Markusfeld - Le Son Tombé du Ciel CD
SKU
PP 145
This 1971 release is the second album by guitarist Alain Markusfeld, who released several much better known and much more widely available albums on Egg in the later 70s.
Featuring Joel Dugrenot : bass (Zao), Genza Fenzi : drums (Dynastie Crisis), Laurent Thibaut : electric piano (Magma) and Dominique Blanc-Francard : synths.
Largely instrumental, this has a unique, dusky flavor and is actually surprisingly different from his Egg releases, while remaining equally excellent.
“The almost 10mn instrumental eponym piece is a little spacerock gem. It begins very quietly with discrete and ethereal keyboards, when suddenly Markusfeld's guitar bursts like thunder. And then the piece slowly builds up very progressively in the way of Agitation free "2nd", with a psychedelic eastern-flavoured guitar sound, leading fascinating developments, helped by rhythmic accelerations. The piece ends on a repetitive melodic pattern, typical of Markusfeld's style.
The add of moog and VCS3 synthe on "La durée n'est pas le temps" adds some richness to the sound. The singing is more tranquil and less declamatory, theatrical than on the first album. "Theleme" is a luminous pastoral folk piece while "Eve" is a floating, ethereal piece with Wyatt-like singing while the second half is very experimental.” - Progarchives
- LabelPaisley Press
- UPC4048876661457