File under: ExperimentalAvant-garde
The 1st by the duo of Hector Zazou & Joseph Racaille plus guests. Primitive electronics, reeds, electric & acoustic pianos, noise, songs, & the hovering spirit of Satie. Not as divine as Traite De Mechanique, but still an excellent and essential release. This disk features Hector Zazou playing predominantly electric piano and chromelodion (the tube-version precursor to the modern synthesizer), and partner Joseph Racaille on acoustic piano. Both share songwriting duties and vocals, the latter of which at times are so overdriven and messed-up that they create an ironic disparity to the seemingly Satie-like atmosphere...Barricades 3 has stood up to the test of time better than almost anything else. It remains as startling and mystifying as the day it was first released on vinyl in 1977...
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File under: ExperimentalAvant-garde
Cat. number: RéR ZNR1
Year: 1993
Notes:
Produced for 'Les disques du Rat et du Serpent Associés' and first released in France by Jean-Marc Bailleux and 'Isadora' in 1977.
Reissued in 1981 by Recommended Records as RR7, in a hand screened cover, with an initial limited edition including a new translation by Max Addison of Eric Satie's 'Memoirs of an Amnesiac' silkscreened with set of one-off woodcuts.
Recorded in January 1977 at the studio of Gilly Bell, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône)
Reworked in USA
Made in USA
European Distribution: RéR
US Distribution: Cuneiform
Brasil: RéR Brasil
Jewel case packaging with 8-page booklet
Track durations given on release are incorrect, those given here are taken from a CD player
