Si on avait besoin d'une cinqui猫me saison
by Harmonium
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 April 1975
- Label: Celebration
- Country: Canada
- Length: 41:28
- Community rating: 4.4/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Marie Bernard, Sabin Brunet
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The second studio album by Qu茅b茅cois band Harmonium, 'Si on avait besoin d'une cinqui猫me saison' was recorded at Studio Six in Montreal with reedsman Pierre Daigneault and keyboardist Serge Locat newly added to the founding trio of Serge Fiori, Michel Normandeau and Louis Valois. Its five tracks assign one song to each of the four seasons before the seventeen-minute instrumental 'Histoires sans paroles' imagines a fifth, and Rolling Stone later ranked it at number 36 on its list of the 50 greatest progressive rock albums.
Genres
Descriptors: intricate, long-form, atmospheric, acoustic, melodic
Tracklist
- Vert (5:34)
- Dixie (3:26)
- Depuis L'Automne (10:25)
- En Pleine Face (4:51)
- Histoires Sans Paroles (17:12)
Credits
- Michel Normandeau - accordion [accord茅on], dulcimer, guitar [guitare 6 cordes], vocals [voix], lyrics by [paroles], music by [musique]
- Fred Torak - arranged by [arrangements]
- Louis Valois - bass [basse], electric piano [piano 茅lectrique], vocals [voix]
- Serge Locat - electric piano [piano 茅lectrique], grand piano, mellotron, synthesizer [synth茅tiseur]
- Louis-Pierre Bougie - illustration [illustrations]
- Sabin Brunet - lacquer cut by
- Yves Ladouceur - supervised by [directeur artistique]
- Judi Richards - vocals [voix]
- Peter Burns - engineer [ingenieur], mixed by [mixage], producer
- R.A. Morten - executive-producer [producteur delegue]
- Nelson Vipond - mixed by [mixage]