La bourse ou la vie

by Contraction

La bourse ou la vie cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1974
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 42:41
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The second album by this Quebecois progressive rock band refines their blend of symphonic structures and jazz-rock fusion. Featuring Christiane Robichaud's soaring, often wordless vocal performances and intricate keyboard interplay, the record stands as a prime example of the vibrant 1970s Montreal progressive scene.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, nonlexical-vocables

Tracklist

  1. Jos coeur (Ouverture) (1:08)
  2. L'alarme 脿 l'oeil (3:49)
  3. Claire fontaine (5:10)
  4. Sam m'Madown (3:40)
  5. Jos coeur (Fermeture) (4:59)
  6. Vent du sud (0:46)
  7. La bourse ou la vie (18:03)
  8. L'芒me 脿 tout faire (5:02)

Credits

  • Contraction - primary artist
  • Jimmy Tanaka - congas, percussion
  • Denis Farmer - drums
  • Richard Perrotte - drums
  • Carlyle Miller - flute
  • Marcel Beauchamp - guitar, organ [eminent]
  • Robert Stanley - guitar
  • Robert Lachapelle - piano, electric piano, organ, organ [eminent], synthesizer, written-by, arranged by

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