Dragon - Kalahen - Plus 1977, Belgium Страна: Belgium Жанр: HardProgressive Год выпуска: 1977 Формат: APE (image + .cue) Трэклист:
Children Are Playing Game
Ballad
America
Les Hommes Bleus
Red Light
Kalahen
[CD adds:
Psychedelic Brotherman Blues Ashes
Two Drops of Rain
Burning Light
Fanny (part 1-4)
J.V.'s Private Works] Line-up/Musicians - Bernard Callaert / rhythm & bass guitars, backing vocals
- Christian Duponcheel / keyboards, Mellotron, claviolin, flute, sax
- Georges Venaise / drums, vibes, flute
- Jean Venaise / guitars, string machine, lead vocals Доп. информация: Dragon (Belgian version)'s first album is one of those 'out of time' sort of records, where you'd swear it was from a different age, which, oddly enough, it has in common with their New Zealand namesakes. Dragon could quite easily pass for one of those 1970/71 LPs from the likes of Cressida or Spring, with no immediately apparent sign that the band are Belgian. Organ-heavy, with that post-'60s 'jamming' feel about it, the material is actually very good, despite its dated feel. It isn't the most Mellotron-heavy album ever, but Gone In The Wind (OK, I take the Belgian comment back) has some excellent string parts from Christian Duponcheel, and there's a bit of choir on Crystal Ball, but the other two tracks I've noted aren't even definite; a few notes of a string sound that may or may not actually be 'Tron. Their second album, Kalahen, appears to be no more than a bunch of demos stuck together, although this was in 1977, when such things were almost unheard of (it was issued on CD in 1992 as Kalahen Plus, adding another six tracks). Stylistically, it doesn't seem that the band had moved on much from their debut, with the extra added non-benefit of fairly poor sound quality, including extraneous noise that wouldn't have made the final version. To be honest, the album's a bit of a mess; several tracks are no better than raw jams, and of the original six, the title track's the only one that makes the grade at all, and then only because it's so odd. It's also the only one to feature any 'Tron, although two other tracks have what sounds like string synth. A side-long piece, Kalahen itself opens with 'Tron pipe organ, before great slabs of choir are dropped onto it from a great height; undoubtedly the album's Mellotronic highlight and probably its musical one too, despite its incoherence. There's more choirs on the first bonus track, Psychedelic Brotherman, but that would appear to be it. In fact, apart from that track, the rest of the bonus material actually lowers the quality of the overall release, especially J.V.'s Private Works (guitarist Jean Vanaise), which is a messy collage of musical snippets, none of which were really worth saving, to be honest. So; Dragon's a good album in a very early '70s style, with a smattering of 'Tron.
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