FEATURED CD : Terpandre - s/t

[Soc Prof]

It's been 18 years since I listened to this one, but what I remember is:

1. Okay compositions, but a bit dull.
2. The guitarist was way too low in the mix.

[nosebone]

It was Patrick Tilleman the violinst alright. He'd been with Zao and Forgas. Almost good enough, that.

Aha! That explains the Zoa-ish tempos and a faint unobtrusive whiff of Zeuhl!

[spacefreak]

An album full of instrumental richness. A great one!

From this particular era of french progressive rock, the albums of Mosaic and Ma Banlieue Flasque are also musts.

[Scrotum Scissor]

the Zoa-ish tempos and a faint unobtrusive whiff of Zeuhl!

There's some other connection too which I can't quite recall just now. But yes, it's sometimes easy to forget that in France even "conventional" progressive artists were seemingly well aware of the Zeuhl phenomenon. It can be felt with as disparate names as Clearlight, Wapassou and slightly on Atoll's fabulous L'Araignée-Mal.

However, it can hardly be felt with Aznavour, Dassin or Mouskouri.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Mosaic

This is a fantastic artifact! If MiO hadn't rediscovered this album, a true gem would have passed under the bridge. I particularly love the bizarre yet still so gripping merger of chamber-rock and proto-punk sonorities. With Camizole they were probably one of the very last 70s French bands to really capture that anarchic post-68 spirit of free form experimentalism, juxtaposing strict structures and instrumental primitivism more effectively, I think, than later bands like Art Moulu Trefin or Look deBouk (who were good as well).

[moecurlythanu]

I have the Mosaic reissue, but haven't spun it yet. Time to bump it to the top of the pile.

[bill g]

Wow, well this one definitely flew under my radar. Very interesting, very nicely done though! Something that would have been very nice to have in 1981.