Disc of the day
Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
From Sheffield, synth pop and funk to stick it to Thatcher. Currently being played live!
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Cocktail Mol6t8v
(Le Maquis, 2008)
The soixante-huitard sound of revolution.
I still remember the profound funk of disappointment that permeated my being on that dark night in the early '80s when I stayed up late to watch Godard's One Plus One. What did a 13-year-old boy possibly imagine a French avant-garde director would do with the Rolling Stones, student protest, ladies and machine guns? Certainly not the am-dram lecturing and endless band rehearsals I ended up sufferering through, in a futile desire for streetfighting, rock'n'roll action and brief nudity. Better at capturing the outsider's sense of Mai 68's chaos and excitement is this lunatic compilation from the French Le Maquis label which seeks to recreate the noise, blather, drugs, protest and rock'n'roll noise by simply sticking this next to this as snippets of this bleed in and out, as if we were listening to the most exciting pirate radio broadcast ever. It's a magic formula that would work even if the compilation confined itself to the vogue sounds of US and UK pop and rock; but it's when the cool home-grown sounds of Paris '68 - from the tortured chanson of Léo Ferré's les Anarchistes to the My G-G-Generation yeh-yeh pop of Jacqueline Taïeb's 7h Du Matin - go up against the crash and burn of detonating petrol bombs that Cocktail Mol6t8v really delivers. It's not a history lesson, nor is it an education, but Cocktail Mol6t8v is certainly damned exciting. See you at the barricades.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 05/02/2010
Further Listening
Léo Ferré - Il N'Y A Plus Rien (Barclay, 1973)
Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte Fontaine Est... Folle (Saravah, 1970)
Claude Nougaro - Une Soirée Avec... (Phillips, 1968)
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