Machiavel - 1977 - Jester (full album)
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Machiavel, named after Niccolò Machiavelli, is a Belgian rock group founded in 1974 and still recording and touring today. Its first few albums are typical of the progressive rock movement while the later albums are harder.
Machiavel is a Belgian rock group formed in 1976 by Roland De Greef (bass) and Marc Ysaÿe (drums and vocals) then playing with a group called Moby Dick and Jack Roskam (guitar) and Albert Letecheur (keyboard). They released their first eponymous album in 1976 and gained some attention with the song Cheerlessness displaying Marc's high pitch voice and Albert's heady keyboard line.
Jack Roskam was soon replaced by Jean-Paul Devaux and Mario Guccio joined the group as lead vocalist and showman. This new team released Jester in 1977, a wonderful album totally in line with the so-called Eurock production of the time (Genesis, Supertramp). Jester featured very attractive tunes like Moments with very complex and ambitious creations like Rock, Sea and Tree.
The release of Mechanical Moonbeams in 1978 confirmed the group's musical maturity and made them absolute rock-stars in their homeland. The album featured very melodic songs like Rope Dancer or Mary, much harder tunes like Beyond The Silence, complex, typical Eurock songs like The Fifth Season but also some very complex songs like After The Crop which evolves from acoustic-melodic to punk-like via Eurock and pure-rock, all in the same song. The cover was in the same line as Jester but this time in colour.
Urban Games was probably the band's most successful album. It attempted to move away from the Eurock style and proposed songs leaning on disco (Dancing Heroes), hard-rock (The Dictators), reggae (over the Hills), Eurock still (City Flowers). The rift between the tastes and ideas of the different members of the group was all too apparent in the group and Albert Letecheur and Jean-Paul Devaux left the group, in full glory, in 1979.
Credits:
Bass, Bass [Cellobass], Acoustic Guitar [6 & 12 String], Carillon, Bells, Whistle, Effects [Tape Effects], Performer [Comb], Vocals – Roland De Greef
Drums, Vocals, Tambourine, Maracas, Gong, Percussion [Wood Blocks, Glass Blocks, Broken Glass, Bell Tree, Sleigh Bells, Flextone, Nutcracker] – Marc Ysaye
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar [6 & 12 String], Vocals – Jean-Paul Devaux*
Grand Piano, Electric Piano, Piano [Honky Tonk], Harpsichord, Strings [String Ensemble], Mellotron, Synthesizer, Bells [Tubular Bells], Glockenspiel – Albert Letecheur
Performer, Arranged By – Machiavel
Photography By – L. Schrobiltgen
Producer – Erwin Vervaeke, Machiavel
Remastered By – Ben Wiseman
Vocals, Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet – Mario Guccio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavel
Machiavel is a Belgian rock group formed in 1976 by Roland De Greef (bass) and Marc Ysaÿe (drums and vocals) then playing with a group called Moby Dick and Jack Roskam (guitar) and Albert Letecheur (keyboard). They released their first eponymous album in 1976 and gained some attention with the song Cheerlessness displaying Marc's high pitch voice and Albert's heady keyboard line.
Jack Roskam was soon replaced by Jean-Paul Devaux and Mario Guccio joined the group as lead vocalist and showman. This new team released Jester in 1977, a wonderful album totally in line with the so-called Eurock production of the time (Genesis, Supertramp). Jester featured very attractive tunes like Moments with very complex and ambitious creations like Rock, Sea and Tree.
The release of Mechanical Moonbeams in 1978 confirmed the group's musical maturity and made them absolute rock-stars in their homeland. The album featured very melodic songs like Rope Dancer or Mary, much harder tunes like Beyond The Silence, complex, typical Eurock songs like The Fifth Season but also some very complex songs like After The Crop which evolves from acoustic-melodic to punk-like via Eurock and pure-rock, all in the same song. The cover was in the same line as Jester but this time in colour.
Urban Games was probably the band's most successful album. It attempted to move away from the Eurock style and proposed songs leaning on disco (Dancing Heroes), hard-rock (The Dictators), reggae (over the Hills), Eurock still (City Flowers). The rift between the tastes and ideas of the different members of the group was all too apparent in the group and Albert Letecheur and Jean-Paul Devaux left the group, in full glory, in 1979.
Credits:
Bass, Bass [Cellobass], Acoustic Guitar [6 & 12 String], Carillon, Bells, Whistle, Effects [Tape Effects], Performer [Comb], Vocals – Roland De Greef
Drums, Vocals, Tambourine, Maracas, Gong, Percussion [Wood Blocks, Glass Blocks, Broken Glass, Bell Tree, Sleigh Bells, Flextone, Nutcracker] – Marc Ysaye
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar [6 & 12 String], Vocals – Jean-Paul Devaux*
Grand Piano, Electric Piano, Piano [Honky Tonk], Harpsichord, Strings [String Ensemble], Mellotron, Synthesizer, Bells [Tubular Bells], Glockenspiel – Albert Letecheur
Performer, Arranged By – Machiavel
Photography By – L. Schrobiltgen
Producer – Erwin Vervaeke, Machiavel
Remastered By – Ben Wiseman
Vocals, Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet – Mario Guccio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavel