ET LE TROISIÈME JOUR

I have to agree with Hugues that this is one of the best albums to come out of Quebec. Released in 1976 it's hard to believe that this was on Capital Records. This is Electronic soundscape music for the most part but man I'm blown away at the compositions and ideas here. I actually listened to "Deux" first which is their second album but just wasn't that into it and seeing just about everyone rates it higher than this the debut I didn't even give this a spin until just recently and was promptly putting it into my rotation. This is my music. A duo of drums and electronics but these two play almost everything conceivable when it comes to percussions and keyboards. A guest 6 member choir is on a couple of tracks along with a female soprano singer who is amazing.

Each side is a suite broken down into tracks with side one being composed in June of 1975 while side two was created in February of '75. Two very different pieces with the second side going into darker territories including the longest song on here "Possession/Destination" at almost 11 minutes being a great example of this. So much atmosphere on this record and side two gets haunting at times. Love the choir and female vocals on "Chant d'Espoir" which is divided into two parts on the cd but is one track on vinyl.

When I do my Electronic list this will be right up there with the greats. A must-have for fans of adventerous music out there.