (2:57) 5. Birdcage (10:15) 6. Der Doppelganger (3:41) 7. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair (7:08) Total Time: 57:37 Line-up / Musicians - Paul Belgrado / bass - Danny Van Hoeck / drums - Peter Vermeersch / winds - Bart Maris / winds - Michel Mast / saxes - Peter Vandenberghe / keyboards, accordeon - Gery Cambier / double bass, percussions The Smith Quartet: - Deirdre Cooper / cello - Ian Humphries / violin - Charles Mutter / violin - Nick Pendlebury / viola Releases information Megadisc MDC 7843 Thanks to Sean Trane for the addition and to Sean Trane for the last updates Edit this entry

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X-LEGGED SALLY Bereft Of A Blissful Union ratings distribution

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(38%)

Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(38%)

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Review by Sean Trane
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Folk

This album is the music developed for a ballet or choreographed modern dance, written for the most part by leader Vermeersch but recorded with the help of British String Smith Quartet. Again, if you know this crazy Sally, you will know you are in for a gigantic roller-coaster ride, and in this case I believe the live shows must've been worth the price of the entrance to the hall, since it appears that part of the dancing happened under water and without breathing apparatus.

The album is book-ended by two classical pieces (the closing one being particularly interesting), but clearly the show's centrepiece is the 24 min Brungle, that comes complete with complete madness, a superb horn arrangements, exciting strings and wild drumming: stupendous. The other major track is the 10 min+ Birdcage starting out as a wild but controlled modern classical music. Another climax is the only sung track Out Of The Pit. Der doppelganger is a rearrangement of a Schubert piece.

This album is the last one to have come out under the X-L S name, but this is a fantastic exit for an extraordinary group. Very worthy and yet another superb chamber prog album.

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