Le Monde en Etages. 1970 EMI
Le Monde en Etages is a great psychedelic, proto-progressive type album. Has some of those unique French touches that penetrate most albums from there (effected vocal styles, weird sonic changes, experimental bits). Not to mention the sublime Hendrix styled guitar. Excellent.
More exploratory and adventurous than the debut, Le Son Tombé du Ciel is perhaps Markusfeld's finest work within a creative period that spans throughout the 1970s. He continues his love affair with Hendrix, and the psychedelic blues rock numbers on here prove it. But there's a new dimension added, one that is based in experimentalism, jazz, and folk. These latter elements show up in the incredible pleasant atmosphere, rather than as dissonant noise. In fact the last track 'Eve' is immensely beautiful, the female wordless voices taking you to a different world. This latter track seemingly the blueprint for the Lourival Silvestre "Fiction Musicale" album that would come along a few years later. Overall, an album that is very French, and I mean that as a high compliment. The album is housed in an incredible textured (single sleeve) cover and would be an excellent Japanese mini-LP candidate.
Need to review Le Desert Noir.
Le Son Tombe Du Ciel. 1971 EMI
Le Desert Noir. 1977 Egg
Platock. 1978 Egg
Le Desert Noir. 1977 Egg
Platock. 1978 Egg
Contemporus. 1979 Visa / Egg
Perhaps the most unheralded of all French progressive rock artists of the 1970s, Alain Markusfeld had no less than six albums throughout the 70s and early 80s, and none have seen a CD or LP reissue.
Le Monde en Etages is a great psychedelic, proto-progressive type album. Has some of those unique French touches that penetrate most albums from there (effected vocal styles, weird sonic changes, experimental bits). Not to mention the sublime Hendrix styled guitar. Excellent.
More exploratory and adventurous than the debut, Le Son Tombé du Ciel is perhaps Markusfeld's finest work within a creative period that spans throughout the 1970s. He continues his love affair with Hendrix, and the psychedelic blues rock numbers on here prove it. But there's a new dimension added, one that is based in experimentalism, jazz, and folk. These latter elements show up in the incredible pleasant atmosphere, rather than as dissonant noise. In fact the last track 'Eve' is immensely beautiful, the female wordless voices taking you to a different world. This latter track seemingly the blueprint for the Lourival Silvestre "Fiction Musicale" album that would come along a few years later. Overall, an album that is very French, and I mean that as a high compliment. The album is housed in an incredible textured (single sleeve) cover and would be an excellent Japanese mini-LP candidate.
Need to review Le Desert Noir.
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8/23/09 (new entry)
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