French prog with a Pink Floydish sound and very intense vocals/poetry from Catherine Ribeiro (very Grace Slick or maybe Patti Smith) ... Paix was their second album, and the first of seven on the Philips label ...
Paroles: Catherine Ribeiro
Musique, orchestration et direction du groupe: Patrice Moullet
"Despite the clashing wardrobes, this lineup caught hanging out al fresco
also hung together with an equal amount of unity and breathing space
throughout the proceedings captured on “Paix.” Instead of partitioning
the folk ballads away from the progressive instrumentals to hang
separately as leaden entities as they did on their preceding album “Ame
Debout,” the musical moves on “Paix” were far more integrated into lithe
constructions that for all their sporadically fluttery graces were
swept together to unflinchingly contrast Ribeiro’s passionate and severe
vocalisations. Moullet’s thematic arrangements were collectively
refracted through the talents of organist Patrice Lemoine who, retained
from the “Ame Debout” sessions, was now allowed to shine throughout the
proceedings with a depth of feeling and sense of the appropriate that
verged on the telepathic. Rounding out the group as veritable one-man
rhythm section was Jean-Sebastien Lemoine, bassist and newly-appointed
operator of Moullet’s self-made percussive device, the percuphone.
Despite its simple title, what Ribeiro+Alpes conceived together on
“Paix” was neither simple nor peaceful with the majority of the record
consisting of two expansive suites that insinuated out from the very
shadowy realms whose depths were being plumbed so deeply..." thebookofseth ...
"Alice ou la dernière fugue", de Claude Chabrol (1977)
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