Ange (4) – Le Cimetière Des Arlequins

I have a CD release (Ange (4) - Le Cimetière Des Arlequins) of this album and the sound quality isn't very good. Any suggestions as to the best sounding LP release?

This is a fantastic album! I wonder how many were sold with the iron-on print transfer...

Informations sur la matrice (Variant x runout stamped A side): 6325037 1 380 B39
Informations sur la matrice (Variant x runout stamped B side): 6325037 2 380 C17

I bought this strictly because the album cover looked cool and I like buying french Philips label stuff. The music is pretty standard early 70s prog/psych stuff. Over the top singing, pretty lacking in a good melody, even by prog standards. Can't say it's a must have even for serious collectors.

the first edition of this record has a transfert for t-shirt (in bonus for some copies)

There's a locked groove at the end of B3.

This LP is a masterpiece that can easily face the english progressive bands (Genesis, and so on). All around the album, a discording organ sound flows leaving an impression of threat. Ange offers a unique vision of a psychedelic progressive rock influenced by The Moody Blues.

You may not know the band, but you probably know Jacques Brel and his song "Ces gens là" that describes of a middle-class family. Using the same words with a completely different music, Ange creates another world and the middle-class characters become degenerates as the narrators enters madness deeply for every person he presents. Don't miss this incredible re-creation of the track !