Not sure how many here are aware of these guys but their 'Concerts Live 1972-1975' CD release is quite interesting. French underground band who often tread similar ground to Gong from the same time period. What is frustrating if the kind of hodgepodge nature to the CD, and it is sometimes very difficult to truly understand the development of their sound at the time. Very little of it seems to be from actual live concerts, and much of it seems quite tweaked with modern technology, like added digital reverb and wacky stereo ehancement.
There are some jams that easily could have been taken from a 1973 Gong concert and some synth ideas that could have been outtakes from You. Really weird release and apparently now very expensive and OOP.
Anybody know these guys? I guess they opened for Gong. There is at least one concert where this is documented; June 19, '73 in Lille, France.
Did any of their music ever appear on any compilations back at the time of their existence? It's really hard to get a feel for what they were really about at the time via this posthumous release. Aparently there is also a book about them and the psychedelic French rock underground, written by Lionel Magal; complete with DVD?
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