RAOUL DUGUAY-ALLLO TOULMOND, LP, 1975, CANADA

 

This first solo outing from the one-time leader of the outlandish and pioneering Nurse With Wound-listed Canuck psych/prog unit L'Infonie is a definite corker. Widely variable in approach, Alllo Toulmond spans the gap from plaintive and tremulously voiced acid folk to percolating Dionne-Bregent-like mallet percussion prog entanglements, with some of the dewily rhapsodic acid folk bits here distinctly smacking of the approach taken by his fellow Quebecers in Harmonium.