La Saga de Ragnar Lodbrock - Saga de Ragnar Lodbrock (Reissue) (1979/1999)

This is the resulting album of a bunch of non-professional musicians, who used to organize events (mostly theatre pieces) d started to revolve around the Proust brothers and guitarist Alliard and bassist Vanderkempen. Having fallen onto poetry text describing Viking invasions into medieval France, François had his brother (an actor) adapting the text and Alliard adapting the ideas to music. The project started developing medieval folk-influenced mini-opera-type of concept, which one might wonder through which miracle it came to fruition, given the punk upheaval sweeping France at the time. The recording sessions were spread over 78 and 70, the album being released in March of that year under the new label Solaris and received a pressing of 1,000 copies. Another similar concept based on La Chanson De Roland was planned but never came to fruition.