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Symphonic Prog • France


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Founded in Belfort, France, in 1969 - Still active as of 2018

Formed by brothers Christian DÉCAMPS (vocals) and Francis DÉCAMPS (keyboards) and later joined by guitarist Jean-Michel Brézovar, bassist Daniel Haas and Gérard Jelsh on drums, this French symphonic progressive rock band, similar to contemporaries such as Genesis and King Crimson, is undoubtedly France's most important prog band. Marrying prog rock influences with French folk and theatrical vocals à la Jacques Brel (Ange covered Ces Gens-là from Brel, and it turned out to be their first hit in 1970), Ange's music, but mostly their lyrics, are second to none. Thirty years later, after multiple lineup changes, charismatic and theatrical frontman Christian Descamps leads the new Ange generation alongside his son Tristan on keyboards, Hassan Hajdi on guitars, Thierry Sidhoun on bass, Caroline Crozat on vocals and Benoît Cazzulini on drums.

The classic line up (except for the drummer which changed often) recorded many cult classics, such as « Caricatures », « Le Cimetière des Arlequins », and a series of masterpieces like « Au-delà du Délire », « Émile Jacotey », « Par les Fils de Mandrin » and « Guet-Apens ». 10 years after « Guet-Apens », the same lineup would reunite and release two albums, « Sève qui Peut » in 1989 and « Les larmes du Dalaï-Lama » in 1992. While being modern, these albums nevertheless captured the main ingredients unique to Ange. Their latest albums, « Culinaire Lingus » and « ? » see the band as inspired and pertinent as ever, as if Descamps had found the secret of eternal youth.

This band is more than highly recommended, it is mandatory listening for fans of theatrical symphonic progressive rock, especially the period between « Caricatures » and « Guet-Apens ».

Eric Beaudin 2006

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ANGE top albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

3.78 | 159 ratings
Caricatures
1972
3.55 | 206 ratings
Le Cimetière Des Arlequins
1973
3.99 | 340 ratings
Au-delà du délire
1974
3.78 | 203 ratings
Emile Jacotey
1975
3.49 | 163 ratings
Par Les Fils De Mandrin
1976
4.03 | 168 ratings
Guet-Apens
1978
2.70 | 55 ratings
Vu D'Un Chien
1980
1.84 | 40 ratings
Moteur!
1981
1.87 | 40 ratings
À Propos De...
1982
2.65 | 48 ratings
La Gare De Troyes
1983
2.42 | 37 ratings
Fou !
1984
1.77 | 32 ratings
Egna
1986
2.55 | 28 ratings
Tout Feu Tout Flamme
1987
3.58 | 39 ratings
Sève Qui Peut
1989
2.74 | 51 ratings
Les Larmes Du Dalaï Lama
1992
2.52 | 28 ratings
La Voiture À Eau
1999
3.64 | 53 ratings
Culinaire Lingus
2001
3.09 | 27 ratings
By The Sons Of Mandrin
2003
3.00 | 26 ratings
?
2005
2.82 | 29 ratings
Souffleurs De Vers
2007
3.77 | 58 ratings
Le Bois Travaille, Même Le Dimanche
2009
3.53 | 57 ratings
Moyen-âge
2012
3.98 | 51 ratings
Emile Jacotey Résurrection
2014
3.68 | 53 ratings
Heureux !
2018

ANGE Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

4.03 | 50 ratings
Live 1977 - Tome VI
1977
2.55 | 15 ratings
Ange En Concert 1970-71
1978
4.58 | 10 ratings
Un P'tit Tour Et Puis S'En Vont
1995
3.49 | 18 ratings
Rideau !
1995
4.02 | 9 ratings
A ... Dieu
1996
2.43 | 7 ratings
Rêves Parties
2000
3.76 | 18 ratings
Tome 87
2002
3.41 | 15 ratings
En Concert - Par les Fils de Mandrin Millésimé 77
2003
4.54 | 12 ratings
Le Tour De La Question
2007
4.75 | 9 ratings
Zènith an II
2007
3.71 | 7 ratings
Souffleurs De Vers Tour
2009
4.50 | 8 ratings
Escale à Ch'tiland
2011
4.43 | 7 ratings
Emile Jacotey Résurrection Live
2015
0.00 | 0 ratings
Harfleur... Quelques Pétales
2017
4.50 | 4 ratings
Escale Heureuse
2019
4.43 | 7 ratings
Trianon 2020 - Les 50 ans
2020

ANGE Videos (DVD, Blu-ray, VHS etc)

4.50 | 2 ratings
Concert Volume Un - Sève Qui Peut
1990
4.50 | 2 ratings
En Concert 1990
1990
4.67 | 3 ratings
Zénith 1985
1993
4.75 | 4 ratings
Concerts 1976/1977
1994
4.60 | 5 ratings
Anthologie - Sève Qui Peut Tour
2003
3.22 | 4 ratings
70's / 80's - Deux Décennies De Concert
2003
4.05 | 3 ratings
Live Tour 2003-2004 - Par les fils de Mandrin
2006
5.00 | 1 ratings
Un Ange Passe ...
2007

ANGE Boxset & Compilations (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

3.30 | 8 ratings
Réimpression 72-76
1977
3.49 | 7 ratings
Vagabondages
1989
3.23 | 7 ratings
Mémo
1994
3.44 | 6 ratings
Master Serie Vol. 1
1998
3.21 | 5 ratings
Master Serie Vol. 2
1998
4.00 | 3 ratings
Master Serie Vol.1 & 2
1998
4.08 | 4 ratings
Ad Libitum
1999
3.90 | 2 ratings
Les Talents Du Siècle - Best Of
1999
4.00 | 4 ratings
Au-delà du délire / Émile Jacotey
2009
5.00 | 2 ratings
Les 50 plus belles chansons
2011

ANGE Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, EP/LP, MC, Digital Media Download)

2.00 | 1 ratings
Israel
1970
3.00 | 2 ratings
Tout Feu Tout Flamme
1971
3.00 | 1 ratings
Caricatures
1972
0.00 | 0 ratings
Le Soleil Est Trop Vert
1972
4.00 | 1 ratings
Ode A Emile
1975
0.00 | 0 ratings
La Suisse
1980
0.00 | 0 ratings
10 Ans Déjà
1981
0.00 | 0 ratings
Le Moribond
1982
0.00 | 0 ratings
Fou! (Promo Single)
1984
0.00 | 0 ratings
Moi Le Maudit
2009

ANGE Reviews


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 Moyen-âge by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 2012
3.53 | 57 ratings

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Moyen-âge
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by ProfGrognon

4 stars After the nice surprise of the album "Le Bois Travaille même le Dimanche", in which Ange had successfully explored new rhythmic and harmonic tracks, the band signs with "Moyen-Âge" a return to their roots, without managing to offer a coherent whole.

Indeed, the album starts with four tracks of uneven quality, and then continues with the eponymous "Moyen-Âge", eight very good tracks to which they should have added, in my opinion, "Opéra-Bouffe Ou La Quête Du Gras" which would have been in perfect harmony with the deliberately polemical tone of the album.

Indeed, this is a committed work in which the excesses of the digital world are denounced ("Les Clés du Harem"), as well as the inadequacies of political power in the face of growing social inequalities ("Un Goût de Pain perdu") or the confinement of the individual in an egotism encouraged by the new technologies ("A la Cour du Roi Nombril"; see which refers to the cover showing an individual curled up in a fetal position, sucked into the emptiness of his existence, clutching his mobile phone and wearing a disturbing-looking earpiece).

Nothing surprising for those who know Christian Décamps, who is used to punctuating his concerts with diatribes inspired by the woke left and who never loses an opportunity to vomit on religions, Christianity in particular, while Islam remains a taboo subject for him, either out of sympathy or out of caution... The album is also sprinkled with more or less open allusions to eminent public figures, among whom the French listener will easily identify the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, as well as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former president of the IMF.

In conclusion, an album that contains some very good tracks, but that misses the excellence for lack of a more accomplished overall vision. It's therefore difficult to decide between three or four stars, and it's finally the last track, "Abracadabra", a wink to their 1976 "Hymne à la Vie", which finally inclines me to give it the fourth star.

 Heureux ! by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 2018
3.68 | 53 ratings

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Heureux !
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

4 stars ANGE is the French group best known and most controversial of the last 50 years. He is the epitome of what can be done better and progressive rock, a waste in our country backward in some singular sensations must toe the line or else! (Though it's on the radio I heard the 1st time with ANGEL "These people" wonderful recovery of a great man of French music, but I digress!). In short, ANGEL released a super good album last year and it was a chronicle for our friends in Quebec, who advocate them speak French. Recall that the opportunity for registration was made before an audience of fans but if the studio. So let's go for it not to immersion 67 'disparate titles: "The other is more precious than time" tries to potential radio hit that gives live potential and provides the voice of the Decamps father. "What whisper stones" from a song "crooner" on JONASZ Michel, a beautiful ballad. Then comes one of the two bombs CD "Lucky Day for a poet in search of rhymes" and as close to 9 minutes, alternating solos pleasurable at the beginning and end of a great guitarist and HASSAN hovering times Between; one is in a master piece simply In any case, the best part for your servant! "Sense and enjoyments" small variation of words sometimes ribald, part of the ANGEL universe with words shaped musical note. "Nancy-jupiter swim" arrives with a repeat of "If I were the Messiah" and "Captain heart honey", no less! Inside, there are stones sounds Fabrice BONY, breathtaking solos Hassan, a typical prog breaks with atmosphere, atmospheres, moments of serenity! The titles "for right or wrong" and "happy! "Will suffer a bit with less intensity, especially based on the words of the father Decamps, while for" Gibberish "a bluesy air emerges. "Sing anything" disruptive in a first listening, allows for the lunch at which often happens on French radio, text to piss in a violin !! A stage title with the endless recovery keyboards almost ambient Tristan. In short, this 24th album is a marvel and be missed in 2018 had to be repaired at this site, it's done! In fact, if you do not know what to do, the group is currently touring throughout France.

 Sève Qui Peut by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 1989
3.58 | 39 ratings

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Sève Qui Peut
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

4 stars 1. Love/Hate with the narrative intro to announce the concept film; Quercus explains his role, his life over a grandiloquent rock sound; classic synths, Christian singing like his very theatrical son, an omen; fat synths 2. Living With The Heart and the synths that continue, Quercus like the schoolmaster of the famous film narrates each title; on classy pop with colorful lyrics from Christian 3. Les Plaisirs Faciles with an energetic riff, a metronomic keyboard, an overly typical text and a very marked marshmallow piece where the drums float on a 'Subway'-style soup; go to the autumn winter catalog on sale 4. Gold, Silver and Light divine or angelic intro choose for a beautiful progressive piece that would have deserved to be played in concert; arpeggio, period harpsichord, languorous voice, explosion and orgasmic rise in D minor for a fresco... hey can you hear me? The chorus is a bit dated with a not-so-innocuous wake-up call; solo, voice and the dreamlike crescendo starts again; the catchy drum-synth finale, the guitar solo which, on the verge of good hard rock, makes this piece enjoyable with the riff eyeing another angelic title, the panard

5. Breaking the Ice ...if the Phrygian is ignorant...the title soft like a nursery rhyme for the text to incorporate and forget the rest; well the world is crazy there is nothing more to do; the stereo choirs, the syrupy keyboard, the latency, the sticky guitar solo and the Louis Jouvet-style voice as tendentious as ever 6. Les Amours-Lumières with one of the most beautiful songs on the album to the point that I have to dry my tears; sweetness, emotion, spleen, memory, intrinsic beauty; the real, imaginary sax adds the romantic tear to this air which unfolds on its own, with a particular flavor of concentrated 80-90 prog latency 7. No!! for the cry of... revolt with a cheerful air and a somewhat simplistic text where the keyboard takes the lion's share, yes Jean-Pierre must have been happy; narrated text without image or almost, push me yes well even for a witch it's olé I wrote; the most this solo which tears Haasien and Hardien to finish the enjoyment 8. Great Feelings go Louis finally Quercus go ahead we listen to you; a hymn to revolt on a fresh, changing but vintage keyboard, the voice-orchestration association is slow to come together and only the guitar saves this piece a little. 9. Sève Qui Peu arrives, Quercus with its bio-nature message a little eco-friendly before its time; rumbling synth aided by the metronomic drums introducing the anthem, the march towards the Elysée, uh the Bastille; a grandiloquent text on a tune of the same lineage, a crescendo which gives a little air with this last guitar solo which reminds us that Ange had great guitarists, two here in addition; the finale returns to the sound of the start before a drum roll.

 Emile Jacotey by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 1975
3.78 | 203 ratings

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Emile Jacotey
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

4 stars Good after the delirium and before Mandrin, it was necessary to turn the page and release a concept under a pale air, an album which would speak of the soil, which would do honor to France, the real France, those of feasts, that of parties, that of legends!

1 Bêle, Bêle Petite Chèvre devil this title, for the air syncopated with the zik which attacks poor Christian and this marimba, it hits and it disturbs, a little in the madness, in short by all the saints it gercles even for the maidens , violent disorderly and out of tune, magical, bucolic I would say finally, ta ta ta tata; Come on Emile, we're listening to you, tell us about the goat 2 Sur La Trace Des Fées ... these are legends ... the arpeggio, the keyboard, the sound, the sound that orchestrates oh no, I'm wrong in the title .. in short, in white dresses we saw them well spent on the way on the point of the lake of Orient, all naked dressed with a torrent which passed on... the trace of the fairies; the slap for those who don't yet know Ange, yes the world is like that; the arpeggio returns to the left, Christian adjusts the balance by returning to the right, yes the drums delight passing on both sides, the organ wants to be more majestic before returning to the hammer... the words and sounds intertwine; Vintage album that has aged, for cold autumn evenings 3 The Dwarf From Stanislas arrives, even though I'm struggling, too present this dwarf, this voice, this air I don't know; good why, rhythmic yes, captivating yes, perhaps the voices that attacked me too much and whirled around; go hollow your head... yes surely a reflection of the padre who did not understand how I could listen to that; good the phrasing of if I were the messiah and it starts on a blue space, well of light, the dreamlike orchestral crescendo which swells; we are really in a particular universe 4 Day After Day ... nursery rhyme in one fell swoop on guitar arpeggio, organ by Francis which gives the la, not the sound; title that you listen to, that you drink, that you incorporate, text that you take in your head, day after day... and you are already waiting for Emile who will come back to talk to you around the village fire hydrant... the following the trace of the fairies for me 5 Ode To Emile with the sequence, so his prog! Excuse me Emile, my grandfather's first name, I'm listening, yes, we're resting, you're right, I'll start; the chimney, the plow are there, let's go on a bucolic air, an ode what; jean-Michel distills a fine angelic solo, sensitive as this last wine that we sing and we will wipe ourselves.. here is Emile it's for you. 6 Ego Et Deus yes Vidocq I can't help it, I'm thinking of them! 75... 48 years since he left... a straw, the age of recklessness, of life without major problems, without war, without all these constraints... the ship is his captain and can sail on a title flirting with a Higelin, with this lyrical flight that makes me laugh... the concept has been launched, we don't know it, but this blue flower title with colorful organ and guitar leads to 7 J'irai Dormir Plus Loin Que Ton Sommeil for the pompous title with its symbolism, its reverence and the nursery rhyme that puts Christian forward, yes he has, he had a box on each title of each album; we won't go into the details, you're clean with the message, but we're on the verge of ecstasy, Christian stop teasing us 8 Aurélia arrives, hello a drum hit, Jean-Michel in arpeggio and a title whose words I forget, a writer's slip that... Aurélien to the south of your breasts anyway! An angelic digression where Francis imprints the progression, the one that the French quidam didn't grasp, didn't understand... Aurélia yes it's more logical as a first name... to the South of your breasts 9 The wedding we feel coming, a bewitching organ that comes year after year; Guénolé, the new drummer, claps his drumstick... we're at mass; well the party is here with the last hooch and the veteran who will sing... come on guitar and a very bucolic, very enchanting, very Genesis-like hunting horn, you won't take it away from me; it wanders on a Frankreich country break on the other side of the Saône, where we take the time, where time goes away... and the music in all that, what do we do with it, but we dance sir you know the album so dance and enjoy before the 10 Le Marchand Des Planètes comes to defrock you... a little honey, a little of all that and I find myself here in 'Wind and wuthering' the last title, the one that makes you high at the very end of the said opus... jazzy break, angelic break easy to write, a wandering that closes this album really not as usual, we have the impression of having lived a moment with the group around the fire... oh yes that will be later; final spleen guitar.

Angel, of course, it's magic or angelic, it's up to you.

 Live 1977 - Tome VI by ANGE album cover Live, 1977
4.03 | 50 ratings

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Live 1977 - Tome VI
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

5 stars 1. Fils De Lumière for the intro, the audience, Jean Pierre's drum solo and the atmosphere created 2. The Long Nights of Isaac for the rest with the spleen guitar, the belching cries of Christian and this beautiful two-step climb 3. Ballade Pour Une Orgie for good evening, one that you take for yourself; memories for those who were there; for the presentation, for Francis' magic organ, for this nursery rhyme that you learned by heart without doing it on purpose; 4. Ode to Emile for the history of the marsh and the feeling of being in a non-religious mass, come on Emile was my grandfather too; short secular listening for the sake of it 5. Dignity because on the album the sound was really old-fashioned from the start, and here in concert with this break on the flute and the organ it is simply divine; the rest you know; ah if after a while we really get a whiff of TANGERINE DREAL then of 'nous sont du soleil' by YES... listen, listen also to the wonderful solo of Jean Michel before the grandiose finale, worthy of a movie soundtrack 6. Le Chien, La Poubelle Et La Rose just for the prog intro as desired, just for this unique moment, yes go look for this title on an album; grandiloquent, enjoyable, explosive, just that; after this title is just written in our collective unconscious and cannot be removed from it 7. On La Trace Des Fées for my favorite title, yes it's him especially since I know how to go to the tip of the island where I see them strolling in white dresses 8 to 10 Hymn To Life: Canticle, Procession and Hymn... the 3rd slap in the face for those who claim that Ange doesn't know how to make great songs... How can we miss a title this good, this magnificent; a delicious triptych which will rise to a crescendo and give its credentials to the group, thank you Francis, Daniel, Jean Pierre, Christian and Jean Michel. A solemn title often put at the end of a concert to say, well, we still have a few minutes left; I'm crazy, I see infinity, but how good is this finale, with this riff from another time and still current; and for another, another 11. These People, that's it, it's over, so we listen, we digest, religiously; the title that makes you scream no because you know it's true, that they have to go home.

An unrecountable live performance, quite simply indescribable.

 Tout Feu Tout Flamme by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 1987
2.55 | 28 ratings

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Tout Feu Tout Flamme
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

4 stars Angel is looking for himself, the album before well how would I put it, I'm having trouble, so on a small box we had to find his successor!, it's done and hop all fired all of a sudden

1 Tout Feu Tout Flamme with a well-used sound, as if old tracks had been found, a hymn title from 1971 brought up to date, at the time when Ange was beginning his journey; brought back here in 87 to drown safely in the world of Angel with Jean-Michel and Daniel like in the good old days, sign for a restart? 2 Tout Contre Tout After the slightly traumatic Egna getaway, we return to a more direct, square sound. will say that Ange is finished... but Ange is immortal, a thrill all the same with a crazy verve at times 3 Eggshell for the fake sax piece with an egg that is not overcooked, soft where the synth has the upper hand, cutesy on Serra before its time 4 C'est Pour De Rire for the tribute piece that we would all like to play at this funeral that we dread, yes we don't want to see his dad leave; in short, even an angel must talk about it, life is just for fun, we won't avoid wars; a dynamic 7' at the limit of slow where you see yourself moving your ass, where you see yourself jumping suddenly during the chorus, where you see yourself taking up this solo; 4' and the symphonic break from sympho majestic before resuming these basic musical lines, a beautiful gift for the beyond 5 Sur Les Grands Espaces Bleus with still a very greasy electro-synthetic sound, between soaring and meditation, between the moon and the sun, even delirious perhaps; in short the sound evolves, less percussive but with blue notes of escape, plaintive notes and a slow declination, some bucolic noises of birds a nod to delirium precisely and Serge's solo which tears as it should be done lose the wings to the angels; when the whistle announces the end it's not over with this finale leading there or up there, far, far from this crazy world 6 3 X 1 = We for a crazy rockabilly, like that reminds me of the clip of Queen with the locomotive... revise a little too; pop to try (again) to get on the radio, while the biggest group seemed to spend its time being ignored by the channels and other TV sets, a shame; a test interlude, but I'm not sure of the result... doesn't that make 3? 7 J'suis Pas D'ici with a marked groovy spirit, for a sanguine nursery rhyme on one of the cruellest stories that still haunt us; boogy and boosted text but we will not have the solution on this piece 8 Il Est Le Soleil (Ritual / A Taxi For The Eternal / Perpetual) looks like Apsaras, yes you know this hovering-emo-ethereal band with a bit of the Tangerine dream of the 80s, well we're good there then; well, he's him, everyone has grasped him; break towards the 4 ' and crystalline notes, the synth which wants to be marshmallow; of course it's moving again on an eternal highway, bam accident, come on, we go back into gear and we don't stop to take the taxi that goes to 7th heaven, that's how it is; the end all in re-sweetness

Well, the album between two waters that I like for different titles, consensual and with pearl.

 Fou ! by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 1984
2.42 | 37 ratings

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Fou !
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

5 stars ANGEL chronicle of fun!

1 Les Yeux D'un Fou latent intro, quickly done, it hits the pad, the nasty riff, hard ouh la la, in short a new ANGEL sound we have exceeded 80; yes metronomic air but we leave on a dithyrambic crescendo which will not stop until the end, in short take a good look at the eyes of the crowd and the solo of Francis of course, nice appetizer 2 (Je N'suis) There For Nobody goes on, metal pad, yes you have to get used to it, but it's in good taste the new sound has arrived; one of the rare French groups where I manage to listen to the lyrics without it horrifying me, yes a plus in this musical world with somewhat cutesy lyrics; in short, the jerking riff, the bluesy note that calms the game; rock but angelic rock 3 Piège À C?ur and the riff that comes back, we start on a punchy rock again, funny to talk about ANGE like rock, me who doesn't like to put labels... or else colorful ones to make the progs jump intransigent, in short; give me a kiss instead of cursing that you're leaving the group; .. make love to me in overdose rather, everything is said in fact and this melodic decrescendo which seems to last much longer 4 Harmony and a burst of madness that wins this album; bass air à la SERRA before its time, from the time of 'Subway', good one of the micro soli in cotton wool, the cottony stuff that protects you from returning to earth; the consensual title listened to alone but which takes on its full meaning with the next one, a real harmony? 5 (Hey!) Guinea pig yes chained, the title () which unfolds from source and starts to make you kick your feet while writing; what's happening to you, are you soaking up the sound? ; a disconcerting album with a change of direction but which paradoxically allowed the group to surf and continue to move forward, save the planet! da da da dadadaden, riff that takes you back, resets you, just to save the damn planet, yeah that's 37 years ago already 6 Fools Demand A King That's it the concept starts there; after the preambles, the madmen discover the deception and attack, yes the martial battery, yes the madmen ask for a king... well, we have it... of heart I don't know, of spades to hurt us I do think; what ANGEL had traveled to the future and knew for now, lay low! well I speak, I write, but you all expect how I am going to speak from the... heart; well ... that's how it is! the solo that makes you capsize, yes I asked for my girlfriend's hand on it, yes the slow was divine, yes you have your intimate, dreamlike memory, yes we listen together... 7 Guignols for the preamble, it comes from everywhere, on an endless Homeric ballad, a dose of masturbine that made me laugh and an engraved title that flows like a waltz... a waltz but what can we read? like c... here! 8 Guignols (La Chasse) let's go hunting in front of so much nonsense; the instrumental which risks making me say that ANGE was prog to release a title of this caliber; 9 Crazy hush... hush... ah ah ah ah ouh, the final ball is launched, the album draws to a close, Ben-Hur, Emmanuelle, the confetti, the madness begins; don't be careful a rise under acid to describe the current madness nan not possible, go a little pipe or other instrument; in short, he left the earth so it's not with us, phew, crazy finally you understood me because with the toothed hens and the igloo I'm also starting... to go crazy 10 Crever D'amour (Prelude) that's it, we're even going to die of it, on the piano, on the synth; enjoy I dare not write it Meta risks blocking me again... ready to scratch it if that happens; hot introductory title with a belching solo, calm down Hassan we're not at the end... yes it's you that I saw in the clip otherwise we agree that it was Serge at the handle at this time there! 11 Dying of love continues... it's prog... pof, pof, pog, pog... what do I hear? who speaks, finally who? well let's talk about music because hah, hahhh, phew it's not obvious in fact, I'm holding my breath, what is this album where I listen more to the lyrics than the music, well ... the cries more than the rest ; a...crescendo, okay? a crescendo with a scroll of notes, an intense vibration of notes I said for a very exhilarated finale, it was ANGE and it was for fun.

 Vu D'Un Chien by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 1980
2.70 | 55 ratings

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Vu D'Un Chien
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

4 stars 3 years to wonder if it was going to continue, 3 years to know if the band was going to give us something, 3 years! 1Les Temps Modernes for this nod to the labors of Hercules, to the mad world in which Charlot was immersed in his time, a bold, incisive, modern sound at the start of a new decade; a guitarist with Robert who leaves on solos and a hard riff, the Ange before is gone, long live Ange; Didier on bass reinforces the fat sound and these modern times made me capsize, me who only sees prog with a little heavy so as not to fall asleep during concerts with vintage 2 Les Lorgnons all this for a story of badly fitted glasses; a text you remember, you have the right to dream, to retie your shoes, the slap I still remember; Francis is softer, it's good like that Robert puts himself more in evidence; good in the courtyard of the school, by the way, did you find them? A solo from behind the fagots stamped Ange with the spleen hanging on, Jean-Pierre always taps delicately and by the way, here is a weird slip... 3 Leave Me Alone! for those who are not happy... Ange tries to extricate itself from words and evils like many bands and finally releases an album, then; a little boogie with this soft keyboard line; here I offer you a whiskey that too I loved when I started to taste, the outro that you don't know if it's the end or the beginning of the next title, that too is prog and... Give me a break 4 I Work Without Net for the slap; the slap not the baffle we agree, in addition I would have to dust them off, in short prog metal with a riff à la Scorpions immense, brilliant, bombastic... shut up I drank too much... all is said , I had told him to taste he wouldn't be there slipping on the rope, without bad alcohol; the title that I put back tirelessly to incorporate myself somehow, always a word that recalls a time of Angel... and the other idiot there who shines his spotlight while I'm alone on the rope to type words just for fun; well I haven't lost I'm listening to this album again in stereo and I'm thinking about Scorpions again, I like it...The chorus that doesn't stop, a bit winded there... and then the cathedral organ and then the guitar enjoyable, and then this beat, and then this bass, another riff, this rise... the prog blood flows of course inside and there you forget everything, you close your eyes and you dream... until the final synth which keeps you awake 5 Switzerland ... side B missed, yet I like it I even have a Swiss friend; too monolithic not intoxicating enough I listen to it in search of this bizarre solo, Francis in a dance hall who just tries his hand at it and the chorus sailing endlessly; the sax that comforts me in this mouth-hole title, oh a shame to write it, no I live it like that, I say it 6 Person Au Bout Du Fil between the boogie, the last Asia and the fat sound of the album; a new genre that you had to dare not to fall like the other dinos; the progueux will still criticize, the metalheads who pass there will recognize in Robert a good frontman; yes I've always liked the guitar solos that gave me the temperature of the album, in short you don't say anything you don't listen anymore... but our lives are at stake, go answer, answer, answer no one? 7 Pour Un Rien for the Genesis nursery rhyme, just to tackle those who say that Ange didn't do it... but there's no harm, this piece is divine, short that I wish it lasted , short that I have the words that come out, especially when it comes to going through his body... and before the tarantulas; the synth solo on a 'Ripples' for those who dare to compare for a few moments, beauty in bars, in K7, intimate, it only takes a little to be happy 8 Vu D'un Chien déboule, good 6 mn we hope; the synth pads and the guitar à la Crichton from Saga, yes I like to think of another band while listening to these notes; well, we're talking about a wagging tail, wow, it's hot... not dirtying the seats, wow, not licking the paint on his mistress, wow, it's really hot... a prog title like you imagine with latent phase, rise, plateau phase and musical orgasm; it changes you have to adapt and not stay in the 70s so there I am satisfied, there is to the marrow bone to be happy and to wag this damn tail... that's it the explosion is there , nervous, heavy with applause, everything is there and biting the postman I like it, burglars eat them it would be better... stunning at first listen.
 Guet-Apens by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 1978
4.03 | 168 ratings

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Guet-Apens
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

5 stars 1 À Colin-Maillard Genesis intro, yes, gentle, just before the surge of Jean-Pierre's drums and Francis' keyboard; Claude's guitar, a good guitarist with a spleen-slide guitar... that I really liked; the arpeggio from behind refocuses, the voice I listen to it yes incredible I manage to listen to the texts.. MANSET, LAZULI and ANGE are my musketeers; in short we forget this ballad out of time with all that was needed at the time to leave; riff, rhythm, percussion, a suave solo that squirts and warms up; ANGE quite simply with a more rock sound that will arrive well at the end of the 70s without losing too much of the pen, go for a little more spellbinding keyboard, that was also your tata! 2 In Les Poches Du Berger the dog barks, the caravan... not the guitar arpeggio instead; the dreamlike keyboard, the roaring guitar note and boom, we're in the mountain pasture; it goes up, the battery too round for me, but that also changed; when the voice blends with the instruments to make you frolic far from the neighborhood, where life is good, where the title wants to be bucolic crooked and goes on the nursery rhyme like a leaf of wind after a downpour, in short 3 A Hole In The Box classic intro with doorbell and rififi; the riff wants to be austere from the start, the city has put on its coat, in short the riff we said; ANGE raises the sound and gives a title much more rock than yesteryear; the sound evolves, it's going to disturb some, but who said that everyone should be happy, the bell gets excited, it's the main thing and the concerto with the Morgan no longer knows where to go; the riff I was saying and the instrumental digression for a time; Christian returns to the charge with the air of departure again which is essential... Gabriel's flute, ah damn Christian is talking now, we are in the classroom, I have to pee, ah a hole in the box to be able to evacuate me... that would be good 4 Comma that I assimilate to Horizons, yes this album is the most Genesis in my opinion, for the keyboards, for the atmosphere, the wacky nursery rhymes, for all that and still something else, in short I put a comma on it that either Cleopatra or Agrippina,,,,,, 5 Wake up good the killer intro, it's aged... but the text is still there; well, of course, I make a friend listen... and 3 minutes later she leaves... big disgusting oh yes I see your game, you wanted me...? Good one stupid thing... less in my universe, she didn't understand anything, that she stays asleep, far from my musical sphere; an anthem, the Eternal Anthem that every fan knows the story by heart; all the same, it was hot all the same, what distress, what love he had for her! The sound is in place, it looks like it anyway... and if she had been right, no I can't admit it to myself la la la, that's also why I manage to glue myself to the words of ANGEL 6 Captain C?ur De Miel for one of the major ANGEL titles or the near-ultimate progressive title; well, the bottle is just empty Clément rum, since in concert you shouldn't encourage...and yet I offered him a bottle and I'm still waiting to sip it with him; and yet I even offered him a WELL WHITE empty bottle TO use in concert; nay never seen again; in short, we're here at Hassan's solo... live, yes I'm on a concert while I'm typing There!! in CHATRER LES ETOILES, in short it was Claude who was to provide one of the most beautiful solos of their discography, yes I think so; we're halfway there and Christian's really gone...[%*!#] off; the prog moment arrives, sublime, warm, gripping, majestic, dantesque, latent and epychondriac, not hypochondriac... it feels good so I add it; the progressive variation after Hymne à la vie, the moment that everyone has in mind... it will take off again with the wind; what's going on in my head, the chrono that stops, the time, the blood, the time, I have the heart... but now I'm talking to him; Jean-Pierre launches the cover, which can hold while reading... nobody is the symphony of time, the galaxies pass, the well-imagined symphony, the ultimate musical ode that you want to listen to at the end of the concert; so yes I'm not a fan of ANGEL but there are times when I like to listen to them especially when Hassan gives you the finger of Satan right there at you, that too is daunting!

Good, a slightly subjective album revisited for the pleasure of reshaping time in fact.

 Par Les Fils De Mandrin by ANGE album cover Studio Album, 1976
3.49 | 163 ratings

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Par Les Fils De Mandrin
Ange Symphonic Prog

Review by alainPP

4 stars The last sound of ANGE 1st version before the explosion of prog and long songs; an album on the edge to gather before a new beginning? An album to revisit what bathed our childhood, our musical space!

1By Les Fils De Mandrin the broken twigs underfoot, the hello, we are at the dawn of a great morning! Jean-Michel is there with a riff that could pass in a hard piece, Christian reveals his aggressiveness, his delicacy, the solo with hacks from Francis and it's off to the declination, Jean-Pierre hits well; return as if nothing had happened to the verse ... sworn by the sons of Mandrin, hello, hello 2 Au Café Du Colibri continues with a cinematic country bar, yes we didn't explain it like that... before; ANGE made French GENESIS, here at the café we are in the medieval bucolic atmosphere, the one that makes you regress wisely; watch out for your queen though; Francis invites us to a bourrée, you mustn't be too drunk, in short, a little break, we don't roast anymore, an air of s I was the messiah to talk to you, you, yes you who reads here; we revisit but it is fashionable to be a tad interactive, plitschh! 3 So S'en Ira La Pluie that's it, we're entering the album, an incisive organ that plunges into the particular universe of the group, Christian with his hat, his nose wants to be a man of the theater, see the clip which has not changed; distressing title yes, these creaks that existed on the LP quickly, which we are looking for for the vintage side now, the shivering harmonica as in the future 'Delicatessen', a premonitory, latent title where we are only waiting for one thing the end of the rain for the break... pick up this trailer, a long journey begins for you... that's it, we're off with the guitar and Jean-Michel hiding to perform it like a certain Steve, any chance? 4 Autour Du Feu yes let's come back for a little musical rest; an Andalusian arpeggio and a gentle nursery rhyme; an intimate title at the start which sends me back to Peter GABRIEL's last concert which begins around a... fire; a finale where the Gypsies invite themselves to the party, it makes me yawn 5 Acrobats... fortunately Francis gets us out of this lethargy with a sound from home; ah the flute arrives at the corner of a path, hold a rabbit coming out of a jacket, hold a troubadour which crosses my path, hold my mandibles which cross a dragonfly, what is happening? a harpsichord and I find myself in fishnet stockings; I 'don't like ANGE' but I can only remain hypnotized by these words from another century where everyone rubbed shoulders without a second thought; who am i a magician? Imp of course yes with this saucy side which suits me well, in short I am bewitched to the right, to the left, to the right, to... but what is Gargantua doing? 6 Des Yeux Couleur D'enfants second side and a different sound, nasty rock, effective, ah a touch of the keyboard just what it takes to dive back into the world of ANGE; intro of more than a minute before the intimate text of Christian who will revisit the world with the eyes... of someone else, a drum roll remember this roll for the end; a cymbal, a plaintive organ, latency, prog what... the temple of a thousand lights is there right next to the guitar solo that attacks you, yes you didn't see it coming, sometimes put in the end , sometimes... for me it's like this, in short 7 Atlantis "The Giants Of The 3rd Moon" left without you realizing it, voice too far away, synth à la Serra before its time, ah maybe on JARRE... well meanwhile the giants speak to us and you have to listen.. yes I've always had trouble with this piece... that's how it is, I'm patiently waiting for the anthem, ah the great silence and a solo taken from the verse of the beef, very fat , in feedback, something that turns, that comes and goes, that passes behind me, that comes back, that's it, we're there 8 Hymn To Life: Song / Procession / Hymn or the unstoppable triptych, one of the moments, the moment of the album; dry guitars, intoxicating text, bucolic with this dew after .. the night; I adored ANGE for this kind of pieces with an inevitable crescendo, for the Mellotron well brought, for this programmed latency, for the spleen western side with the harmonica, with, with but you know it better than me. The mercenaries wear out their veils, a spider... with its web; oh you there it's easy to say that I take back snippets of speech; it calms down... for the procession, trumpets, we don't breathe... we wait, the flute brings us there perky, cheeky but surely; from light to light, flowers of paradise, it burns my eyes and the keys of the keyboards which go up, hold a voice of bilboquet there on the left and it continues to go up, the guitar gets started, well I'm going to graze, one more bilboquet, wink at you Bill; crazy I don't know but from another life why not? din ding ding the anthem comes to an end, Jean-Michel tears himself away, the adrenaline rush is frenetic, insolent given the times; majestic piece it's easy but I write it anyway...

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