Thursday, January 10, 2008

LUBAT, LOUISS, ENGEL GROUP-LIVE AT MONTREAUX 72, FRANCE, 1972




A short lived but shit-hot jazz rock unit, this trio have quite the auspicious pedigree. Drummer Bernard Lubat's been a longtime fixture on the French jazz scene, whose tangential ties to the zeuhl school (manifest here via early Magma guitarist Claude Engel's involvement) are also evidenced on both the Laurent Petitgirard and Henri Gougaud LP's that I've posted on MS previously. Former Omega Plus acid rock vet Engel was a founding member of Magma and is prominently featured on both their first album and their amazing Univeria Zekt project and would go on to play in Troc and participate in Jean-Claude Vannier's L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches, while keyboardist Eddy Louiss was a an old hand in the jazz world, working as a former sideman to Stan Getz and Kenny Clarke, though perhaps most significantly in the Humair/Louiss/Ponty trio. The magic engendered by these three is palpable; the scope of this live session ranging from the furiously charged to the vaporously abstract. Not to be missed.

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10 comments:

  1. steveJanuary 10, 2008 at 5:59 PM

    wow thanks man

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2008 at 10:34 PM

    Bernard is a badass, very nice

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2008 at 2:13 AM

    congratulations on your excellent work making all this wonderful music available. i suppose you guys saw the mention to mutantsounds on the latest issue of the wire magazine? it's a good sign of the greatness of participatory culture.

    i also wanted to let you and yur readers know about a music blog i'm starting. it's in spanish, and it's called PESANERVIOS, you may want to check it out:

    www.pesa-nervios.blogspot.com

    keep up with the good work!

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2008 at 2:34 AM

    Yipes!
    thank you very much for this gem.
    another vinyl only-NWW List act marked!
    Poseur Rome

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2008 at 6:25 AM

    Thanks. As a Claude Engel's fan, I'm really delighted.

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  6. UnknownJanuary 11, 2008 at 5:09 PM

    Mint post. (Mint in my neighborhood means excellent.)

    Totally unrelated: have y'all ever or would you be able to post stuff by the Italian band Rivolta Dell'Odio? I fell in love with the LP, but haven't been able to track down the comp tracks or the 7".

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  7. Art SimonJuly 12, 2008 at 10:29 PM

    Great! Thanks!

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  8. isabelbcDecember 10, 2010 at 6:15 AM

    Great!!! i loved it!!
    Isabel :o)

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  9. brian hApril 29, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    nice stuff! thanks!

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  10. al66December 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM

    Mediafire link for this album:

    http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0bvbnm124apfilg

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