COUTEAU CALME (vinyl)

Description

In 1993, an UFO-like album was released by Legend Music under the mysterious name of CHEVAL FOU. Composed of tracks recorded in the 70s (apart from the cult track 'La fin de la vie' recorded especially for the occasion), this was the only sound recording we ever had of this radical and powerful French trio. Formed within a freak tribe that traveled from town to town preaching alternative thought and the power of nature, notably through the publication of the free press newspaper 'Le Pop', the trio Cheval Fou forged its power and originality over hundreds of concerts given during one lunar cycle (4 years). Their formula consisted of feverish psychedelic instrumentals with phenomenal energy, enhanced here and there by the words of wise people (and notably, those of Indian chiefs). In 2021, Cheval Fou returns with a new album soberly titled 'Couteau Calme'. It is still armed with his faithful Jaguar that guitarist Michel Peteau, as a lone rider, decided to resume the adventure. 'Couteau Calme' is a free instrumental epic, structured around the same questions as in the tribe's era. One enters it as one would enter a hitched caravan to set off on forgotten paths, to meet ghosts, wise people, Indian chiefs, and a whole gallery of characters come to bear witness to a vanished era. 10 inventive, primitive, and evocative tracks, oscillating between free pop and psychedelic rock, moving from the most peaceful plains to the most menacing undertows... during this musical journey, one will hear voices, all kinds of voices, of American Indians, old people, children, like subliminal messages emerging from nowhere.