HARD PROG - VOYAGE - Big Whale / Outre Tombe - 1970

Pérola obscura vinda de Paris, capital francesa, formada em 1968 por jovens locais. A banda Voyage nunca chegou a lançar um LP, mas gravou 5 compactos na primeira metade dos anos 70 e participou do álbum solo do vocalista Papillon, se desfazendo em 1975. Posto aqui o primeiro single do sexteto, com as curtas músicas "Big Whale" e "Outre Tombe", ambas muito bem executadas na linha hard prog, típico da época, com vocal rasgado em inglês, guitarra fuzz, órgão, flauta e percussão, lembrando em momentos Jethro Tull nos seus primeiros anos. Este é mais um exemplo de grupo com grande potencial e que poderia ter gravado um LP, recomendado!

Voyage - Single - 1970 (MP3 320 kbps):
https://mega.nz/#!owIFVYZY!Z1i0BkZbD2I1CByA16te5iijtuP0hymI37t07yUYTNs

On the B-side of their first single, “Outré Tombe” saw Paris outfit Voyage tap into an odd progressive vein that musically was all over the place while the vocals remained staunchly rooted in the slurred vocabulary of Ian Anderson’s bug-eyed, dirty Mac-wearing “A Song For Jeffrey” guttersnipe persona. But the flute and organ placement take their cue more from “Trespass” than “This Was” and are offset with some excellent, primitive fuzz guitar work outs. During their submersion into a veritable multi-passage tomb that is the B-side, “Outré Tombe” is most outré in its progressive-based thematic tendencies to run through a variety of wildly contrasting and distended expositions. They even wind up burrowing into a wild vamping on “Tequila” (of all things) in the instrumental bridge with brazenly over-recorded fuzz guitar soloing as percussion swamps the background. Then they’re into a breezy jazz section and back into the opening theme of throaty, un-cleared Aqualung vox and more blazing fuzz guitar until on a final flute vignette it gets yanked to a close.
Text: Head Heritage

Jacques Pfeffer (vocal, flauta)
Dominique Cherer (guitarra)
Jean-Noël Rochut (guitarra, vocal)
Claude Chierici (órgão)
Guy Delacroix (baixo)
Gringo Olivier (bateria)

01 Big Whale 3:27
02 Outre Tombe 3:00