Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
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Artist: HarmoniumEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-01-08
Music Label: Universal
Soundtracks:
- Vert
- Dixie
- Depuis L'automne
- En Pleine Face
- Histoires Sans Paroles
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Free Music Review: This only proves there's much more to Quebec than Celine Dion
Hit: 5 Stars
It's too bad that not much music from Quebec is known here in America. Down here we associate that province with Celine Dion who inflicted us through the years with mush (had she not decided to sing in English by 1990, us Americans would have been spared from her). As a prog rock fan, I am so glad to discover in the 1970s that the province had much to offer in the way of prog rock. Getting albums from the likes of Pollen, Et Cetera, Opus 5 and Sloche only proves that (I also discovered the members of Et Cetera and Pollen had later played for Celine Dion)!
Harmonium is regarded as one of Quebec's finest in the world of prog. But like England's Strawbs, they had folk origins (not that Harmonium sounds anything like The Strawbs, just that both started as folk groups that later became prog acts). Their self-entitled 1974 debut was pretty much a straight-ahead folk-rock album with drums on several cuts. Basically one of those good albums that will only demonstrate better things to come (which they delivered). That album became popular in Quebec. It's with their second album, Si On Avait Besoin D'une 5ième Saison, (or Les Cinq Saisons for short), released in 1975 on the Célébration label, where the band got serious on prog rock. The drums were dropped entirely for this album (it's their only album without drums). They included a keyboardist, Serge Locat who included some majestic Mellotron work on the album's two key cuts. The album was inspired by the seasons including that fictional "fifth season". But they hadn't abandoned their folk roots either as it's still quite obvious throughout the album, a prime example going to "En Pleine Face". "Vert" is that album's opening cut, I really dig the use of electric piano and sax in this piece. "Dixie" is the band's odd exploration into Dixieland complete with clarinet, but with that folky acoustic feel. Then there "Depuis L'Automne" is the album's first epic. It still starts off rather folky, but then this piece includes some really stunning Mellotron passages sure to please any fan of this instrument! "En Pleine Face" is a more straight-up folk number with a strong French feel, especially the use of accordion. Have you wondered what that eerie sound that starts this piece? Well it's Marie Bernard Pagé (who only guests here) and her Ondes Martenot. If you're as familiar with Quebecois prog as me, her name might seem familiar, it's because she was a member of Et Cetera where she also handled lead vocals as well as the Odnes Martenot (Et Cetera is much closer to Gentle Giant in sound than Harmonium). Then you have the side-length "Histoire Sans Paroles". It's an epic piece, it starts off rather lightweight, but the tone gets darker and Serge Locat really delivers some fantastic Mellotron work. There's some wordless voices from Judy Richard, who only guested on this piece.
While I seen Harmonium get compared to the likes of Celeste (the Italian band), probably because the group's more pastoral approach to prog rock, as well as Mellotron, they pretty much have a sound all their own. While many other Quebecois prog rock band got influenced by Gentle Giant one way or another (like Pollen, Sloche, Opus 5, Maneige and especially Et Cetera), Harmonium did not. Regardless, like Sloche's J'un Oeil and Stadacone, the one and only albums from Et Cetera and Pollen, Opus 5's Contre Courant, and all the Maneige albums up to Self-Service, I really think Harmonium's Les Cinq Saisons is simply one of the greats to come out of Quebec and a great place to start if you want to know what prog was like in that province!
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