European
Music from the continent where dudes wear weird bathing suits.
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Experiência - Passo a PassoI bought this LP in Lissabon some eight years ago. I’d never seen it before or since. Rock is not my expertise, but it seems to me this is a record that should be better known. I’m afraid it’s really rare though. They play folk-funk with some latin-rock influences, cool percussion in the mix. It […]
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Jean Yves Tourbin - GayanJean Yves Tourbin managed to peek out of his nest of gratuitous facial hair and somehow emerge with a tender eastern instrument augmented folk album. The grueling frenchness* of the vocals may repel most, but most tracks are filled with gorgeous finger picked guitars, harps, strings and flutes. For some reason this found its […]
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Anenzephalia - LyseFirst I’ll start off with a disclaimer: I borrowed this record from my girlfriend who used to be a big industrial fan. I am really not that knowledgable on industrial stuff at all, hell I don’t really like it even, but this one seemed too weird not to be shared. Thanks to […]
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Paulo de Carvalho - Não de Costas Mas de FrenteI’ve had this record for some years now and had filed it away with the mental note that it contained some nice songs. Now that I listen to it again I must say it’s really good. Side one suffers from some uneven tracks but side two is nice all the way. A quick internet search […]
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Corvina: S/TYet another pretty mediocre Hungarian rock record for your viewing/listening pleasure. I couldn’t help but get excited when I found this cause the cover is so foreign and cool, but it’s mostly sorta jaunty lightweight pop with some flutey sheep-herder moves. There are a couple pretty cool tracks that rock a bit harder though, so […]
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Les Charlots - L’allumeuse des vrais berberesWhat side you on?
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Odean Pope - Almost Like Me (Moers Music)Snap your fingers, slap your bass, blow your horn, Odean’s in the place. Recorded in 1982 in (cold war) West Germany. “Mwalimu” is the tune out of this eighty-ish sort of hard bop delivery.
Odean Pope - Mwalimu.mp3
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France Gall - Le Coeur Qui JazzeIn France, France Gall is what you call a superstar of “la variété” (i.e. pop music). This nice little jazz number dates from back in the days when she was working (or was made to work) with Serge Gainsbourg. Side 1 here was penned by Serge: “Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son” got France Gall […]
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Yves Klein - Conference A La Sorbonne 1959Edition limitee numero 448/500 no label but marked R.P.M. Paris in tiny print on the inner of the beautiful blue gatefold. Spoken word pressure direct from the sweat lodge of the Sorbonne June ‘59. The anthropologists who recorded this go uncredited but no doubt they will have canoed up the Boulevard St. Michel and […]
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L’Evangile Selon Saint Luc et les Récits de l’Enfance St. Matthieu St. LucA 1963 édition from the Office Catholique Du Disque with sleek cloth-bound good looks, chunky 24-page papyrus booklet insert and 5 discs all in superb condition despite coming from a dank junkshop corner amongst other stuff that was badly water-damaged. Imagine my delight when I open the box and see the fine print:
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Koncz Zsuzsa: SzerelemKnocz seems to have been a fairly popular gal in her native Hungary back in the day. Several lp’s, and among other useless things I could find in english about her was someone calling her “the Janis Joplin of Hungary”. Why Americans must impose their low-brow frame of references on everyone I’ll never know. I […]
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Illes: Illesek Es PofonokWhile poking around online looking for info in english on this group I came across something that said they were “The Beatles of Hungary!”… I have no idea how true this statement is, but it does remind me how vulnerable one is when trying to buy/get into foreign records. Cause yeah, these guys are not […]
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Canti Comunisti Italiani“Songs of the Italian Communists” - now there’s a title crying out for the pop charts. There was a little sequence of revolutionary songs released on 7″ singles by the Italian label ‘i dischi del sole’ in the early sixties, of which this is one. Quite nicely packaged in a fold-out sleeve (would have been […]
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Bergendy: HétfőMy introduction to Hungarian rock came by way of a large stack of lp’s being dumped at a nearby thrift shop recently - so you’ll have to excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject. Anyhow, this is definitely one of my favorites of the bunch. On this later 70’s(?) double album the large, horn-driven […]
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Rushnychok: Vol.1Odd record by this Russian (via Canada) group. As you can probably imagine a good portion of this is pretty Euro folk-dancing-core, but there are a couple of somewhat westernized rock influenced tracks that are sort of interesting.
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Les Bardanes - Vers l’homme, Gospel Night N°4Right people, like with my last post, if you want the sound clip you have to patiently plug into my webpage and hear mix 1 at http://dr.lloyd.free.fr/ I have this propensity I can’t shake for sonic and sensual overload and I totally recognise that one of my biggest faults is overuse of the tape echo function on […]
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Pax Quartet - MerveillesChristian records of interest are not that common in France, but this one has something special. This is the second Pax Quartet LP to be reviewed on Waxidermy and just like the first one, this LP has one vocal and one instrumental side but Pop/Folk oriented instead of Jazz.
The “Folk” tracks are not really good […]
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Alojz Bouda - Synthesizer SoundThis is a totally common record from Slovakia that has pretty bad synthesizer pop tunes. One track is insane however. It’s the track that’s called Random and according to the sleeve, here Alojz explores the possibilities of the synthesizer playing on it’s own. I wish the synthesizer had played on it’s own for the entire […]
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Caterina Casselli - Bagnata Come un PulcinoThe entrepreneurial biography of Caterina Caselli cannot go disgiunta from her artistic biography.
The same passion that moves her, the same energy, the same suffering participant, the same stubborn engagement in the search of the best in a field, that one of contemporary popular music, where if it is true that fatturato it is bello not […]
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The Lemon Dips - Who’s Gonna BuyThe best library LP i found for 1 euro, released on De wolfe in the end of the 60s, this one is not the instrumental library LP you can often find on KPM or De Wolfe. This one is a record by an unknown british garage-psych band who can be compared with “The Deviants”. Side […]