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Trumpeter Jac Berrocal's 80's underground avant-garde band Catalogue with drummer Gilbert Artman (Lard Free, Urban Sax) and electric guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros were known for their merging of experimental and boundary pushing forms of improvised jazz, punk, and rock (Think Etron Fou or This Heat); these early recordings by Jean-Marc Foussat find the band at their most assertively eclectic.
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Gilbert Artman-drums
Jac Berrocal-trumpet mouthpiece, voice
Jean-Francois Pauvros-electric guitar
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Label: Fou Records
Catalog ID: FR-CD 64
Squidco Product Code: 34865
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: France
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded by Jean-Marc Foussat.
"At the beginning of the 80s, guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros and trumpeter Jac Berrocal invented the trio Catalogue, responsible for a rather provocative crazy rock with its saturated voices and decadent lyrics... We remember "Khomeini Twist" from the 1982 album "Penetration". After Jean-Pierre Arnoux's brief appearance, Gilbert Artman sat behind the drums for three explosive vinyls which were to mark their era to the point of still resonating today. Sound recordist Jean-Marc Foussat, a long-time friend of the guitarist, was never far away with his control machines. This is how these twenty new minutes have just been published, on his label Fou, completely in line with the deconstructivism of the Fluxus tribe.
Indeed, the guitar tears the silence with a disconcerting frankness, shearing the atmosphere with one of those categorical riffs of which Jean-Francois holds the secret. We therefore quickly understand why this recording, about which we were given little information, is called "Assassins"! The intervention of Gilbert Artman, who hammers his drums with the conviction of an Apache sorcerer, contributes to the earthly anchoring of this unstoppable rock despite rebounds flexible enough to evoke the jungle style of swing orchestras. The obstinacy of the two friends, however, leaves no doubt about the compulsive binary of this rhythm when a breath occurs which matches it exactly. Jac Berrocal has just joined the ceremony, his trumpet left in the cloakroom, and whistles between his teeth before his voice escapes his lips to immediately slip into the side of a new wave perverted by filters and the echo of systems pernicious. From then on, nothing is going right! The choruses skid along the rhythm, the strikes dislocate and disrupt time, a hesitant silence summons gravity and the voice itself drifts between the divergent themes of the children's nursery rhyme and the military march.
We will have understood: if the objective was to move the focal lengths and prevent us from sleeping in circles, the trio achieved it perfectly. This will continue like this for more than twenty minutes, alternating without apparent logic the rhythmic pounding, the dazzling guitars, the indefinite screams and the terror of the void as it sometimes appears beyond a mess dense enough to obscure the future immediate. Like a ghost train, we will ride the anguish with loud cries of fear and joy, transforming our worst fears into pure adrenaline, and rarely, undoubtedly, will we have felt so alive."-Joel Pagier, in Review ans Correction 140
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Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Gilbert Artman Gilbert Artman is a French drummer, bass clarinetist and synthesist, known best for the band Lard Free that bridged jazz and rock forms, and the group Urban Sax. He was also a member of Jac Berrocal's band Catalogue, and groups Komintern and Clearlight. ^ Hide Bio for Gilbert Artman • Show Bio for Jac Berrocal Jacques "Jac" Berrocal (born 22 October 1946, Saint-Jean d'Angély) is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson. Berrocal has appeared in several films. ^ Hide Bio for Jac Berrocal • Show Bio for Jean-Francois Pauvros "Jean-François Pauvros is a French musician, electric guitarist and improviser born on 19 October 1947 1 in Hautmont in the North. He is the brother of Rémi Pauvros. He was a professor of French before living music, and began his career playing in balls. He was influenced by guitarists like Jimmy Page , Sonny Sharrock or Derek Bailey , and perhaps by Lightnin 'Hopkins and Charlie Christian. He participates in the Moebius group with Gaby Bizien and Philippe Deschepper. The French talent discoverer Jef Gilson recorded a first disc of Pauvros with Gaby Bizien in duet whose music is close to the British free music. He met Siegfried Kessler with whom he recorded Phoenix 14 in 1978. In 1978, at the Théâtre Mouffetard, he played with the singer Aude Cornillac and met the trumpeter Jac Berrocal, with whom he formed the Catalog group (where the drummer Gilbert Artman succeeded Jean-Pierre Arnoux ). Hathut Records releases the band's first album, Penetration. Jean-François Pauvros recorded in 1985 Le Grand Amour with guitarist Arto Lindsay (ex DNA ), vocalist Ted Milton from Blurt and drummer Terry Day ; In 1988 released Hamster Attack with drummer Julian Fenton , singer Mary Genis and saxophonists Evan Parker and Stan Sulzmann among others. His musical nomadism led him to Japan (with the poet Gozo Yoshimasu), in the United States (with Jonathan Kane and Ernie Brooks), in Chile (Ultima Round) or in Ethiopia. He played with David Holmes and Elliott Sharp , George Lewis , Jacques Thollot , Rhys Chatham and the 100 Guitars. With Mary Genis, he creates a group of Steel-drum which will also include the reggae trombonist Rico Rodriguez. He founds the Red Hammer groups with sound engineer Jean-Marc Foussat and drummer Makoto Sato , " the four daughters of industry " with Jean-François Binet, Jean-Marie Messa, Jean Nirouet, Ernie Brooks, Makoto Sato , Plays a duet with the harpist Hélène Breschand and in trio with Noël Akchoté and Jean-Marc Montera. He will participate in reading-performances with the poet Charles Pennequin and the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu. He also played and released records with Daunik Lazro , Roger Turner, Keiji Haino and Kawabata Makoto (founding member of the Acid Mothers Temple Group). He is the author of, among others, the music of Charles Najman's Royal Bonbon and Pitchipoi films, Karim Dridi's Gray-Blanc and La Mechanique des femmes by Jérôme de Missolz. He works regularly with filmmaker Guy Girard." ^ Hide Bio for Jean-Francois Pauvros
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Track Listing:
1. Morceau n1 6:28
2. Morceau n2 6:14
3. Morceau n3 8:37
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