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XII Alfonso - Odyssees

XII ALFONSO"s "The Lost Frontier" is a great first album with an ambitious concept. These young musicians from Bordeaux (France) have built a superb work with long instrumental passages, some female vocals, and a Celtic-influenced atmosphere sometimes reminding of Mike OLDFIELD. "Odyssees" is the second album in 1999, presenting the same sort of beautiful and majestuous music that could have been heard three years ago.

"Claude Monet Vol. 1" is the first delivery of a trilogy dedicated to the last years of the french impressionist painter"s Claude Monet life, for the French group XII ALFONSO. This first one surrenders it occupies from the years 1883 to 1889. The relative influences to progressive bands that are appreciated in the album, I believe that they would come mainly from French formations as VITAL MINIMUM or Jean Pascal BOFFO, besides others as Mike OLDFIELD and Steve HACKETT. Those that have not been satisfied with XII ALFONSO"s first two albums, they can prove with this third that sincerely I believe that it is a great disk. 

Studio Album, released in 2000

Songs / Tracks Listing 
1. Eclipse (7:26) 
2. Odyssée (5:58) 
3. Lithophonia (3:09) 
4. Message 95 (4:15) 
5. Tomorrow (1:43) 
6. Où Vont Les Amants? (7:43) 
7. La Révolution des Oeillets (8:25) 
8. Nil (2:56) 
9. Invisible Links (part 2) (4:30) 
10. Tout Passe (4:35) 
11. Noria (5:07) 
12. Le dernier voyage (2:11) 
13. Dominique Larrey (8:26) 
Extra Track:
14. En Castille (live 10/10/98) (4:40)

Line-up / Musicians 
- François Claerhout / keyboards, programming, lithophones, rainstick, jaleos, percussion 
- Philippe Claerhout / vali, acoustic & electric guitars, bass, lithophones, vocoder, keyboards, Chapman stick, kora, balaphone, e bow, percussion 
- Laurent Dupont / bass 
- Laure Oltra / lyrics, voice 
- Judith Robert / vocals 
- Antoine Tome / vocals
- Stéphane Rolland / electric guitar 
- Michael Geyre / keyboards 
- Thierry Moreno / musical glasses, drums, percussions, lithophones
- Philippe Rougé / lithophones, flute 
- Stephane Merlin / keyboards
- Bernard Ozerol / bass 
- Sandrine Rougé / vocals 
- Mickey Simmonds / keyboards 
- Dan ar Braz / electric guitar 
- Julio Presas / electric guitar, bass, vocals 
- Tito Correa / lyrics
- Lionel Gibaudan / bass 
- Stephane Barrincourt / electric guitar 
- Jean Luc Payssan / mandolin, bass pedals (14) 
- Thierry Payssan / organ (14)