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'Vers Demain' consists of short pieces that are full of IT: full of theatricality, atmosphere, breathtaking melodies,…, full of Mona Lisa! If someone isn't already familiar to this band and thinks that for example Genesis or Ange are great ones, then go for Mona Lisa! It's a pearl of theatrical prog!…

Following the success of "Ni Vent… Ni Nouvelle", Maneige records another studio album featuring a similar style of fusion, 1978's "Libre service - Self-service". What results is a logical follow-up to the previous release’s amalgamation of fusion, funk and progressive that characterizes this era in the band's history. This CD reissue contains the 10 original tracks which have been recently remastered, plus bonus live material culled from this same era (featured on the 1979 album “Composite”), as well as a 12-page booklet full of photos.

Third album chronologically for EFL, with yet another wind player change, this time Bernard Mathieu. This is probably EFL at its rawest and barest, but we are in 79 and France is a high ground for rawness of punk as "n'importe quoi" (anything goes) but the group doesn't even use their show to promote or play older material, as in this Live collection, with only Fleuve & Manteau (actually quite close to the studio version with a superb sax hovering like Trane) belonging to one of their previous album, and Christine will be reworked in a future album…

Fourth album from their catalogue released in 1978 named Libre Service - Self-Service is almost same in manner of composing with previous one, aswell shorter pieces but full of inventive passages. Overall polished sound, some untraditional instruments here like xylophone, marimba combined with the rest gives a very solid album. Flute again is important as guitar and keyboards, again an instrumental album. Maybe in places is little more accesible then previous album and maybe lighter in aproach but never the less a great album by Maneige that keeps the flag high in those dark years of prog late '70s.

Shuky & Aviva mainly recorded records in French. Between 1972 and 1978 appeared over 15 singles, which Levi had partly written himself. From her biggest hit Signorina concertina in 1972 a total of around two million copies have been sold. This song they presented in a German version in 1973 also in the ZDF hit parade.

C’est sous le nom de son album initial que l’on trouve la compilation des œuvres quasi complètes de la « Grande sauterelle », telle qu’elle est parue au sein du coffret Actrices, réunissant en sept CD des albums ou compilations de Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Adjani, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg et, donc, Mireille Darc.