Artist: Ange
Album: Tome 87
Year: 1987
Country : France
label : Muséa FGBG 4444.AR
Style: Progressive Rock
Genre: symphonic prog, prog-fol, theatrical rock
Format: ape (image) cue, log, md5 & full artcover.
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Source: friend's cd collectionFormed in late 1969 by brothers Christian Descamps (vocals) and Francis Descamps (keyboards) and later joined by guitarist Jean-Michel Brézovar, bassist Daniel Haas and Gérard Jelsh on drums, this French symphonic progressive rock band, similar to contemporaries such as Genesis and King Crimson, is undoubtedly France's most important prog band. Marrying prog rock influences with French folk and theatrical vocals à la Jacques Brel (Ange covered Ces Gens-là from Brel, and it turned out to be their first hit in 1970), Ange's music, but mostly their lyrics, are second to none. Thirty years later, after multiple lineup changes, charismatic and theatrical frontman Christian Descamps leads the new Ange generation alongside his son Tristan on keyboards, Hassan Hajdi on guitars, Thierry Sidhoun on bass, Caroline Crozat on vocals and Benoît Cazzulini on drums.
The classic line up (except for the drummer which changed often) recorded many cult classics, such as « Caricatures », « Le Cimetière des Arlequins », and a series of masterpieces like « Au-delà du Délire », « Émile Jacotey », « Par les Fils de Mandrin » and « Guet-Apens ». 10 years after « Guet-Apens », the same lineup would reunite and release two albums, « Sève qui Peut » in 1989 and « Les larmes du Dalaï-Lama » in 1992. While being modern, these albums nevertheless
captured the main ingredients unique to Ange. Their latest albums, « Culinaire Lingus » and « ? » see the band as inspired and pertinent as ever, as if Descamps had found the secret of eternal youth.
This band is more than highly recommended, it is mandatory listening for fans of theatrical symphonic progressive rock, especially the period between « Caricatures » and « Guet-Apens ».What is fantastic about this live recording, is maybe not the tracklist played that night of October 1987 but more than probably the electric atmosphere generated by the band in the Zenith, Paris. Eighty % of the hall is filled (ttoal capacity : 5,000). Several opening bands (all French, except Dick Annegarn who is Dutch, but singing in French and partially living in Belgium...) for this event before the great Ange enters the stage.Ange will consider this concert as a repetition for some things to come, because those lads have decided to continue to play together after this event. Sorry for the youngsters who have been played with the band for about ten years. According the information on the sleeve, Ange had only repeated for one week before this concert (remember, almost ten years separates this concert and their last one in this legendary line-up).
The openenig song is a very short version of an unedited track : "Le Chien, La Poubelle et la Rose". Actually, it is only the closing part of this song which is fully played on their first lve album "Tome VI". Maybe the first blunder...
This album is made of eleven tracks. Six of them were already available on their great "Tome VI" which only featured nine songs.
Tracks:
1. Le chien, la poubelle et la rose (thème final) (1:14)
2. Aujourd'hui c'est la fête chez l'apprenti sorcier (3:16)
3. Exode (4:21)
4. Les longues nuits d'Isaac (4:03)
5. Ode à Emile (3:28)
6. Sur la trace des fées (4:45)
7. Le nain de Stanislas (5:47)
8. Fils de lumière (4:27)
9. Le cimetière des Arlequins (11:25)
10. Tout feu tout flamme (4:38)
11. Hymne à la vie (10:20)
Total Time: 56:44 Line-up:- Christian Decamps / vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitars
- Francis Decamps / keyboards, backing vocals, vocals on track 7
- Jean-Michel Brezovar / guitars, backing vocals
- Daniel Haas / bass
- Jean-Pierre Guichard / drums
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