(Review from progarchives.com)

How to describe this absolutely masterful and orgasmic music? Except for a lone number in this album, Maneige is an instrumental group that lets you know right from the start that they will take full advantage of this and will not allow you one second of inattention. The group mixes acoustic and electric instrument with such dexterity that they make it look easy and sound simple.

The 19-min+ title track suite (written by wind player Bergeron) is grabbing by the throat from the first notes, and never letting it go of its grip through its six movement, with its constantly evolving composition and so many different acoustic instruments taking over the previous one and even a rare sung section. The first side closes on a short symphonic (a quartet really) piece.

The flipside starts with Saxinette and Clarophone’s wild adventures and the opening minute could make you think of Genesis’ The Lamb on the second disc But this is quickly forgotten as the two instruments share literally everything mixing blood, trading licks, making love to each other. Bergeron’s sax and Langlois’ clarinet are not just the stars of the show, they eclipse the sun for the duration of the track from shining so hard. Vincent (Jerome’s brother) Langlois’ electric piano solo draws chills in your back, until a weird animal meows like an elephant and the tracks veers into a wild goose chase ending in a chaotic crowd and dying a slow death! The closing track Chromo is a much funkier track that is a harbinger of their future sound.

Line-up:
- Alain Bergeron / keyboards, flute, saxophone
- Jerome Langlois / keyboards, guitar, clarinet
- Vincent Langlois / keyboards, percussion
- Denis Lapierre / guitar
- Yves Leonard / bass
- Paul Picard / percussion, bongos, xylophone
- Gilles Schetagne / drums, percussion
with
- Raoul Duguay / vocals, trombone

Track List:
01. Les Porches de Notre-Dame – 19:15
02. La Grosse Torche – 1:27
03. Les Aventures de Saxinette et Clarophone – 15:41
04. Chromo – 4:15

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