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Poll Question: Which of these bands is your favorite?
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Yup, the two Dionne-Brégent albums are superbClap

I would also point to Madore's Komuso à 6 Cordes as stupendousShockedStarStarStarStar

Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Quebec has more Prog bands then the rest of Canada combined.
This isn't very hard to achieve: 
Outside Ontario (often under-estimated in the 69/74 era, before the rise of Rush/Triumph/FM and Webster), most other provinces don't have prog bands (at least when it come to 70/80's):
- BC had The Collectors and its continuity in early Chilliwack and the amazing one-shot of Ptarmigan, but that's it.
- The Prairies provinces had nothing (if you except for slightly prog moments in Guess Who and BTO)
- The Maritimes provinces had April Wine, which was not prog (outside their Schizoid cover)

Basically, Quebec & Ontario concentrated 98% of Canadian prog in the 60/70/80's. 

Albeit, I'm much less aware of the origins of modern (post-90's) Canadian prog bands, though 
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From the list Harmonium over Sloche and Opus 5. Quebec has more Prog bands then the rest of Canada combined.
Other favs:
Pangee
Dionne-Bregent
Agharta
The Box
Indiscipline
Karcius
Excubus
Spaced Out
l'Orchestra Sympathique
And Miriodor might be at the top of all of these.


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^ I think one thing is for sure. Quebec has been outstanding in delivering high quality music to the world whether it be exceptional prog bands like Maneige, Sloche or Harmonium in the 70s or Voivoid in the 80s or Gorguts and Godspeed You! Black Emperor in the 90s and beyond. What a special place on the planet that continues to surprise! We love you Quebec!!!

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Love reading your dialogue Bertolini and SPup (i.e. Bertrand and Mike)!

I agree about the amazingly outstanding quality of sound, composition, and musicianship coming from all of these bands.

Sorry to have missed Etcetera! I've actually never hear of them much less heard their music, so I have much to look forward to!



P.S. I'm sorry Octobre is getting no love. I love their stuff! And they were the first to arrive on the prog wagon (as far as I can discover).



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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

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J'écoute les débuts de Conventum en ce moment. Je l'aime! Tres unique.



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^ Non! Ne vous inquiétez pas. Je voulais seulement dire que la musique est subjective et que nous l'aimons tous pour des raisons personnelles. Nous sommes tous d'accord sur certaines musiques et puis certaines nous conviennent personnellement et nous ne pouvons pas expliquer exactement pourquoi ! La vie est un mystère. Acceptons toutes les différences. Pas besoin de compétition ou de mépris pour voir les choses différemment :)

J'écoute les débuts de Conventum en ce moment. Je l'aime! Tres unique.

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ that's ridiculous. Competition between music is lame. Everyone enjoys different music. So what! I do love Gorguts and Voivod and many other weird bands metal or not. Not everyone does. All good!

Not sure my "personnal translator" put it right this time. Are you angry of what i said? Stunned. I'm an old sixtygoers just unable to support a certain amount of decibels and just leave others at that without expressing any critical point of view about anyone's taste. Where's any notion of competition there? Apart, naturally, of the whole notion of a poll of preference to which you evidently suscribded! This was a nice chat...
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^ that's ridiculous. Competition between music is lame. Everyone enjoys different music. So what! I do love Gorguts and Voivod and many other weird bands metal or not. Not everyone does. All good!

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Sounds right! pretty good "googling" as well as i've been abused! Can't follow you on these metal quebecois i know does exist, not my cup of tea. But it's been a funny thing to watch those "t shirts rivalry " all these decades long between quebecois prog and metal afficionados. Not too much real fight to be fair....
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Harmonium is the only one I know. Embarrassed



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Originally posted by bertolino bertolino wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ Merci! J'ai choisi Sloche pour la même raison. Tout le monde connaît Harmonium et Maneige. Sloche était assez unique et à mes oreilles leurs deux albums étaient parfaits !

Thanks! I chose Sloche for the same reason. Everyone knows Harmonium and Maneige. Sloche was quite unique and to my ears their two albums were perfect!

Former quebecois? (Living in CA and writing fluently in french??!)

 Can't agree more about "the perfection" side of things. Each time i listen to any, i'm stunned by the quality of the recording. While the organic sound (analog keyboards arsenal of Yacola is without egal) is typically 70's, the sound hasn't age a bit. This guy could be seen  earning a living, directing a small band in local tv shows in my hometown , Quebec city, while Pollen kbst became musical director of Celine Dion!

From a "Quebecois errant" living in Paris for 24 years


Not French or Canadian. Studied multiple languages. Russian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and dozens of others to a limited extent. Don't speak French fluently. Used Google translate to get it right but have enough knowledge in French to be able to detect if it's accurate. Basically i can read it extremely well but do not speak it very well at all.

Quebec remains quite unique whether you're talking about classic prog bands or more modern avant-metal bands like Voivod or Gorguts.

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I went for Maneige, for they have 6 fantastic great historical album and a slightly weaker 80's album, plus four great archival albums and two great pre-Maneige as Lasting Weep.


Outside Offenbach, nobody comes close to that amount, and TBH , the band only produced only 4 good (but not great) albums



Other faves are Sloche, Harmonium, Conventum, Opus 5, etc...


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Happy to have a "meet again" on this occasion Mr Trane. Our parallel trajectories had to have both of us on this post. The natural order of things still follow his path. Have a nice continuation & see you on one of those similar occasions. Cdlt
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ Merci! J'ai choisi Sloche pour la même raison. Tout le monde connaît Harmonium et Maneige. Sloche était assez unique et à mes oreilles leurs deux albums étaient parfaits !

Thanks! I chose Sloche for the same reason. Everyone knows Harmonium and Maneige. Sloche was quite unique and to my ears their two albums were perfect!

Former quebecois? (Living in CA and writing fluently in french??!)

 Can't agree more about "the perfection" side of things. Each time i listen to any, i'm stunned by the quality of the recording. While the organic sound (analog keyboards arsenal of Yacola is without egal) is typically 70's, the sound hasn't age a bit. This guy could be seen  earning a living, directing a small band in local tv shows in my hometown , Quebec city, while Pollen kbst became musical director of Celine Dion!

From a "Quebecois errant" living in Paris for 24 years
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I went for Maneige, for they have 6 fantastic great historical album and a slightly weaker 80's album, plus four great archival albums and two great pre-Maneige as Lasting Weep.


Outside Offenbach, nobody comes close to that amount, and TBH , the band only produced only 4 good (but not great) albums



Other faves are Sloche, Harmonium, Conventum, Opus 5, etc...


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I'd have to pick Harmonium but Sloche is really close, great stuff there. Maniege 3rd.
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^ Merci! J'ai choisi Sloche pour la même raison. Tout le monde connaît Harmonium et Maneige. Sloche était assez unique et à mes oreilles leurs deux albums étaient parfaits !

Thanks! I chose Sloche for the same reason. Everyone knows Harmonium and Maneige. Sloche was quite unique and to my ears their two albums were perfect!

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As a quebecois, this one i was obliged... But choice has me "teared apart". So ,comment becomes necessary. Harmonium would be the obvious choice (as the picture of my alias is the front cover of the recent Fiori solo album)  as overall importance, both on this site and in my life. But Maneige, to all things fusion, chamber prog, Gong and Gentle Giant influences and overall evolution within a discographic career, is without pair. Conventum almost gave birth to the whole Chamber/RIO movement with Henry Cow (Lussier and Frith were working together as soon as the very beginning of the eighties) and their two albums are as close to perfection for all related chamber acoustic folk prog. Finally my choice went to Sloche for a single reason. Which band i'd like any of P.A. readers would discover if they didn't know any of these, thinking it could be the find of their listener's life? There you have it. Main absent here would be Etcetera and their lone album.
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Harmonium gets the nod.
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