Heldon - un reve sans consequence speciale (1976)

By the mid-70's, while other progressive bands were still lost in the tranquility of outer space, Heldon looked to the future, if not the timeless, with Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale.

Like a turbine in a factory, "Marie Virginie C" proceeds like a multi-layered, dissonant, energy-producing art-rock generator. Borrowing techniques from free-jazz (the squelching brass, the clanging percussion), musique-concrete and kosmische-rock (the inhuman rhythm) and art-rock, "Marie Virginie C" channels it's energy, like a giant solar panel, into a glaring dance.

"Elephanta" reveals the influence of free-jazz and musique-concrete even more within it's discordant structure, while exotic and ethnic percussion further adds to what is already a sonic puzzle. By the end of the track, we have witnessed the journey from the subconscious primitive to a present traumatic awakening, as evidenced in the Wagnerian, Teutonic, elliptical furore of "MVC II". Stunning!

Sadly, "Toward The Red Line" didn't seem to offer much, apart from Pink Floyd's "On The Run" extended and revisited, never really taking off like the previous three tracks.

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