Artist: Tangerine
Title: Memoire
Year Of Release: 1976/1994
Label: Spalax
Genre: Folk Rock, Prog Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 38:40
Total Size: 233 Mb (scans)
Tracklist:
01. Sad and Lonely (3:58)
02. Ship to Mars (4:24)
03. Gueule de Bois (3:30)
04. Unexpected Visitor (5:07)
05. Voices in my Mind (3:57)
06. Era Verita (3:23)
07. La Source de Vie (3:46)
08. The Way I Feel (6:32)
09. Beggar Born to Die (3:58)
Marc Donahue / Vocals, guitars, flute, claviers, saxophone, bongos
Gabriel Malka / Vocals, 12-string guitar
Charlie Sabban / Vocals, acoustic guitar
Well here's a band that made a pretty dramatic shift in direction between their first and second albums! Tangerine were a French prog-folk act whose main appeal on their debut were the vocals of one Valéry Btesh, a folk voice in the classic sense who apparently departed for a solo career following that release. This album features the remaining musicians, all male and all of whom sing and play guitars in addition to other instruments. There are a couple of guest musicians scattered throughout as well.
The biggest difference in the sound though is that the music on this album is decidedly more west-coast American soft-rock influenced than their first release. That album also had some soft-rock leanings including a blatant rip-off of America's famous pop-single "Sandman", but here the transition is pretty much complete....~Review by ClemofNazareth
