ten am stroll.

to keep with the theme of cool guy french jazz, we have this jammer from 75. it reminds me at times of giallo jazz & other times tropicalia, this is a great album to clean yr apartment to at nine in the morning.

i will return.

nothing mind blowing here, but just really nice cool french jazz from the mid nineties with avant touches here & there. definitely has some slight eastern vibes to it, but doesn't veer full into romani territory. great afternoon jams.

they don't know.

i've posted heldon before. more mind warpingly good french prog shit from the seventies.

ps been working on the next qualchan. tape, been busy. also working on next smoke signals mix as a companion piece to the album. get pumped. hope y'all are enjoying yr summer!

another monday.

really pleasant french folk record from the late seventies. gets a little too middle earth for me at moments, but still nice. not my rip, so all thanks to the islands.

ps have been wanting to post about this for a minute now, but seriously fuck michael gira. my heart goes out to larkin grimm & for all survivors.

gray wave city.

zeuhl proggy psych jazz fusion gem from 1980 with richard pinhas (!!!) laying down some fucking siqq synth lines on top.

jazzphase.

amazingly good french private press psych prog record from the seventies. they should have scored a rollin film.

be brave.

eccentric french cold wave from the mid eighties.

love without sound.

so i had to share this because this blew my mind completely wide open. a gorgeously lush french psych record from 1971 with face melting guitar leads & washed out wahs & a pseudo japanese concept of uniting the west with the east running through it. seriously so so so good, i listen to the album at least once or twice the entire way through every day & find new things every time to enjoy about it. my favorite jam is aisere i love you fershure. you'll see, you really will.

the soundtrack to brian shortt walking into central market.

Once again delving deep into their archive of obscurities and long forgotten rediscoveries, Finders Keepers present this 1974 collaboration between French prog-pop star Jacky Chalard (and his group, Dynastie Crisis) with science fiction writer/voice actor, Gilbert Deflez. This album is like a psychedelic radio play, setting incredible French rock music backdrops against spoken passages. As tends to be the case with the best FInders Keepers releases, listening to Je Suis Vivant, Mais J'ai Peur is a transportive experience, taking you to a corner of the musical world you probably never knew even existed, and even if you don't understand the French well enough to keep up with what's going on, the band's soundtrack and the atmospheric sound designs that line the album give you ample cause to investigate this. Expect some great vintage pop songs and instrumental workouts nestled among the narrative pieces too - recommended. - boomkat

more french psychique face melters for the brahs who live in the atx & spend their nights at spiderhouse. fucking jazzed we get to hang out soon dude.

parents just don't understand.

even more obscure french outsider psych weirdo vibes. jean-pierre massiera's turn radio on is a fucking gem, & if you haven't checked this out before this will blow yr mind.

i am yr singer.

Recorded during the same sessions as Gainsbourg's highly acclaimed masterpiece Melody Nelson it follows in a similar avant-garde rock-opera vein. L'Enfant Assasin Des Mouches (The Child Fly-Killer) is a supernatural tale written by Gainsbourg depicting the journey of the young child travelling through a nightmarish "Fly Kingdom". Vannier narrates the story with sparse music concrete sounds coupled with choirs, funky beats, cowbells, wah-wah guitars and ethnic strings. Comparisons could be made with some of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats material and Alain Goraguer's creepy Le Planet Sauvge. - amazon.com

to continue the ball rolling with more weirdo french psych shit from the sixties. this record is essential, with some really memorable guitar lines soaring out of nothingness & receding into the murky depths.

holy fuck!

L'un des disques les plus rares et les plus étranges que la France ait produite. De la pop psychédélique quelque peu freakbeat avec de superbes effets sonores et guitares fuzz! Des paroles poétiques, complexes et surréalistes. - http://requiempouruntwister.frenchboard.com

how is tonight the first time i'm hearing this masterpiece? this is some really jammy french outsider psych rock from the sixties that's heavy on the weirdo vibes.

my apologies to all...

for the lack of posts, i have been without the internet for the last week. as a make up gift, i offer one of my favorites from the hippest cat since rilke.

the whitest of elephants.

one of my absolute favorites from this cat. just grab it because ya know y'all want it.

young rivers.

OCTAVO plays an evocative instrumental rock, highlighted by sharply contrasting sounds, revealing a new path following in the footsteps of CAPTAIN BEEFHEART and ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN. Please note that two members of the latter band appear here: Guigou CHENEVIER and Chris CHANET. Guitar player Guy SAPIN formerly belonged to ENCORE + GRANDE. "Des Pieds Et Des Mains" has been recorded in 1991, then reissued six years later on the Gazul label. Let's also note that "Thème D'Orphée" has been created in October 1990 for the Sam SHEPARD's theatre play "Fool For Love", directed by Philippe GARIN. Did you miss the original version? Don't miss that one ! - amazon

not a whole lot of info floating around about these french cats. released in 91', this reminds me much more of a load meets a gravity record than beefheart, predating the white belt skronk of the late nineties. it also reminds me a little of the first curtains record... actually, this could be a long lost greg saunier album. anyway, this is really fantastic & should be heard by everyone.

sailing to byzantium.

world renowned actor & dreamboat yves montand makes a beautiful homage to jacques prévert through interpreting his poems into emotionally gripping chansons. if you dig brel, then this will be yr jam.

religious photographs.

probably one of my favorite gainsbourg albums, if not my favorite. real solid the entire way through, more in line with traditional sg. i have everything pre 74 from this cat, so if anyone is interested, i'll post more. i know that everyone is familiar with this dude, but sometimes there are albums that are hidden gems in the treasure chest that not everyone might know.

quiet village on the seine.

my favorite frenchman making an exotica album. pretty fucking legit if you ask me. can't find this anywhere else in the wastelands, so get it while the going is good.