Gerard Manset

You know how sometimes people try so hard that they do not wish their early moments to be seen nor heard? Such is the case with Gérard Manset and his first recordings which, as it were, represent some of the best psychedelic chansons in existence and in league with such luminaries as Gainsbourg, Polnareff and Ferrer. Ill-conceived timing with the May 1968 student riots in Paris doomed the fate of his Animal on est Mal EP and self-titled LP, and both are now as rare as truffles. However, his popularity increased and so in 1971 the suits saw fit to re-release eleven of the twelve tracks from that earlier tumultuous era, plus a previously-unreleased composition, in a stark B&W sleeve, and that is what we present to you here.