genre: prog
country: france
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, booklet scans)
time: 43'06" size: 271 mb
Scented Gardens Of The Mind:
This album was the brainchild of record engineer and producer Jean-Pierre Massiera. Like Visitors, Atlantide was not a real group but just a recording concept. The resulting album shares the same flaws and oddities as the Visitors album, being an unspectactular mixture of quasi-psychedelic heavy rock mixed with more symphonic ingredients. The instru-mentation is rudimentary for a French production, largely guitars with some electronic effects (and mellotron on just one track). It contains irritating falsetto vocals and clichй heavy riffs, much like the worst of Vanilla Fudge, Uriah Heep or the Italian New Trolls and the drum solos are, as always, superfluous, especially when the album clocks in at just 32 minutes. Some acoustic guitar parts are reminscent of Steve Hackett. This is a weak and ill-focused album. Some of the session musicians also played with Visitors, Orion and Carpe Diem.
1. Atlantide (8:44)
2. Le Regard Des Dieux (2:53)
3. Images (4:16)
4. Soleil Noir (12:15)
5. Reverie (3:12)
6. Egg (Bonus Track) (1:10)
7. The Lonely Man (Bonus Track) (3:38)
8. Rainbows All Around (Bonus Track) (4:13)
9. Delusion (Bonus Track) (2:40)
Patrick Attali/vocals
Bernard Torelli/guitar,sitar(1),mellotron
Aldo Lacomelli/bass,backing vocals
Jean-Marc Moutain/drums, backing vocals
Jean-Luc Crema/bongons
Jean-Pierre Massiera/backing vocals
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