Holding the middle ground between two equally staggering (and capital "G" Groovy) musical tendencies of the period, this debut album by French psych/prog guitarist Markusfeld rides a dizzying seam between the borderline-exploitation-psych sensibility of Wolfgang Dauner's Rischkas' Soul and Oimels albums and the mad post May '68 French countercultural carnival atmosphere of their contemporaries in Moving Gelatine Plates, Maajun and (especially) Martin Circus. Almost deliriously wonderful...
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Thank you for posting this rare album - I have been searching for it for years. Pretty interesting music - I just can't get enough of the early 70s obscure albums!
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Anyone can repost this to alternative server like rapidshare or megaupload? Thaniks
ReplyDeleteHI! This album sounds wonderful. Could you repost it. Much thanks for all the great music.
ReplyDeleteLink dead any chance re up ....anyone please :)
ReplyDeleteArgh The link is dead... I would also love to hear this... ALAIN MARKUSFELD-LE MONDE EN ETAGE, LP, 1970, FRANCE. Seems very rare & interesting !!! Please can you repost it ?
ReplyDeleteAlrightee...the link has been uploaded again, this time through Rapidshare, as will all future posts after the debacle of mediafire deleting many of my files.
ReplyDeleteMARKUSFELD... B. Gueffier and F. Grosse state ("La discographie du rock français") that seven albums were realised, including this one!
ReplyDeleteAnd no CD reissue!!
Thanks for enablng an access to French rock History!
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And the link is dead again. Been trying to buy Alain Markusfeld and Francois Breant CDs, but all I can find is Sons Optiques (which arrived in the mail yesterday :)
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