Visions (Clearlight album)

Infobox Album
Name = Visions
Type = studio
Artist = Clearlight


Released = Start date|1978
Recorded =
Genre = progressive rock
psychedelic music
jam band
jazz fusion
new age music
Length = 37:40
Label = Celluloid / LTM
Producer = Cyrille Verdeaux
Reviews =
Last album = "Les Contes du Singe Fou"
1976
This album = "Visions"
1978
Next album =

Visions is a progressive rock album by Clearlight, released in 1978 on Celluloid / LTM Records in France. (LTM Records is specified on the cover, but the label says Celluloid Records.)

Clearlight's final album set off in yet another new direction: while previous albums incorported a new age element blended with other styles, this one is primarily a new age album, reflecting the emergence of new age music as a popular genre. The album is mostly instrumental, but has one song with lyrics and another with spoken word, both in French. Indian instruments such as sitar and tablas are prominent. "Fullmoon Raga" expands upon musical themes from "Master Builder" from Gong's "You" album, blending Indian music with rock music.

Track listing

ide one

#"Spirale d'Amour" (Cyrille Verdeaux) – 7:20
#"Messe Caline" (Verdeaux) – 6:30
#"Au Royaume des Mutants" (Verdeauz / Francis Mandin) – 6:00

ide two

#"Fullmoon Raga" (Clearlight) – 10:55
#"Songe de Cristal" (Verdeaux) – 3:50
#"Paix Profonde" (Verdeaux / Patrick Depaumanou) – 3:05

Personnel

*Cyrille Verdeaux – grand piano, ARP Odyssey, gong
*Didier Lockwood – violin, bass violin
*Didier Malherbe – flute, tenor sax, soprano sax
*Christian Boulé – electric guitar, cosmic bottleneck
*Jacky Bouladoux – drums, percussion
*Philippe Melkonian – bass
*Luc Plouton – Minimoog
*Patrick Depaumanou – Indian sitar
*Mohamed Taha – Indian tablas
*Gérard Aumont and Gérard Gustin – vocals
*Francis Mandin – synthesizer programming

produced by Cyrille Verdeaux