L'heptade
by Harmonium
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 November 1976
- Label: CBS
- Country: Canada
- Length: 1:24:40
- Community rating: 4.01/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Expanding their acoustic folk origins into a staggeringly ambitious double concept album, Quebec's Harmonium delivered a monumental pillar of French-Canadian progressive rock. 'L'heptade' is a remarkably lush, deeply melancholic symphonic masterpiece, navigating wonderfully warm, heavily orchestral arrangements and deeply poetic, autumnal meditations on human consciousness.
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, orchestral, symphonic, progressive, folk, male-vocals, French language, suite
Tracklist
- Prologue - Remasterisé (4:26)
- Comme un fou - Remasterisé (7:46)
- Sommeil sans rêves - Remasterisé (1:22)
- Chanson noire - Remasterisé (8:06)
- Le premier ciel (11:24)
- L'exil - Remasterisé (12:55)
- Le corridor/Les premières lumières - Remasterisé (7:45)
- Lumières de vie - Remasterisé (14:10)
- Comme un sage - Remasterisé (13:53)
- Épilogue - Remasterisé (2:47)
Credits
- Harmonium - primary artist, arranged by [arrangements musicaux]
- Serge Fiori - acoustic guitar [guitare acoustique 6 cordes], backing vocals [choeur], directed by [direction musicale], electric guitar [guitare électrique 6 cordes (solo)], twelve-string guitar [guitare acoustique 12 cordes], twelve-string guitar [guitare électrique 12 cordes], vocals [voix], lyrics by [paroles], music by [musique], backing vocals [choeur (finale)], electric guitar [guitare électrique 6 cordes], solo vocal [solo de voix]
- Michel Lachance - arranged by [arrangements musicaux], directed by [direction musicale], mixed by [mixage], producer, recorded by [prise de son], tambourine
- Neil Chotem - arranged by [arrangements musicaux], celesta [célesta], conductor, electric piano [piano fender rhodes], orchestrated by [arrangements orchestraux], piano, synthesizer [synthétiseur], music by [musique]
- Estelle Ste-Croix - backing vocals [choeur], solo vocal [solo de voix]
- Monique Fauteux - backing vocals [choeur], backing vocals [choeur (finale)], vocals [voix]
- Pierre Bertrand - backing vocals [choeur], backing vocals [choeur (finale)]
- Richard Séguin - backing vocals [choeur]
- Louis Valois - bass [basse], directed by [direction musicale], electric piano [piano fender rhodes], organ [orgue yamaha]
- Jack Cantor - cello [1er violoncelle]
- Anthony Chotem - classical guitar [guitare classique]
- Michel Normandeau - design [conception de la pochette], lyrics by [paroles], music by [musique], acoustic guitar [guitare acoustique 6 cordes], graphic design
- Robert Lussier - design [conception de la pochette], photography by [photos], graphic design
- Denis Farmer - drums [batterie], percussion [percussions], percussion [chaines]
- Robert Stanley - electric guitar [guitare électrique 6 cordes (solo)], electric guitar [guitare électrique 6 cordes]
- Serge Locat - electric organ [orgue yahama], mellotron, organ [orgue à tuyaux], piano [solo de piano], soloist, synthesizer [synthétiseur], electric piano [piano électrique], mellotron [mellotron synthétisé]
- Jeanne Baxtresser - flute [flûte]
- Dorothy Weldon Masella - harp [harpe]
- Paul Dupont-Hébert - management [direction artstique et gérance]
- John J. Williams - management [direction artstique pour cbs]
- H. Perrot - mixed by [mixage]
- Peter Bowman - oboe [hautbois]
- Louis Charbonneau - percussion [percussions]
- Danielle Arsenault - photography by [denis farmer photo]
- Dave Taillon - photography by [serge fiori photo]
- Nelson Vipond - recorded by [matériel additionel enregistré par]
- Calvin Sieb - violin [1er violon]
- Libert Subirana - flute [flûte en sol électrique]