Label: Fou Records

大手&名レーベルからの再発オファーを断り続けて来た超傑作が遂に正規でCD化!!当店では氏が現行で主宰している"Fou Records"の諸作を紹介してきた、アルジェリア出身、フランスを拠点に活動し電子/実験/即興界の重要人物となったJean-Marc Foussat。1981年にデビューアルバムとして完成させた超名盤コンクレート[Abattage]がオフィシャルリイシュー!!お馴染みCreel Poneラインアップにも並んだ超名作であり、70年代半ばより録り溜めたVCS IIIシンセ、ピアノ、ギター、ボーカル、フィールドレコーディングの古い素材を、ゴリゴリに渦を巻くナイトメア・コラージュへと仕上げてしまった最高峰のカルトアルバム。是非。





Jean-Marc Foussat (b.1955) is a French guitar player, VCS synth player, label founder and recording engineer. He played with a band called Mandragore in the 1970s, as wel as collaborating with Jean-François Pauvros, Jac Berrocal, Roger Turner, Raymond Boni and Claude Parle. In the 1980s he worked as a recording engineer for Incus, Hat Hut, Po Torch, Rec Rec, Celluloid, etc. He founded Potlatch Records along Jacques Oger in 1997. On ‘Abattage’ (1983), he self released his studio experiments under his own Pyjama imprint. The tracks were apparently recorded between 1975 and 1981 and feature extensive use of field recordings from out of the window (see cover), as well as piano, guitar, VCS III synth and found vocals. The main instrument has to be the recording studio, though, with obsessive care in balance, transitions and dynamic, that is: much definition in the very low sounds and lots of details in the loudest sounds. #3 Ruines is a solo piano (played by Jean-François Ballèvre); #4 Petit Paysage is a street cleaner engine recording; #5 Petit Paysage is someone lighting a cigarette; #6 includes people laughing and coughing, electric guitar; and then monumental #7 starts as a jackhammer+piano duo, before morphing into a fierce VCS solo. Noise art of the highest caliber!