genre: prog
country: france
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans)
time: 34'43" size: 261 mb
misc.: japan
Scented Gardens of Mind:
This is one of the best known French rock poets, meaning you'll need a good understanding of the language to really appreciate his albums. His style is vaguely similar to Pete Brown or Daevid Allen, distinguished by emotional verbal rantings. His first album was centered around a 20-minute French version (lyrics by Boris Bergman) of Arlo Guthrie's composition "Alice's Restaurant", supervised by Guthrie himself. This album has period charm to a certain degree, although Booz's style developed enormously on subsequent efforts.
Le Jour où les Vaches... was much stronger musically with some illustrious orchestral arrangements by William Sheller. The overall feeling is frequently disturbing and unsettled. Emmanuel Booz is generally considered to be one of the leading French singer-poets of the seventies.
1. L'ôde aux rats (16:08)
2. La symphonie catastrophique (9:50)
3. Armoire et persil (8:29)
Jean-Claude D'Agostini / guitar
Charlie Charrieras / bass (1,2)
Maurice Mathias / drums (1,2)
Gilles Tinayre / keyboards, synthesizer, piano
Didier Lockwood / violin (1)
Jean-Louis Mahjun / alto violin (1)
Gérard Pisani / bass clarinet, soprano, bugle (1)
Philippe Briche / piano (1)
Roger Doereux / electronic piano (2)
Pierre Blanchard / violin (2)
Jean Schultheis / drums (3)
Gérard Levavasseur / bass (3)
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