Costes
La Vie Tue
Costes practices the scorched earth policy. Everything you can listen to after it is made paltry and lighter than air. This is also what we recognize important records. They are not necessarily fun but replace all the others. The killed life is a major disc, stupid and brilliant, regressive and decisive, a political record and in its way more ecumenical and unifying than all the speeches of national reconciliation. 500 numbered copies.
Pas Encore Mort
Costes has caused me so much trouble. Even today, 25 years after the last time I performed with him, I still have a hard time booking shows because he has not mellowed as I have and the venues are afraid, because of my past association with him, that there will be piss, shit, violence, genitalia, racial tension, cops, etc. Costes has caused himself so much trouble. He's been taken to court five times over his art, received countless death threats. When's the last time you can think of tha…
Plastic&Magic
Bisou records (Isabelle Magnon and Quentin Rollet) asked Jean-Louis Costes to do a book for children. This guy is mostly known for his extreme adult performances.Here he tells us the story of Plastic & Magic with drawings and a (free) CD of songs for… childrens !