"1974 saw guitarist Jacques Blais enter the studio with bassist/producer Yves Laferriere (Contraction, Ville Emard Blues Band). Laferriere brings along several bandmates from Contraction: singer Christiane Robichaud, keyboardist Robert Lachapelle...

"Contraction was formed by musicians accompanying keyboardist Franck Dervieux on his ground breaking Dimension M" album in 1972, namely Yves Laferriere (bass), Christiane Robichaud (vocals), Michel Robidoux (guitar), and Christian St-Roch (drums). They...

A real surprise to find a 35 year old, excellent sound quality live concert recording from this short-lived but excellent band.

"What a long-forgotten treasure!!! Contraction entered Montreal's Studio Tempo during the winter of 1974, in order...

It makes me very, very happy to see this album released. This is one of the major one-shot Quebeçois progressive releases of the 1970s, maybe the major one. Recorded in 1972 while he was dying of cancer, and with the album dedicated to the doctors who...

Vincent Dionne is a Quebecois percussionist who, along with Michel-Georges Bregent, released two very excellent drum/electronics albums in the 1970s. This is a compilation of his two solo albums (Destinations and Parade) from 1988 and 1992...

ExCubus were a Quebecois progressive rock band of the early 1970s - one of Quebec's earliest I am told - who recorded only half an album's worth of material and then re-formed to complete their first album, releasing it as "Memoires Incubussiennes"...

"Yves Laferrière’s eponymous solo album, originally released on Le Tamanoir in 1978) is quite unknown and underrated. Laferrière was bassist for most of the stuff reviewed in the article to this point. On guitar is René Lussier (Conventum, Quatre Guita...

"This 2-CD set features Maneige co-founder and composer Jerome Langlois performing live in a number of settings. The first disc is the Molignak ensemble's performance at FMPM 2006. This group featured three ex-members of Maneige, the bassist of Octobre...

This is a nicely done, charming, period-piece release that has quite good sound considering the unreleased nature and age of the materials. Most people were not even aware of this band's existence! "Maneige fans are in for quite a treat with these long...

After a very, very long time quiet, ProgQuebec have returned for one last hurrah with this excellent archival release, which was issued in a limited quantity.
Like many of the other bands during Quebec’s golden age of progressive rock, there is a lot of influence from the major UK names and also a lot of influence from Gentle Giant (who, admittedly, were more popular in Quebec than they were in the USA).
This is a fine, totally professionally recorded progressive rock release from 1976, that...

When ProgQuebec first started, one of my first requests to them was "can you reissue the two Harvest-label Maneige titles"? Maneige had a few periods and styles, but these two albums, their first two, were the most largely orchestrated (the band were a...

Alain Bergeron: flûtes/flutes, saxophone, claviers/keyboards
Vincent Langlois : claviers/keyboards, percussions
Denis Lapierre: guitares/guitars
Yves Léonard: basse/bass
Paul Picard : percussions, vibraphone, xylophone, cloches tubulaires/tubular bells
Gilles Schetagne: batterie/drums

“This album is an unreleased gem professionally recorded in 1979. It contains the unreleased track La debarbouillette and the lone never reissued track from their live album Composite, Max

"People have been bugging us for these for four years. Finally available on CD, remastered from the original tapes with the blessing of EMI Music Canada, this was the first Maneige album released in 1975. It features the side-long track "Le Rafiot" &...

Great sounding live, archival release from the period when Miriodor were a trio ("Miriodor" and "3rd Warning"). Both of these albums are unfortunately out of print at this time, so it's also the only way to currently hear this period of the band's...

"One of the foremost Quebec prog bands of their day, Morse Code's discography has sold over 100,000 copies and earned them fans around the world. These highly anticipated reissues were green-lighted by EMI Music Canada, remastered from the original stereo masters, feature 12-page booklets and include band composer Christian Simard as executive producer. This, their first Capitol album, features their biggest hits, the symphonic disco instrumental Cocktail for the mass market, and the eleven-minute title...

"Who in 1973 would have thought that the recordings on the just-released soundtrack was the genesis of one of Quebec's favorite bands as we know it? In fact, this album (one of the least promoted of Offenbach's discography, with none of its tracks...

Offenbach were a long lived Quebeçois progressive / progressive hard band whose history reaches back into the early 60s. This is their fourth album and was originally a double and is included here with tons of bonus live material...

"Former keyboardist for both Ville Emard Blues Band and Toubabou, Yvan Ouellet surprised everyone in 1979 with a peaceful and jazzy album which struck a chord within its seven songs. Ouellet is accompanied by former bandmates Yves Laferrière...

"Polygone was formed around three former members of ‘70s Québec progressive rock group Incubus (since reunited as ExCubus with two albums also available through ProgQuébec): Marc Delage (guitars, vocals, bass, piano and mellotron), Michel Phaneuf (synthesizers, clavinet, mellotron and vocals), and Pierre Poulet (guitar and bass), who were joined by Claude Phaneuf (guitars and bass) and Luc Proulx (drums) in 1979; the group remains active until 1983 (also the year André Barrière replaced Claude Phaneuf...

Excellent progressive/jazz-rock band from Montreal who recorded two extremely well regarded and hugely sought-after albums in the mid 1970s and who then basically dissapeared without a trace. To me, they combine elements of Canterbury jazz-rock with...

This is a reissue of the complete works of this Montreal-based ensemble.

"This remastered 2-CD collection contains both complete albums released by this group led by percussionist Michel Sguin. It also contains a bonus multimedia section...

First-time ever on CD for this early Quebeçois progressive rock album. This includes both covers (the one that got them in trouble with them on the cover of a faked "Allo Police" (Quebec's tatty scandal rag, ala National Enquirer) and the replacement...