LP ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN Live At The Rock In Opposition 1978 (Re) RPC 012 - SEALED

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LP ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN (ETRON FOU LE LOUBLAN)

Live At The Rock In Opposition (RIO) Festival 1978 - New London Theatre, 12th March 1978

Country of release: France, 2015

Original recorded: 1978

Label: Replica

Catalogue number: RPC 012

Barcode: 3426300098740

Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Ja/Yes

 Condition Record: MINT

Condition Cover: MINT

  LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!

(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)

Tracks Side 1:

1. P.O.I. (Pourrissement Des Organes Intérieurs) (9:47)

2. Sololo Brigida (4:53)

3. Nave De Bilande (2:54)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Le Fleuve Et Le Manteau (11:14)

2. Face À L'extravagante Montée Des Ascenseurs, Nous Resterons Fidèles à Notre Calme Détermination (7:02)

3. Percutant Reportage Au Pays Des Fées (1:13)

Rock in Opposition or RIO was a movement representing a collective of progressive bands in the late 1970s united in their opposition to the music industry that refused to recognise their music. It was initiated by English avant-rock group Henry Cow in March 1978 when they invited four mainland European groups to come to London and perform in a festival called "Rock in Opposition".
Practically ignored in their own country, Henry Cow spent most of their last five years touring mainland Europe. There they encountered many innovative groups who were virtually unknown outside their own countries. What Henry Cow had in common with these groups was that record companies were not interested in their music. (Henry Cow's contract with Virgin Records was cancelled when Virgin found that they were not making money for them.)

Henry Cow decided to expose a few of these European groups to British audiences and organised, with the help of a £1000 grant from the British Arts Council, a festival in London they called "Rock in Opposition" with the slogan: "The music the record companies don't want you to hear". The event took place on 12 March 1978 at the New London Theatre with the following groups performing:

Henry Cow (England)
Stormy Six (Italy)
Samla Mammas Manna (Sweden)
Univers Zero (Belgium)
Etron Fou Leloublan (France)

While "Rock in Opposition" was never intended to be a formal organisation, the festival did generate "a lot of press around the world". This prompted the five bands to discuss future plans and in December 1978 they met at Sunrise Studio in Kirchberg, Switzerland to reconstitute Rock in Opposition as a collective. By this time Henry Cow no longer existed as a group, but as RIO's prime mover its former members still actively participated.

RIO's primary aim was to represent and promote its members. It was decided that membership should remain closed and small, although new members would be welcome provided they (i) adhered to "musical excellence" (as evaluated by the collective); (ii) worked actively "outside the music business"; and (iii) had a "social commitment to Rock". Using these criteria, three new members were elected:

Art Zoyd (France)
Art Bears (England, made up of former Henry Cow members)
Aksak Maboul (Belgium)

A second RIO festival, organised by Stormy Six, took place between 26 April and 1 May 1979 at al Teatro dell'Elfo in Milan, Italy where all seven groups performed, the original four (minus Henry Cow) plus the three new groups. During the festival, the RIO members met formally again to discuss the way forward. However, despite some constructive discussion, disagreements arose between the groups regarding RIO's role and matters were left unresolved. Two further RIO festivals took place in Sweden and Belgium, but no new meetings, and by the end of 1979, RIO as an organisation had "quietly slipped away".(en.wikipedia.org)

ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN are one of the more important offshoots of the RIO movement. This French quartet originated in the mid-70's with bassist-vocalist Ferdinand Richard, saxophonist Chris Charnet, drummer Guigou Chenevier and vocalist Eulalie Ruynat. Over the course of five albums, no less than four sax players had gone through EFL's revolving doors. In 1985, Richard, Chenevier and female vocalist Jo Thirion who played keyboards and brass on a previous album, decided to go on as a three-piece set and recorded what was to be the band's final album.

All of EFL's albums are so off-the-wall their music is almost impossible to describe: pulsating staccato snaps of drum, bass, sax, keyboards, with vocals vicariously woven into odd, complex musical structures - all this performed with amazing precision. Recorded on a shoestring budget, their first two albums suffer from a poor production; however, the raw energy and irreverent humour of their third, the live "En public aux États-Unis d'Amérique" (79), truly shine and highly compensate for such a flaw. The relatively more accessible "Les Poumons Gonflés" (82) and "Les Sillons de la Terre" (84) are a bit more structured, featuring less free-form improvisations. But it is with "Face aux Éléments Déchaînés" (1985) that the band truly reaches their high point: a minimalistic, coolly conceived and sparsely orchestrated album, yet bubbling with high energy and emotion. ( )

Most highly recommended to fans of HENRY COW, AKSAK MABOUL and SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA or for the adventurous listener seeking a real challenge. (progarchives.com)

Francis Grand - Saxophone, Voice
Ferdinand Richard - Bass, Voice
Guigou Chenevier - Drums, Voice

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