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Harmonium En Tournée
''Harmonium En Tournée'' is a live album by Harmonium, consisting of a live performance of the studio album ''L'Heptade'', recorded live in Vancouver, 1977. It was released in 1980 by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada's (SRC) music distribution arm, Les Disques SRC, and CBS Disques CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen .... After selling tens of thousands of copies, unauthorised by the band, CBS stopped distribution. After 20 years of being copied exclusively illegally by cassette, a foreign unauthorised CD version started being sold, which prompted the distribution of a legal CD version in 2002. Track listing Disc One #Introduction (1:30) #Comme un fou (7:08) #Chanson noire ##Le bien, Le mal (4:22) ##Pour une blanche cérémonie (4:10) #L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmonium (band)
Harmonium was a Quebec progressive rock band formed in 1972 in Montreal. History Lead vocalist and guitarist Serge Fiori met Michel Normandeau (vocals and guitar) in a theatre music meeting in November 1972. Later on, in 1973, they met bassist Louis Valois and formed Harmonium. In November 1973, the group performed their first air play on CHOM-FM. They played 3 tracks: ''Pour un instant'', ''Un musicien parmi tant d'autres'', and ''Un refrain parmi tant d'autres''. The first 2 songs were later recorded professionally to be put on their self-titled debut album. The last song was a sequel to ''Un musicien parmi tant d'autres'', but never made the album cut, staying unreleased. A single was also released at the time with the hit ''Pour un instant'' on side A and ''100,000 Raisons'' on side B, the latter only included on the CD version of the album nearly 20 years later. This album was a huge success and a sold out tour was staged all over Quebec and in French Canada. Their second al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its " progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening rather than dancing. Progressive rock is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism. Due to its historical reception, the scope of progressiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
