Brigitte Fontaine is a very enigmatic french singer, politically active who also writes book and has colaborated with Stereolab and Kim Gordon, among others.
I only have heard one of her records, Le Bonheur, and it was also with Areski. I was expecting it to be something closer to France Gall but it was more experimental, very influenced by what we would call today "world music" (Areski's family is from Algiers). Strange singing, almost percussive.
A friend who knows her records better than I do said that she did have a France Gall like phase in the early 70s. That record Brigitte Fontaine est... is supposed to be quite bubblegummy, but I tried to find it without much success.
I found a page about her here http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~kucklae/bfr_info.htm
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:46:14 -0700
From: "F. Cobalt" <fcobalt@lycos.com>
Subject: (exotica) hopkins/areski + fontaine
Re: Kenyon Hopkins. Duh, earlier when I said I wasn't thrilled about The Fugitive Kind soundtrack I was talking about The Strange One. My mind has been all over the place lately. I haven't even HEARD The Fugitive Kind. Sorry.
Re: Fontaine and Areski. From what I know about Brigitte Fontaine and Areski, he worked with her quite a bit from the beginning of her recording career. He's on a number of her early albums, and even pops up on her new one for a few songs. I could recommend her with or without his contribution, but together they really have a skill at that minimalist/eerie mood. I'm a big fan of the Comme a la Radio album, which she did with Areski and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It strikes a fair balance between eerie, detached, cold, warm, and intimate. It's nice to see her work getting reissued... though of you see the EP she did with Stereolab, run away quick. She sounds terrible, and so do they.
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 18:21:47 +0100
From: Michael Jemmeson <michael@moreover.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Computer Music" Michael McNabb
chuck wrote:
>
> Computer Music by Michael McNabb 1750 Arlh Records S-180
>
> This is one nice electronic ride! Michael Mcnabb has some
> fantastic shocking cuts on here! "Love in the Asylum" is a
> standout and appears to have been used in a play previously. This
> is direct to digital computer music from the early 1980s when I
> thought this kind of music was terrible like the band Synergy. Its
> good to see pure electronic music was still being made in the
> 1980s. Nice outer space cover too!
i've got one good album by Synergy, though: 'Computer Experiments vol 1'
or something - has a bright pink cover with a circuit board on, and is
ambient music made via random number computer program. one side in
particular is excellent. all their other records i've heard were
terrible except for the odd track here and there.
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:59:17 -0400
From: lousmith@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) synergy
Synergy is one guy - Larry Fast.
He has a lot to answer for in bringing electronics to pop music.
See http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B8aq4g44ttv1z~C for some of the details.
Lou
Michael Jemmeson <michael@moreover.com> wrote:
> i've got one good album by Synergy, though: 'Computer Experiments vol 1'
or something - has a bright pink cover with a circuit board on, and is
ambient music made via random number computer program. one side in
particular is excellent. all their other records i've heard were
terrible except for the odd track here and there.
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 18:22:31 -0700
From: bag@hubris.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) KAPU (Forbidden) by Milt Raskin
At 11:01 AM 10/1/01, Jonathan wrote:
>I have a question. I got really lucky and thrifted a mint (not a mark on
>it) copy of Les Baxter/Bas Sheva "the Passions" on 10" LP today, and its
>in this big thick box like there should be more stuff in it. but only the
>one record was in it. (BTW, the record was sealed in its own plastic bag
>inside the box). Was there a booklet
Jonathan,
Yes, there is supposed to be an 8 page booklet, ten inches square.
Cover page: red with two inch high white capital letters "The
Passions". The woman is in the bottom right (black on red).
page 2:
photo across the middle of the page. The photo is the center part of the
woman's face. Above the photo is a one inch red stripe angling down with
abstract line segments in black. Below the photo is a caption:
"A WOMAN'S PASSIONS... violent, anguished, poignant, ecstatic... are
eternally fascinating. Here Les Baxter expresses them in richly
orchestrated music, using as an instrument the remarkably sensitive voice
of Bas Sheva--a voice whose vivid colorations range from the gutteral snarl
of savagery to a delicate and lyric beauty."
page 3:
Black. The black abstract line segments turn red as they continue off this
page. The woman, as on the cover, is in a black and white photo on black
in the bottom right corner. In text are the descriptions of each of the
musical selections using a quote from either the Bible or Shakespeare:
