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Abus Dangereux

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2.12 | 6 ratings | 2 reviews | 0% 5 stars

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Live, released in 1985

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Tout bêtement
2. Balade à cinq
3. Puzzle
4. Cinq ans après
5. Récréation

Line-up / Musicians

- Pierrejean Gaucher / guitars
- Bobby Rangell / saxes, flutes, piccolo
- Jacques Marugg / vibes
- Philippe Talet / bass
- François Verly / drums, percussion, marimba

Releases information

Recorded at the New Morning (Paris) in march, 1985

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ABUS DANGEREUX Live ratings distribution


2.12
(6 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(0%)
0%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(33%)
33%
Good, but non-essential (0%)
0%
Collectors/fans only (67%)
67%
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)
0%

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Review by Sean Trane
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Folk
2 stars 2.5 stars really!!!

In 85, Abus Dangereux released a Live album without Devos' marimba, but he's replaced by vibraphonist Marugg and bassist Talet is also a newcomer. Unfortunately, the live setting is not really helping the band sound more energetic than in the studio. Same old song and dance, my friend!! Even if we get a small dissonant surprise with Puzzle, this hardly enough to wake you from the general boredom that pervades through the album. If I must give one track, I'll take Cinq Ans Après (five years after), but even then AD does not manage to recapture its original spirit. Nothing worth writing home to, this album is really for fans who dig deep into apathic pure fusion.

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2 stars The final Abus Dangereux album before the Dangereux extention was dropped and Abus continued on it's own on the next three albums. According to Pierrejean Gaucher in the interview we did sometime ago, this is an album with new material recorded in a live environment. Just like Soft Machine did ... (read more)

Report this review (#561209) | Posted by toroddfuglesteg | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | Review Permanlink

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