La Somme des Parties, Rerecorded best of Shylock, limited time only

 

I'm going to do a few French posts, because I really love their prog and found a few new things.

Shylock is one of my all time favorite artists with its gorgeous mix of chamber classical with electric guitar front and center headed of course by Frederic Lepee (who 10 years later created the Philharmonie band), and hailing from the beautiful Riviera city of Nice.

This album from 2016 features rerecorded material which showed up for the most part on their 2 (masterpiece) albums released 1976 and 1978, although I think some appeared as bonus tracks on the musea Cd release.  There are 2 tracks that are for sure new for this one, including La Roche Trouee, a demo:

And another is the Dixieme, note that the 4th to 9th appeared on the other albums (eg. the famed composition Ile de Fievre is the 8th):

The interplay of piano and electric guitar is just ethereally lovely, and equally, so rare to hear nowadays.  But then the way the track changes completely into a dissonant Frippian riff, and again changes into the classical opera-like synth chord patterns augmented with strings, halfway through! Hard to believe.