DIRTY FRENCH PSYCHEDELICS - selected by Dirty Sound System

Description

"A new musical trip offered by the Parisians of Dirty Sound System: the France of Pompidou and Giscard. A vanished world, largely unknown despite being idealized on albums by Air or Sébastien Tellier, whose ghosts are rediscovered here: from the great Christophe or Nino Ferrer to that astonishing 1975 Lavilliers from whom Gainsbourg might have taken a few cells to create his "Homme à tête de chou." Guillaume Sorge and Clovis Goux, the two pilots of this fantastic journey, have managed to alternate familiar names with barbarisms typical of the post-May '68 era (Cheval Fou's frantic gallop, Alain Kan's astonishing inventory), ultimately depicting a country different from that of our memories. A poetic, audacious, pioneering France, seeking to hear without hindrance, to delude and to stun itself. The France of De Roubaix, Karl Heinz Schäfer, Ilous and Decuyper, Fontaine and Vannier, Studio Ferber, and Motors records. The exact negative of Casimir's, Sardou's, and Raymond Barre's. In other words, a mirage."