Housed in a super-elaborate handmade collage sleeve, this album of magnificent one-man higher-key improv blowouts (presumably multi-tracked) is brought to you by Aussie X-factor Boiteaux (who there is not a single peep to be found about online) and realized via drums, piano, flute, voice and "body percussion". Boiteaux establishes the outwardly bound agenda here right out of the gate with accretions of piano densities and tripped flute whirlwinds loosely yoked to massed rhythmic flurries in a way distinctly suggestive of a will to transcendence, a sensibility that carries through the entirety of this lost gem.
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The reason that no information on Lucien is to be found is that he is better known as Louis Burdett. Louis is one of THE most amazing percussionists/musicians to have come out of Australia... a veritable maniac of music with a terrifying reputation (justified, by the way) and incredible technique. I saw him turn a McDonalds slurpy into a talking drum and entertain a restaurant full of peasants for a full half hour.
ReplyDeleteI was in a number of bands with Louis and I regard that period as the most intense musical apprenticeship I ever absolved!
terminaltoy-thanks for the boucoup info! Thats quite a tale about the slurpee talking drum! Yeah...the name Louis Burdett is also stated on the back cover along with Lucien Boiteaux (was wondering what the deal was with that!), but then Boiteaux is the name prominently displayed on the record labels and not Burdett, so I figured that was the accurate name for the artist at hand. Hmmmm. Anyway, a search on Burdett turned up only a site that vaguely mentioned him in passsing, but there's really no more info to be found under that name than Boiteaux, alas. Was he in any bands or just a free music free agent?
ReplyDeleteAnd of course you DID mention that you were in a band with him, which pretty much answers the last question I posed. That'll teach me to reply to posts 5 minutes after waking up! :-)
ReplyDeleteFeel free to expound with any further Boiteaux/Burdett info, if the urge strikes ya and thanks again...
Hmm, a full Vita of Louis career is difficult to squeeze into a comment box. Abbreviated highlights: Born 1953, trained as musician in the Merchant Navy, 1968 LSD, 1970 Free Kata (Australia's first, and for many decades, only free jazz group),1980s member of Louis Tillet band, New Christs, NRG666, The Unconscious Collective and a million other bands. I will cobble an anecdotal tribute to Louis on my blog within the next week. Cheers and thanks for the great service!
ReplyDeleteFinal links to Louis:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s862629.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/06/1060145721017.html
I don't know how to hyperlink these URL's, so cut and paste, sorry.
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ReplyDeleteI just wanna hear this. SOMEONE PLEASE
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