Le Bal du Rat Mort. 1971 Harvest
An all over the map type release, with just about every conceivable style being represented somewhere. Avant-rock-cabaret-jazz is about the closest I can come to making any sense of it. Fellow countrymen Red Noise (who Komintern were formed from) and Mahjun are a couple of other references one could point to.
Even though the group were a radical left-wing political collective, there's fortunately little evidence of that here. They just let the music do the talking, as it should be. Had they still been around during the original RIO formation, they most certainly would've been a charter member.
A real mystery that this is still not on CD, since Le Bal du Rat Mort was reissued on vinyl in the 1980s on Cryonic (the predecessor to Musea).
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***Reissued on LP by Cryonic (1986) and Replica (2018).
2/22/10
1 comment:
For years i know that Bernard G. from Musea tries to reissue this GEM, no luck so far :-(
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