Zeuhl 5

User123abc wrote: ... Also... Has anyone here heard of Pascal Duffard? Searching the whole of www.progarchives.com gives a whopping result of 1 mention as him being considered for the joke category of protozeuhlrelated. That seems like a shame, and I kind of want to spread the word a little bit here. I'm not one to praise obscure music just because it's obscure and enigmatic, *cough*LesRallizesDenudes*cough* and in fact I've generally found that obscure music might be good, but pretty much never amazingly great. But I just found Duffard's one and only album, Dieu est fou, and, uh... it's amazingly great. Or rather, it's great in that subtle way that Kohntarkosz is, where at first you think it's pure sh*t, but then you're drawn back to it, and suddenly realize it's kind of a masterpiece. I wouldn't really call it zeuhl, at least not under the same criteria that gets other bands labeled as zeuhl. There's a bit of genre melding going on here, with modern classical music and zeuhl (which I happen to think are extremely close genres to begin with), as well as some pretty intense RIO, and the French chanson tradition. If anything, it's closest to modern classical. By the way, there's quite a few Magma alumni playing on it. I don't want to hype it up too much, but I'll say that it has this contrast of static harmony and radical shifts in musical style, that gives it an impressionistic feel not too distant from 1970's Magma, along with the French new wave in cinema (I'm not going to explain that further, just thought I'd throw it out there). PnF might have some info if you're interested.

^^^ you remember those two killer live tracks which Cleo sent us on the unreleased Zeuhl compilation? I'm pretty sure this would be those tracks. Well that's what I though anyway. Some of my favourite Eider material (though a little rough on the edges).

p.s. seen two Godard films so far, Breathless and Masculine-Feminine, the latter of the two was captivating (I was quite taken with Chantal Goya ;) , loved it! 

 

Yukorin wrote:   Hi BV, I'm aware of the 2 tracks but it doesn't constitute its own listing surely!?   Chantal Goya was a real cutie yep! Love 'Laisse-Moi' from Masculin Feminin. Not quite in the France Gall league but still smokin'

yeah it probably shouldn't be listed, especially since it is a bootleg

Wow, I see you what you mean, I found they have quite a similar demeanor! I will check out some of the other youtube clips soon.

I think I will restore this thread for my new found love for magma!

I'm listening to MDK right now!

Holy crap dude

Well, if you want me to be honest, I got MDK in a very unorthodox way if you ctch my drift.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Kobaia, I much prefer MDK, Kohntarkosz, Wurdah Itah, K.A., Udu Wudu, Attahk, and 1001 Degrees.  

My next big purchase will be EVERY SINGLE magma studio album (except merci) and then I will get a bunch of live ones