Les années New Wave : 1978-1983

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Includes 2 CDs: 'Ocean Rain' by Echo and The Bunnymen and 'Marquee Moon' by Television Written by J-D Beauvallet / Preface by Jehnny Beth Partner: Les Inrocks From 1978 to 1983, in a blend of ideas and audacity that was truly astonishing, music experienced one of its most dizzying accelerations. The punk movement had leveled everything, and it was time to rebuild. Through a thousand internal movements, through a thousand tectonic shocks, the New Wave profoundly reshaped the landscape, opening wide highways to the future. Whether in denial of its time with electropop or the neo-romantics, whether confronting its gray era with Joy Division, whether living in its head with The Cure or in the streets with The Clash, it was as much a research laboratory as an unlimited party. Constantly in motion, it served as a bridge between radical avant-gardes and the revelers of disco or emerging hip-hop. Journalist J-D Beauvallet even went to live with it in Manchester in the early eighties. He recalls this in this personal book, which selects the must-have records, tirelessly compiles its playlists, recounts the important cities of this revolution, and meets the key artists or figures from those few years that remain influential.