At our monthly L'Amour Electronique soiree back in July someone came and asked me if I had any Jean-Claude Vannier . "I have Histoire de Melody Nelson " , I replied. But he wanted Vannier solo. He said there was this Jean-Claude Vannier solo album that was recorded around the same time as Melody Nelson , and it was even more nuts. I did my research a few days after and found L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches , which was re-released by Finders Keepers Records [...]
Colour me surprised by the work of Sylvie Vartan , a yé-yé girl of no little talent. What I expected to be another French girl belting out typical sixties fare has revealed itself to be a smart, tough little comp of some of Sylive's best sixties moments -- though the highlights are her tracks from 1967, of which there are too few here. Missing too are the three tracks from 1968 produced by Jean-Claude Vannier , 'La Maritza', 'Un p'tit peu beaucoup' and 'Jolie poupée'. But despite this lack, Sylvie's bite and bellow pushes through and [...]
Been trying to assemble some thoughts on Michel Corringe 's (1946-2001) J.-C. Vannier -produced debut without much success. It's a nice enough slice of late sixties chanson, which benefits from Vannier's trademark banjo on the title track and grooves into familiar territory on 'Cigarettes sur cigarettes', but doesn't wander much further out than that -- though I love the pipe whistle that opens 'De toutes choses'. The LP was released as Les paumés in 1969 and reissued as La route in 1974. There is a 2008 CD release which differs by one tracks from [...]
Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) is Serge Gainsbourg's pedophilia record. It shouldn't be confused with his incest record or the one about a serial killer who thinks his head is made of cabbage. It’s a concept album about one man’s obsession with a 15-year-old.
Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) is Serge Gainsbourg's pedophilia record. It shouldn't be confused with his incest record or the one about a serial killer who thinks his head is made of cabbage. It’s a concept album about one man’s obsession with a 15-year-old.
i dont know much about any of the below, but its a pretty righteous collection of 70's funk, jazz, groove and all around weirdness that only the 70's could have produced. some of the stuff actually sounds pretty timely, while some other stuff would make awesome personal theme music for either sweet loving making or just walking down the street. 1. ritual - nico gomez 2. je m'appelle geraldine - jean-claude vannier 3. pcyhedelic mood - piero piccioni 4. t plays it cool - [...]
The overwhelming, suffocating, massive glut of bandwidth has forced me into the bleakest of landscapes. I am adding to it - a speck of ash [ x ] and a single blade of yellowed, trampled grass [ x ]. My favourite song from many years ago: Something - Call And Response A future fit for me: L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches - Jean-Claude Vanier Proof beyond proof of the main conflicting forces in my life: As a concept becomes [...]
Another guestpost in this Month of Male @ Filles Sourires, is by Jan Hiddink from the notorious Amsterdam Paradiso . Late at night. We’re watching the tv show of Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson in growing disbelief. If there was music made in Paris, more than 35 years ago, that was this dangerous and adventurous –why then bother about psych or krautrock any longer? What if maybe the real thing was not to be found in the USA or in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, but in sweet Paris, mon cherie ? [...]
Macromantics - Scorch (mp3) - Moments is Movement (Kill Rock Stars 2007) Macromantics – Moments is Movement / Kill Rock Stars I’ll be perfectly honest, after pulling Moments in Movement from its envelope and reading the short press release, my initial response was a hearty ‘meh.’ Naturally, the Lady Sov association was front and center (white female rapper, “courting both pop culture and hip hop heads,” yada yada yada), but goddamn was I shut up after throwing the CD in the player. Macromantics spits [...]
I got a package from B-Music / Finders Keepers containing two of their upcoming releases, neither of which I'd heard of. B-Music's website informs us that they are " dedicated to the obsessive and painstaking pursuit of of obscure, obsolete, exquisitely obnoxious, unbelievable, underexposed, and undeniably delectable discs of experimental pop music from the psyched out 60s and 70s... " Based on these two discs, they've succeeded beautifully. Susan Christie "was a Philly-based folk singer" in the late '60s "who had [...]
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