JPM AND CO.-PHANTASMES, LP, 1977, FRANCE

Following on from my posts of his Les Chats Renaissance and Visitors LP's and Jim's post of his Horrific Child album, here's one more key piece of the puzzle from the mad gallic genius that is Jean Pierre Massiera, here laying out the deliciously wrong and exquisitely questionable cosmic disco template he'd carry to a different set of unforgettable ends in the course of his work with Venus Gang, Rockets and Visitors in their second incarnation. A confounding cavalcade of luridly swelling disco strings, caterwauling choral prog interludes in the post-Magma spacy/smurfy mode of Elohim, horn-y funk charting, queasy diversions into syrupy balladeering, and continuous and fabulously appropos-of-nothing applications of his trademarked histrionic grotesquerie, here manifesting itself in as headscratching a fashion as ever (snarly vocoded spieling interspersed with nazi rally excerpts cross-cut by zapping electronics, anyone?). Oh and watch out for the rapping midget and the smoking penis. They'll get you every time...

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