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Lasry-Baschet - 1950/60s's French experimental music (and Broadcast influence)

Started by Brundle-Fly, January 04, 2014, 08:10:35 PM

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Brundle-Fly



My main Xmas present this year was Structures Sonores No4 on vinyl! Waheey, thanks you Ms Geena Davis.

Extremely rare and something I have been after for most of my adult life.  Most of the UK's knowledge of Lasry-Baschet is the track, 'Menege' used on the 1970s ITV schools programme Picturebox.

Yes, we all thought the theme tune was creepy, Stuart Maconie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o_NTPtW8NU

A recording of Menege was initially why I so desired this holy grail but eventually the waltz appeared as a hidden track on one of those The Trip compilations about twelve years ago and my quest for Menege was over. 

For me, it was a comparison in a music paper review of Broadcast's Work Or Non Work EP collection to Lasry-Baschet in 1997 that finally revealed the musicians behind the mysterious Picturebox theme. For some years, I searched for more information about their music with little success. It is only very recently that the great Trunk Records http://www.trunkrecords.com have reissued two of the Lasry-Baschet  Structure Sonores Eps  that we can enjoy their bizarre music again. Well worth the wait.

I was also intrigued to learn this Christmas that fifty years ago they were originally going to provide the theme tune to Doctor Who!

So, anyone who loves 1950s French exotica, experimental music, bizarre instruments, Broadcast, the 'Lab etc should have a 'crochet du boucher'

http://vimeo.com/70627228

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLasry%2BBaschet%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=fr&u=http://www.baschet.org/structures/lesfreresbaschet.php&usg=ALkJrhilxX8_I6adC6yC2CO-BNPwIIdEFg

Phil_A

Excellent. I already have a hooky download of No. 4, but wouldn't mind having a legit copy.

Only problem I have with Trunk is the quality of their mastering can be variable, or at least it was in the case of the two Vernon Elliot albums I got from them. That and the fact they reissued the incredibly rare "Abstractions Of The Industrial North" as a limited edition only, so of course it sold out quickly and is now impossible to get hold of again. I mean, 500 copies, for fuck's sake.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Phil_A on January 04, 2014, 09:56:25 PM
Excellent. I already have a hooky download of No. 4, but wouldn't mind having a legit copy.

Only problem I have with Trunk is the quality of their mastering can be variable, or at least it was in the case of the two Vernon Elliot albums I got from them. That and the fact they reissued the incredibly rare "Abstractions Of The Industrial North" as a limited edition only, so of course it sold out quickly and is now impossible to get hold of again. I mean, 500 copies, for fuck's sake.

Are we talking vinyl copies here, Phil?  Rare as hen's teeth, Trunk on vinyl, even Basil K Trunk CD reissues*




*there is a sentence I never thought I would type.

Phil_A

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on January 04, 2014, 10:06:04 PM
Are we talking vinyl copies here, Phil?  Rare as hen's teeth, Trunk on vinyl, even Basil K Trunk CD reissues*




*there is a sentence I never thought I would type.

Yeah, it was vinyl only, limited to 500 copies. So by the time I knew about it, it was long gone.

Actually I've just noticed they have "Primitive London" for just a few quid on CD, might have to grab that.

Brundle-Fly

Primitive London is fantastic and somehow pre-empts refrains from Bernard Hermann's Taxi Driver score by an entire decade.