The obvious: - Richard Pinhas! Solo or with Heldon.....the Krautiest French prog out there.
- Magma.....Christian Vander's Kobaian language!
- Pulsar.....the Floydiest French prog I've heard.
- Ange......the first two albums from the Decamp brothers' band were excellent.....but all the songs were in French, which is why they didn't make it bigger.
- Pierre Moerlen's Gong.....the post-Hillage band ('76- around 1980) revolved around Moerlen.
- UZEB....not French from France but French from Quebec.....I guess it ain't really French then, eh?
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Another one that I just listened to for the first time is Qualia by modern jazz-prog quartet Syrinx; it's some of the best stuff I've heard from the past 10 years. Plenty of atmospheric acoustic guitar and mellotron that gives a unique mood, combining jazz and symphonic textures very well. I'd highly recommend it.
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zravkapt wrote:
MAGMA Kohntarkosz WEIDORJE Weidorje ESKATON 4 Visions MOVING GELATINE PLATES The World Of Genius Hans HELDON Stand By ARACHNOID Arachnoid VISITORS Visitors CARPE DIEM En regardant passer le temps ART ZOYD Generation sans futur ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN Les poumons gonfles
Nice list......
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MAGMA Kohntarkosz WEIDORJE Weidorje ESKATON 4 Visions MOVING GELATINE PLATES The World Of Genius Hans HELDON Stand By ART ZOYD Generation sans futur ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN Les poumons gonfles
Pretty much my list, add Shub Niggurath, Setna, obviously some Magma, Jean Michel Jarre, PoiL
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This French quartet's only album is paradigmatic of what was happening to rock musicians faced with
both overwhelming odds and the astounding musical breakthroughs of the 1970s. Like many, the group
probably figured this whole art thing would last forever. Rock would surely continue to expand into
even greater areas previously unrealized. I mean, how could things go back? The public seemed to
agree as evidenced by progressive rock's impressive chart listings and perfect storm of
inspiration and timing. And it would be all but over by the end of the decade.
Pentacle's music is both intricate and humble, and the material here seems to have been composed
in a flurry of activity during 1974/75 when the band - founded by friends Michel Roy (drums) and
Gerard Ruez (guitars) - had after several years of gigging found the right line-up of gifted
keyboardist Claude Menetrier and the rare talents of bassist/composer Richard Treiber. Evidently so
turgid were the compositions that producer Jean-Claude Pognant [Ange] asked that they be shortened,
a request warily agreed to by the band. But on stage they were able to expand their work with three
of those live versions added to the Musea reissue. The opener starts unremarkably and the Ange
comparisons are fair though the sound may also remind of Italians Le Orme with wafts of Bo Hansson
in the background. Trieber's bass parts are the star along with Menetrier's synths supported
admirably by founders Ruez and Roy. 'Naufrage' is better, ending solidly with a nice keyboard/drum
exchange followed by full-powered symph rocker 'L'ame du Guerrier'-- 6 minutes of thematic
development, good vocals and a great sense of soft-to-hard dynamism, Ruez's minstrel acoustics, and
plenty of feeling. 'Les Pauvres' is French romance at its most poignant featuring Gerard Ruez's
whispers of longing. Menetrier's elegiacal organ leads plodder 'Complot' and it wraps with
eleven-minute 'Le Raconteur', a piece with good moments as well as disappointing ones.
The band deserves the love, of that there is little doubt, though this album's legend may only grow
so large. Pentacle are a band that causes all weepy-eyed prog romantics to warm to them, and to
want to extend a hand if 35 years too late.
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zravkapt wrote:
This French quartet's only album is paradigmatic of what was happening to rock musicians faced with
both overwhelming odds and the astounding musical breakthroughs of the 1970s. Like many, the group
probably figured this whole art thing would last forever. Rock would surely continue to expand into
even greater areas previously unrealized. I mean, how could things go back? The public seemed to
agree as evidenced by progressive rock's impressive chart listings and perfect storm of
inspiration and timing. And it would be all but over by the end of the decade. 