Maneige

The bottom line is, Maneige was Quebec’s response to Pierre Moerlen’s Gong. But before achieving the comparative commercial achievement of its percussion-driven jazz-rock recipe, the group experienced an interval of complex, free of charge improv-tinged progressive rock and roll that ended using the departure of clarinetist/pianist Jérôme Langlois in 1976. All associates of Maneige are classically educated music artists. Langlois and flutist/saxophonist Alain Bergeron fronted the semi-pro prog rock and roll group Enduring Weep in the first ’70s. In 1972, they dissolved the music group and teamed up with drummer Gilles Schetagne, percussionist Paul Picard, and bassist Yves Léonard to create Maneige. The name of the music group is really a misspelling of the term manège, this means carousel, or even more properly, roundabout, and undoubtedly the title of the influential Yes music released that yr. In its start, the music of Maneige was extremely original. Predicated on acoustic instrumentation along with a contrasting interplay between Bergeron’s pastoral flute lines, Schetagne’s challenging rhythms, and Langlois’ attempts to press the music group into atonal place, the music was far more demanding than what another local prog rock and roll outfits had to provide at that time. However Maneige found a significant viewers. In 1974, they opened up for Ekseption in Montreal, allegedly stealing the display. A record agreement was authorized with Harvest as well as the group moved into the studio, documenting Maneige and Les Porches, released just a few weeks aside in 1975. At that time, percussionist Vincent Langlois and guitarist Denis Lapierre have been put into the lineup. Disagreements over musical path resulted in the departure of Jérôme Langlois, who continuing like a film and Television rating composer. The “fresh” Maneige authorized with Polydor, shortened the tracks, eliminated the avant-gardist side, and centered on limited jazz-rock amounts on Ni Vent…Ni Nouvelle (1977) and Libre-Service (1978), undoubtedly their best-selling name. Right now led by Bergeron’s catchy flute melodies as well as the jumping tempo section, the group liked FM airplay and also recorded styles for Television shows. A Canadian tour took the music artists everywhere in 1978 and yielded the live recording Composite (1979). A music event in France and showcases in america that year provided the impression which the group’s profession was reaching a fresh height, but stuff disintegrated with the finish of the 10 years. Schetagne known as it quits and Polydor lowered the group (the destiny of many works connected with prog rock and roll at that time). The group recruited drummer Pierre Gauthier for Montréal 6am, released on the tiny imprint Intérim in 1980, and performed in the festivities for the 350th anniversary of the town of Boston. But a plague of departures remaining just Bergeron and Léonard up to speed. Schetagne was cut back, along with program keyboardist (and ex-Pollen) Claude Lemay, and guitarist Michel Le François to record Pictures in 1981. It got two years to discover a channel release a the album, where period UZEB was acquiring jazz-rock to fresh heights, producing Maneige sound out-of-date. The group disbanded soon afterwards.