Английская Википедия:Harmonium en tournée

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Harmonium en tournée is a live double album by Quebecer progressive rock band Harmonium, consisting of a full performance of its third studio album, L'Heptade. The concert was recorded on June 20, 1977, at a sold-out event at the Malkin Bowl in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the band's lengthy tour in promotion of the album. The content offered on the double discs was highly edited from the full, two-hour concert, truncating more than thirty minutes of material by removing much of the between-song French and English banter and explanations from Fiori (to a principally Anglophone audience). It also omitts five songs from the show: the song "C'est dans le noir", which was performed at concerts of this tour but not included on the studio album of L'Heptade, as well as performances of one song from its debut eponymous album, Harmonium, and three from its second release, Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison.

Released after Harmonium's break-up, the live album was organized by the band's former manager, Paul Dupont-Hébert. It was released in late July 1980, in Canada by CBS Disques and in France by Spalax Records. In an interview conducted at the time of its release, Dupont-Hébert praised the live recording as being greatly different from the studio version of L'Heptade, stating that the songs had been given time to mature and develop by the expanded live band (as opposed to the studio recording which features a smaller line-up and many session musicians) and were presented differently without Neil Chotem's orchestral pieces. However, he admitted that the release was driven by the record company's desire to cash-in on the band's long-lasting impact. Although founding band member and principal songwriter Serge Fiori had previously hesitated on letting this live recording be released during the band's lifetime, all members of Harmonium finally agreed to sign the required contracts in early June 1980, granting this release to come out officially (contrary to what the AllMusic review falsely states - it also incorrectly states it was recorded during the band's last tour). The album quickly entered Quebec's top-selling charts, spending three weeks on the list and peaking to No. 3 on August 16, 1980, but ultimately sold fewer copies than CBS was expecting. After being available on vinyl and compact cassette for three years (as late as September 1983), the release was left out of print by CBS, and not given a compact disc reissue in 1987–1991, along with Harmonium's three studio albums. Keyboardist Serge Locat later revealed that it was abandoned due to poor sales.

On November 21, 2001, Korean record label M2U Records re-issued the live album on double compact disc, as part of its Progdelic series. The release was picked up for major distribution throughout Canada via FAB Distribution. The liner notes notably included the text "Duplication approval from Serge Fiori to M2U Records in Korea," however this was later proven to be false and former members, notably Serge Locat, and Dupont-Hébert spoke out against the release to La Presse in March 2002, and engaged in a legal procedure to put an end to the bootleg. Spanish record label Blue Moon Producciones Discográficas also released a double compact disc bootleg as part of its PG series in 2001. Both of the bootlegs were sourced from vinyl rips downloaded from the Harmonium fansite, harmonium.qc.ca, and not from the master tapes, which were owned by Radio-Canada (which had financed the recording of the concert).

The amount of publicity and sales the bootlegs received prompted the band and its former management to locate the master tapes from Radio-Canada and CBS (since bought-out by Sony) and issue an official double compact disc version through Dupont-Hébert's record label, Zone 3 (with distribution via Distribution Select) on June 18, 2002 (in celebration of the concert's twenty-fifth anniversary). Fiori, Locat, and Louis Valois (the band's former bass guitarist) spent two weeks in Fiori's home studio in Le Vieux-Longueuil transferring, editing, and re-mastering the tapes for the re-issue. The album re-entered Quebec's top-selling charts, spending two weeks on the list and peaking to No. 13 on June 29, 2002. The release was officially re-issued on vinyl, compact disc, and digitally by Tacca Musique (with distribution via Unidisc Music) on March 1, 2019.

Track listing

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Harmonium

• Serge Fiori – lead vocals, choir vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Louis Valois – electric bass guitar, Moog Taurus, backing vocals
• Serge Locat – piano, organ, mellotron, synthesizers
• Denis Farmer – drums, percussion
• Libert Subirana – flutes, saxophones, clarinet, choir vocals
• Robert Stanley – electric guitar
• Monique Fauteux – piano, Fender Rhodes piano, lead vocals (on "Le corridor"), choir vocals

Additional personnel

• Paul Dupont-Hébert
• Daniel Aumais
• Mario Beauchamp
• Cliff Bonnell
• Robert Cadieux
• Daniel Goyette
• Walter Hellerman
• Pierre Labonté
• Normand Lachapelle
• François Léger
• Rufus Stewart

Production

• Harmonium – musical arrangements
• Paul Dupont-Hébert – executive producer
• Harvey Robitaille – recording engineer, mixing engineer
• Daniel Aumais – recording engineer
• Michel Lachance – mixing engineer
• William Roberto Wilson – design concept, graphic design
• François Chartier – design concept, typography
• Henry J. Kahanek – photography
• Monique Fauteux – photography
• Libert Subirana – photography
• Louis Valois – photography

External links

• Harmonium en tournée at Spotify (streamed copy where licensed)
• Шаблон:Discogs master
• Шаблон:MusicBrainz release group