Mélusine is a French folk group founded in 1972 by Jean-François Dutertre (vocals, spruce Vosges …), Jean-Loup Baly (vocals, accordion …) and Yvon Guilcher (vocals, bagpipes …) , joined later by Jacques Mayoud (vocals, violin, rebec …), former member of La Bamboche….
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
Gabriel Yacoub began his musical career as a guitarist and backing vocalist for Alan Stivell before forming his own band Malicorne.
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
There is something about the music on Malicorne's album `Le Bestiaire' (roughly translated to `The Animals') that transports me to another space and time.
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
Malicorne is my favourite folk collective and Almanach is their best album. It is a concept album from 1976 where each of the 12 songs represents a month of the year. Hence 'Almanach' which means calendar in English. Track 13 was not on the original album.
A French cross between GRYPHON and STEELEYE SPAN. The songs are mostly old French traditional songs. The head of Malicorne is singer-guitarist-composer Gabriel Yacoub.
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
No illusion here…don't miss this beauty
If you've even been confused about the two line-ups of Renaissance and how the story played out, you need to look no further than our band page here which has a forum thread called "A Renaissance confusion" written by Joolz which spells out this complete history in full detail.
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
Formed in 1970, it was only in 1974 that French band Mona Lisa could perpetrate their debut album and start to bring their contribution to their country's progressive rock arena and deliver one of the most accomplished expressions of theater rock.
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music.
One of my top ten. This is simply the perfection made human. Listen to "Depuis L' Automne "or the last "fifth season" for uncontrollable tears of joy, shivers down the spine, and goose bumps all over..
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
This is the first place to start with their music, absolutely containing the very best version of "The Snow Goose"….
Francky Vincent as a percussionist, in 1975, he joined a small, suburban group called Tabou No. 2,…