ET LE TROISIÈME JOUR

In 1975 keyboardist Michel-Georges Bregent, known for his work on Brégent with his brother Jacques, teamed up with the experienced percussionist Vincent Dionne, a hard worker, who had been colaborating with several ensembles and artists since 1968, forming the Dionne/Bregent duo.With a contract under the support of Capitol they recorded their debut ''...Et le troisieme jour'' in 1976.The whole album is based on Bregent's keyboards and Dionne's percussion with the only help coming in the choir parts from a list of guest singers, among them operatic soprano Pauline Vaillancourt and Judi Richards, who was a singer for the Disco band Toulouse around the time.

Dionne/Bregent's debut release unleashes two different faces, each connected with the two sides of the LP.The opening one is haunting and slightly experimental keyboard-based Electronic Music with strong TANGERINE DREAM hints.Performed on analog synthesizers, organ, percussion and vibraphone this is trully floating and cosmic music, becoming more tasteful with the presence of someking of Gregorian-type chants and the operatic voice of Vaillancourt.The best piece is propably the very atmospheric ''Resurrection'', evolving from a Mellotron-drenched prelude to a CYBORTON-type of spacey Electronic Music with repetitive percussions supporting.The flipside is as if it has been recorded by another act.The long 11-min. ''Possession / Destination'' tends to Avant-Garde experimentalism, being a boring piece of abstract industrial noises akin to FRANCO BATTIATO's minimalistic works, where the duo reputedly experimented with the sound of glass jugs and metal sheets.From this point on the album looses totally its direction and never fully recovers.The remaining cuts are full of sound effects, loops and experimental sounds with no evident cohesion and almost total absence of natural instruments, apart from some sporadic organ and synths performed by Bregent.

An album that starts as a decent effort of Electronic Music with both dark and ethereal movements, ends up to be a hard experimental listening even for the mystified fans of the genre.Recommended only to fans of dissonant and industrial Experimental/Electronic Music.