Michel Madore is a painter, sculptor, and musician from Quebec. He recorded two albums of progressive music in the late-seventies. On this one, the first of the two, he plays guitar and "string synths," and is joined by Ron Proby on moog and soprano sax. The music is a distinctive take on prog: spacey, a bit jazzy, and very melodic. There is somewhat of a new-age bent here, but the music isn't trancey or catatonic—it's energetic (but not exhausting) and dynamic, consisting of shifting harmonic plates of layered sound. The crystalline, finger-picked guitar is stabilizing, metronomic, merging with the rhythm section, complemented by the swooshing synths and soaring woodwinds. Beautiful, refined, compelling, highly listenable Canadian music.
Michel Madore - Le Komuso à Cordes
LP, Barclay, 1976
A1 Calligraphie / Mac
A2 Ballade
A3 L'Avant-Dernière
B1 Stanley
B2 Rush
B3 Juggernaut
B4 Bâli
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