POP ELECTRONIQUE

Roger Roger (better known under the name Cecil Leuter in popular music) started his career in classical music, composing symphonic poems and different soundtracks for the french "authors cinema". The Cecil Leuter project gave to him the possibility to explore new musical territories, notably the opportunity to manipulate the new coming (Moog) analog synth technologies. The way he decided to investigate in new electronic sounds really differ from the conceptual / physical domains ever developped in electro-acoustic and "concrete" researches. Roger Roger doesn't perform or compose serious music, "Pop electronique" is completely "naive" and "spontaneous", using molecular effects and electronic loops to cover some sixties beat-psych-pop classics (first part of the album). The last titles are much more interesting in term of creation, delivering compositions enterely built around the Moog, painting futurist like soundscapes with weird sound effects and a great battery of electronic patterns, minimal signals, drum programs (Kraftwerk before time). The general atmosphere tends to be so kitschy after a first listening...however step by step the album reveals some curiosities that are exuberant and amazingly new. Not a standard but an important musical document for those who want to explore the genealogy of (non scientific) electronic music.