IMAGES & AVANT-QUART-LE DERNIER JOUR D'UN CONDAMNE, LP, 1979, FRANCE
This very obscure French acid-folk-into-prog curio frames Victor Hugo's text The Last Day of a Condemned Man with plangent and finespun latticeworks of acid folky filigree over which roil fervent beseechings (frequently delay-dappled) with distinct overtones of Christian Decamps' poignant histrionics in Ange. The peculiar tension and release patterns and periodic right-angle eruptions of rock and/or improv strategies makes their equally obscure countrymen in Sonorhc just about the only viable reference point I can manage to muster here; the aforesaid eruptions capping with the unhinged "La Mort", whose wisps of organ drift and tendrils of shrill electronics fall away to reveal a delirious mesh of ethno rhythmic tumble, Alpes-like percussive string percolation, low-lying Fripp-ian sustained guitar sear and mouthy melodrama.
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4 comments:
This is one of the ones on the "Sweat Your Cheeses" list that has eluded me for a dog's age. Much thanks!
I'm listening now, it's as good as I hoped from the description... out there. Thanks for reviving this one.
There's a copy of this in one of the shops in centreville , Toulouse if anyone is looking. I couldn't afford it when I was there.
RE-UP ASAP
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