The second and final album from this band from Canada.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of percussion, bass, guitars, violin, dulcimer and vocals.
One guest added a flute on this album.
I reviewed their first album A L'affut D'un Complot (1977) for ProgArchives back in November 2011. The review can be found here. It is a good album. It has taken me almost fifteen years to follow up this review with this review of their second album. That is far too long.
Le Bureau Central Des Utopies is clocking in at three quarters of an hour.
In my review of their first album, I compared the band to the Dutch band/masters Flairck. I was also reviewing their album around the same time and the comparison was made. It is a comparison which is pretty correct on both their albums... but still not entirely correct.
Aranis too is a good reference here as the music is acoustic chamber-orchestra folk rock and neo-classical music.
There are some sparse electric guitars, dulcimer and French vocals here. Most of the music is violin dominated mid-tempo music.
The music is both very esoteric and very eclectic. It is the type of music I am not entirely familiar with and the type of music I encounter once every second year. The quality is decent enough though.
If esoteric folk rock is your thing....
2 points
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