CLEARLIGHT
The Impressionist
Symphony
Gonzo
Prog
time! And it turns out that “Impressionist Symphony”, celebrates the 40th
anniversary of “Clearlight Symphony”. I would have sent a card, but it was too
late, and the shop didn’t have a “sorry I forgot your progtastic anniversary”
card.
Seems
that Clearlight wanted to take the classical composers, such as Ravel, Debussy
and Satie and mix it up with the ethos behind the French impressionist painters,
and see what happened. Which is just about as prog as you can get without
dragons.
There
are a plethora of top prog names on this album, with Cyrille Verdeaux (piano,
synths), Steve Hillage (guitars), Didier Malherbe (wind instruments), Craig Fry
(violin), Vincent Thomas Penny (guitars), Paul Sears (drums, percussion), Linda
Cushma (bass), Chris Kovacks (synths), Remy Tran (synths) and Tim Blake (xils
synths, theramin). And that’s a lot of Gong to be getting on with.
And
it’s an absolute cracker, with the opening ‘Renoir En Couleur’, my particular
favourite. I don’t normally approve of anythng French, but it’s hard to
resist a track called ‘Time Is Monet’, and this has ended up being one of my
favourite prog albums of the year so far.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT GONZO:
 | Clearlight Visions CD - £9.99 |
 | Les Contes Du Singe Fou CD - £9.99 |
 | Tribal Hybrid Concept CD - £9.99 |
 | Forever Blowing Bubbles CD - £9.99 |
 | Impressionist Symphony CD - £9.99 |
 | Clearlight Symphony CD - £9.99 |
 | Best Of Clearlight CD - £9.99 |
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