Label: SouffleContinu Records

大幅な拡張リイシュー版!!ボーカルアンサンブルとして70年代に始動、徐々に多くの楽器を導入し独自のアナーキーな混沌音楽を追求したフランスの伝説的アンダーグラウンド・グループCamizole。このバンドを前身とし、中心人物Dominique GrimaudがMonique Albaと共に結成したデュオプロジェクトVideo-Aventures。1981年にリリースした10インチ作[Musiques Pour Garcons Et Filles]が大量の未発表ボーナスを加えられ2LP再発!!Urban SaxのGilbert Artmanや異端ポップギタリストCyril Lefebvreら豪華メンツが演奏をサポート、聞いての通りノイズ、ニューウェーブ、ブルース、電子音楽、クラシックが妙な形で絡み合うオブスキュア・アルバム。8ページブックレット付き、このレーベルの特徴でもある帯付きのカッチリパッケージ。









Carefully remastered from the master tapes by Gilles Laujol
Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur
8 page booklet - Heavyweight 180 gr. LP

After the experience of Camizole, Dominique Grimaud began a new (and different) adventure in 1979 with Monique Alba.
Alongside Gilbert Artman (Urban Sax), Guigou Chenevier (Etron Fou
Leloublan), Jean-Pierre Grasset (Verto) and Cyril Lefebvre (Maajun), Vidéo-Aventures is composed of instrumentals capable of reconciliating Captain Beefheart, Henry Cow, Suicide and… John Barry.
All with the backing of Rock In Opposition, which enabled this Musiques pour Garçons et Filles to become known worldwide.

“Let us enter your hearts”: is the request made by Vidéo-Aventures, and how can we refuse?
Especially as Musiques pour garçons et filles, recorded by Dominique Grimaud and Monique Alba fifty years ago along with handpicked colleagues, is as fresh as ever.

1979: having improvised a huge amount (and how!) with Camizole, Grimaud tried his hand at composition and studio recording with Alba. Their first instrument was the AKS synthetiser, with which the duo recorded the instrumental tracks that were then offered to their comrades Guigou Chenevier (Etron Fou Leloublan), Gilbert Artman (Lard Free, Urban Sax), Jean-Pierre Grasset (Verto) and Cyril Lefebvre (Maajun).

At the end of the year, they all came into the studio for a week to record the eight tracks of this mini album that Chris Cutler would issue a few months later on his label, Recommended. In France it was the beginning of the agitation around Rock In Opposition, to such a point that Musiques pour Garçons et Filles would rise to second place in the NME independent Charts. And this is hardly surprising…

For these instrumental miniatures (here with the bonus of rare archives, some of which are previously unpublished) are uncontrollable: electronics augmented by lap-steel guitar (“Tina”),
cunning pop (“Zazou sur la piste”), mechanic sound (“Une vie moderne”), street piano (« French Kiss »), disturbing atmospheres (“La ballade des cardiaques”) or something like a TV theme tune capable of adjusting all the colours (“Telstar”)… With such promising ingredients, why stop Vidéo-Aventures
from entering?