Best Harmonium album
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Topic: Best Harmonium album
Posted By: Bern
Subject: Best Harmonium album
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 13:47
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What is your favorite album from this great band? It is a shame they are not well known because they really deserve some attention. BTW, I voted for L'Heptade  -------------  
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Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 14:37
You'r cruel... a very difficult choice here  But I voted for "L'Heptade" cause it's difinitly the most accomplished work at the semiological level that's Harmonium reached... but "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison" is also an awesome effort... ------------- [IMG]http://www.painofsalvation.com/news/images/a-collage-change.jpg"> |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 15:06
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 15:14
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My vote too... A MASTERPIECE! But the other 2 albums are also great... it's a pity that Harmonium released only 3 studio works. ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
ANDREW wrote:Posted By: pierreolivier
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 15:34
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My favorite is "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison" but I like l'Heptade a lot too but it's not as pastoral as "Les cinq saisons". The first eponymous is not prog, it's a folk-pop album IMOV. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 03:32
I would call it folk prog too,( like the other two) but it is more song oriented This album , just 5 saisons , has been accompanying love-making sessions in the last 30 years in my life And their debut is maybe the best way to introduce a non-prog fan to Harmonium, then get him/her over to 5 Saisons, before heading towards Genesis ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: BebieM
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 11:57
| I love "Si on avait ....", is L'Heptade anywhere near as good? |
Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 14:30
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I voted "Si ut..." because it's simply amazing. I've heard the lyrics are very good too, and if anyone could help me out by PM me with translated (English) versions of the lyrics I'd be eternally grateful. BTW I've only heard L'Heptade all the way through 4 times or so...whenever I hear it I think "Hmmm I'd like to hear 'Sit ut..' right now..." and i go listen to it! ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 15:15
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If you like Harmonium, it might also be worth checking out Au-dela des ombres by Ere G. Check them out right here on Prog Archives if you haven't heard of them before. Another fine example of Quebecois prog! 
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 15:35
I only heard their debut and sin on avait... and from those 2 i go with de later. It's one of the best albums I've heard and deserves to be the best ------------- 
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Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 15:37
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Why, L'Heptade, of course! It's one of my top 5 albums of all time, by
anyone, in any genre. Just sooooo beautiful. ------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: pierreolivier
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 15:49
The first album had very little prog IMHV. Maybe it's because I live in Quebec,where the songs of the first album like "Pour un instant" and "Un musicien parmi tant d'autres" are heard very often on the commercial radio since 30 years.The same cited songs also featuring in every 24th of june in every Saint-Jean Baptiste show and firecamp guitar jamboree (national day in Quebec).I think the first album put a shade on the 2 others, at least in Quebec where the majority of the population(and not prog listeners) know the first album but not the two others.To add to the insult,The same 2 songs I mentionned from the eponymous album are interpreted by Star Academie participants (the french equivalent of American or Canadian Idols)and when a song is played there, that mean they are very popular songs. The live "En tournée" album is excellent and personnally like it better than L'Heptade.The arrangements are more powerful, more jazz-rock oriented and the keyboards are more present than the original (wich is very good too!). |
Posted By: Laurent
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 18:42
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Gotta go with the amazing L'Heptade.
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