Minimum Vital - Chapitre 3 (2012) [DVD5 PAL]
(DVD 2012, 55min, Musea Record FGBG 9032)
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MINIMUM VITAL creates some very lush vocal textures with very interesting harmonies. The music has some very infectious rhythms. They mix art-rock influences from YES, an amazing virtuosity coming from fusion, many innovations and a deep mark from medieval and southern European traditional musics. From these diverse elements, France's MINIMUM VITAL has certainly its own individuality on the desk of progressive rock.
"Esprit D'Amor" is certainly the most original expression from the Progressive field of the last ten years! The warm voices and the happy, energetic and direct Progressive music possess a huge musical charisma.
The music is mainly composed by the twin brothers Thierry and Jean-Luc Payssan, who are inspired by other musical sources. Sometimes they're inspired by jazz-rock and fusion; at other times by medieval and Southern European traditional music although music from the Baroque and Renaissance era can be noticed as well, if you listen carefully.
Minimum Vital already released six albums; their best ones are without doubt Sarabandes (1990), La Source (1993) and Esprit D'Amor (1997). Their latest two albums are Atlas (2004) and Capitaines (2009). The twins also released music as the instrumental Vital Duo. This resulted in the CD Ex Tempore (2001) and the DVD Le Jardin Hors Du Temps (2003). These works are a kind of minimal version of the full band. In a way this new release on DVD can be seen as another step forward in creating a kind of minimal music.
Chapître 3 is the first DVD ever published by Minimum Vital. They were captured live on the 4th and the 5th of March, 2011 at Bègles' Mussonville Chapel in France. As the title of the DVD more or less indicates the band has been reduced to a trio. During the main part of the forty-minute set only three of the original founding members are on stage. Jean-Luc Payssan (guitars, mandolin, percussion, saz), Thierry Payssan (keyboards, percussions) and Eric Rebeyrol (bass, bass pedals, saz) succeeded in performing only instrumental music that never gets boring. Without using a real drummer the two brothers use all kinds of percussion attributes like a drum pad, drum pedals and cymbals to create enough strong rhythm parts.
Tracks:
1- Saladin (5:28)
2- Saltarello (7:05)
3- En Castille (6:11)
4- Rod (3:51)
5- L'Enfance Des Sages (8:06)
6- Le Tourdion (6:46)
7- La Basse Danse (6:42)
8- Fantaisie Pour Mandoline (2:40)
9- La Pavane (5:28)
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