I'm about to start exploring Cano, and thought I'd see if there are fans of this 70s band here. The reviews on Progarchives have my expectations set high.
I'm about to start exploring Cano, and thought I'd see if there are fans of this 70s band here. The reviews on Progarchives have my expectations set high.
Ahhh, so Avril Lavigne isn't the only Franco-Ontarian in the music game!
Never checked these guys out, I'm going to sample the album Au Nord de Notre Vie.
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Their first 3 Albums are pretty good Folk Prog, from there on they became more Pop oriented.
If you are into stuff like Renaissance they are a band to explore.
They’re more prog than Beau Dommage but their stuff never reaches the heights of Harmonium at their best. Still cool to hear French-speaking folk-rock from Ontari-ari-ari-o! Rachel Paiement has a lovely voice. Sad story about André Paiement, the ex-playwright who was the mastermind behind the whole project, who killed himself after the recording of their third album, Eclipse.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
I have one album. Couldn't tell you the name. Haven't spun it in ages. Though I do recall enjoying it.
Love CANO (it's my doing entering them in Prog Archives)... I saw them a few (3 or 4) times in the late 70's
Nathan Mahl are also Franco-Ontarians I believe (and so is Alanis Morissette)
The first two are really excellent (and more exciting than anything Haslam's Renaissance has ever done after Ashes Bruning) and should still be found in CD...
Eclipse is a very good third album, but never saw a CD reissue... Forget what came after, IMHO
Indeed...
Beau Dommage had a country flavour that I never appreciated
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Any Franco-New Brunswickers in prog? The only popular singer I know from the French-speaking part of NB is Patsy Gallant, and she’s certainly not prog!
I really don’t hear the Renaissance comparison at all.The first two are really excellent (and more exciting than anything Haslam's Renaissance has ever done after Ashes Bruning) and should still be found in CD...
A couple of largely English language albums. Spirit of the North and another I forget the title of.Eclipse is a very good third album, but never saw a CD reissue... Forget what came after, IMHO
Their best album (by far) is Ou est passée la noce?, which has a strong Jethro Tull feel to some of the songs. Frankly, I hear a bit of that country flavour in CANO as well.Beau Dommage had a country flavour that I never appreciated
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I have "Tous dans l’ meme bateau" and "Au nord de notre vie". Very enjoyable.
I rate these guys as a 2nd tier Francophone prog outfit. I only ever bought "Tous Dans L' Même Bateau" and rarely spin it.
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Guy Leblanc has sung in French but on his "solo" album only (despite my trying to convince him to do it more often).
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
I found "Tous Dans L'Meme Bateau " and "Au Nord Du Notre Vie" on vinyl in our station library. I really liked their sound, even more than Harmonium.
It made me stop a minute and think about how those LPs might have arrived at a college radio station in Hartford CT in 1976 and 77 respectively. I took a minute to honor those wonderful label managers and distributors at the time who found the curious listeners all over the world. We really owe them a great deal for acting as this message board of the 1970's.
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CANO really caught the up-north spirit (which is really one the mid-north >> Sudbury and North Bay area), whether in Ontario or Quebec
I wouldn't want to choose between Harmonium and them... Somehow both strike my spirit and imagination, but in different ways... But Harmonium was definitely more even in terms of songwriting (outside Dixie, they have no bad track)
you should still find at ck-heap prices their third album, Eclipse...
relatively different, but maybe a tad proggier than their first two (as if Cano had rubbed shoulder with FM (black noise era)
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Dixie is a great track! It has that superb klezmer-like clarinette solo. It also fits Les Cinq Saisons perfectly as it represents a typical Québec summer: short and lively.
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
the only thing I like about it is that it is short
It sounds totally different from the rest of the album - sticks out like a sore thumb, really...
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
cano are ok for a northern canadian band. ok, but not unforgetable
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
I have a (mainly white cover) copy of "Au Nord..." which has a band interview between the tracks!
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