Psyché France Volume 3

This is a Record Store Day 2017 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 22nd April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 29th April.

Including 12 tracks, this third volume of the Psyche France collection is a new tribute to the mavericks and masterminds of the 1960’s and 70’s French music scene. Back then, brave artistic directors would sign leftfield acts in order to rival the British Kings of progressive rock and the new wave of US psychedelia. In this collection, you will discover a few curiosities such as the oriental sounds of Mon Chameau by the Masters, a band featuring drummer René Joly and whose members were all named ‘sretsam’ (‘masters’ in reverse) and the ethereal Wendy by Slovenia-born Rado Testen. The obscure Cavalier des Vagues by Patrick Roche (from the La valise de rêve album) and modern troubadour Philippe Farré’s Les aiguilles du temps embody the poetry of these innocent years along with a true gem: L’air que je Chante, a French-language version of David Bowie Starman by Papillon, a former bass player for Triangle, also featured in this LP with Bungalow. Fans of the rock / free-jazz crossover will also enjoy the rare Komintern B-side Elle était belle and La petite différence by Groucho Marxist Jacques Filh, the author of the infamous Wraaaach!. Sophisticated pop and psychedelic fans will also have the opportunity to listen to the works of four avant-garde sonic wizards : Guy Skornik with the hard to find La Route, the beautiful La Dame Nue by Michel Zacha, Jean-Pierre Castelain’s La Petite Auto and Igor Wakhévitch. In 1977, Wakhévitch was already twenty years ahead of its time in the electronic music world. Listen to Rituel de Guerre des Esprits de la Terre and shiver !