The third album from this French band.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of keyboards, bass, drums, guitars, flute, chorus and vocals.
This band got my attention when I reviewed their 1992 album Don Giovanni back in July 2014. Then I forgot about the band before I got their final two albums not so long ago.
Don Giovanni was their second album and a good album. See my review here.
Versailles is off course the big castle the French emperors built and lived in when they were in power. I believe the French president now live there. It is a massive building and one of the must-see places in Europe.
So it is only fitting that a French symphonic prog band use that name. What is more natural than that ?
Versailles takes a lot from Ange and the chanson singer Jacques Brel. There is also the usual French folk music fare here too.
Some of the songs are long, almost twenty minutes long. This album clocks in at almost seventy minutes too.
The French vocals are really good. The music is both theatrical and complex. Very complex at times. The keyboards sounds also gives us a rich melotron sound and some orchestral pieces.
Fans of French symphonic prog gets their wishes fulfilled here. This album is indeed a good album and one to check out.
3 points
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