Agapè – Le Troisième Seuil (1972, LP, Canada)

Tracklist:
A1 Ouverture 5:50
A2 Camarade 2:43
A3 Vous Êtes Pas Tannés De Crever 3:20
A4 Avez-Vous Vu Passer Une Colombe? 4:15
A5 Le Jugement Dernier 5:30
B1 Le Temps Des Partances 2:55
B2 Le Printemps Des Pauvres 5:22
B3 Eden 5:22
B4 Le Troisième Seuil 3:05
B5 La Fin Des Temps 6:12

Musicians:
Bass – Carole Paquin
Bass, Guitar, Choir – Jacques Mercure
Electric Guitar – Gilles Bergeron
Electric Piano, Flute, Organ – Yves Chevalier
Electric Piano, Organ, Choir – Dupéré
Electronic Wind Instrument – Jean Bourassa
Guitar, Bass, Choir – François Kirouac
Guitar, Vocals – Jean Piché (A2, B2, B3, B5), Marc Lebel (A3, A4, B1)
Percussion – Michel Martel
Trumpet – Claude Duchesneau
Vocals, Choir – André Dumont (A5), Paul Arsenault (A5)

Large Canadian ensemble, centered around young priest and artistic director of the Editions RM label André Dumont.Dumont wanted to work on a Xian concept album, so he gathered several local talents and musicians of Editions RM and recorded this nowadays rare LP, which opens with the fantastic organ-laden dark ''Ouverture'' and then slowly moves into conventional Psychedelic Pop and Folk Rock, served basically by the acoustic guitar/strings, flute, piano lines and the French religious lyrics, flavored also by some trumpet and rural percussion.Overall this goes into mellow Folk Rock with sparse, grandiose organ and smooth arrangements in a rather conservative Quebec Prog Folk style, which works quite well. (apps79)