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Crève Mais L’ombre
French maverick Franck Vigroux has long been a favourite at TSP on account of his gloomy paranoid caste, his do-everything approach in the studio, and his penchant for churning out ugly, crunchy...
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Enfants Terribles
The album ÜTOPIYA? (SUB ROSA SR396) by French intellectual free-rocksters Oiseaux-Tempête is slowly growing on me, despite early spins where the veneer of “respectability” seemed to create barriers –...
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Acidum Oxalicum
Last heard from French avant-rock trio Tribraque in 2010, with their self-titled album which was simultaneously released on CD by the trAce label and as a lavish vinyl item from Bloc Thyristors and...
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Grottes Profondes
Here’s another Disques Bloc Thyristors vinyl release in a sturdy gatefold package, abiding to an all-black colour scheme with a moody and disturbing cover illustration by Mika Pusse and titles picked...
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Kiss Me Deadly
Herewith a round-up of a few Michel Henritzi related items and Junko too… Descent to the Sun (BAM BALAM BBLP 021) LP sees Michel Henritzi pit his lapsteel guitar against the electronic violin of a...
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Animal Machines
dDASH Ease-Up Jerk FRANCE TSUNAMI ADDICTION TACD09 (2014) As I see it, Ease-Up Jerk appears to be a more easily available version (to us mere mortals anyway), of the Hyperactive Jerk vinyl album,...
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Long Overdue Part 8
Very good record of lively sax-drums-electronic music from the French group Loup. Their The Opening (GAFFER RECORDS GR036) is very inventive and varied, showing multiple ways in which the combinations...
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The Armoury Show
Blast (or B.L.A.S.T.) are a French four-piece of contemporary jazzers led by the trumpeter Pierre Millet, who also composed all the music on Derrière Le Manège (PETIT LABEL PL051); I’m a trifle...
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We’re Not Dead Yet
Last noted Oiseaux-Tempête in 2015 with their second album ÜTOPIYA?…this French art-rock band eventually won me over through the sheer persistence of their music, even though I maintain they’re still...
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Fissile From France
Happy to hear from Astatine, a Parisian sound-art and music genius who may be Stéphane Recrosio and who has collaborated with Ogrob on a ten-incher of unusual proportions which we noted here. Astatine...
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