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SAPIENS CHAPITRE 3/3: ACTUM

Jean-Pierre Louveton

 

Crossover Prog

3.91 | 35 ratings

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alainPP
4 stars JPL is therefore releasing its latest opus-baby on homo sapiens, an album supposed to talk about musical progression in a territory that is unfortunately dying; let's go for the note.

'Paradis Perdu' for a bluesy rock with a nice progressive intro, that's enough. 'Mon Cercueil' with a more marked bluesy side, accompanying the voice which is still too captivating for me; the ai is in line with the 70's just by the vintage keyboard, yes I am thinking here of ANGE; the variation with choirs is intended to be shimmering, it starts by mixing vintage, blues and French rock, a layer of jazzy synths comes to stir up trouble. 'Alias (La machine²)' more nervous, choppy, based on a text that must be assimilated to avoid being taken by the narration. 'Dance Now' percussions ahead, title which does not look like much, amalgamation of various used sounds, then boom the folklo-medieval break which flows all by itself, guitar, biniou and clarinet for a seductive buff. 'Memento Mori' for the master piece, you know the thing you're telling yourself there, it's going to be good! and it's very GOOD! Walking on a bald mountain in the distance, and not towards the unknown, time flees since this linked subtitle surfs on the orchestral quality of the previous one; The death of the king with the introduction of the text and always this plus/minus, that of sitting down to listen and the voice and the guitar which takes over a very singular bluesy variation, letting the spirit wander, a sign of good quality; 'Paria' arrives suddenly... clean cut for a disconcerting jazzy space, but how good is it. In fact it's prog because it lasts a long time, it's varied, fresh, changing, evolving and... difficult to transcribe, so only one solution, grab this album and make up your mind, but do it. 'Acta fabula est' yes it's not over, this last title further consolidates the atmosphere of this trilogy: admirable, not that I'm fanatical without thinking, but to confirm that there is great art, rock art below; the festive riff, Balkans or throne fair is there to energize this album.

JPL scored a good point with this 3rd album of... its trilogy; the first was very good, the second the same as I expected more; this one where I didn't expect anything more so as not to have too much expectation, seduced me with the finds, the creations of musical style and the sound inventiveness; this album is really a great moment. Only problem the first titles not intense enough avoiding me to put 5 stars.

alainPP | 4/5 |

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