BERNARD VITET — La Guêpe

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Album · 1972

Tracklist

A1 Et Cetera 4:54
A2 Balle De Fusil (1) / Hyménoptère 9:40
A3 Trolley Gresilleur 7:15
B1 La Guêpe Et Le Fruit 9:42
B2 Toujours Fourrée Dans La Nectarothèque 6:24
B3 Balle De Fusil (2) 5:54

Line-up/Musicians

Piano – Bernard Vitet (track A1)
Piano – Beb Guérin (track B1)
Double Bass – Beb Guérin
Percussion, Vibes, Marimba, Saxophone [Alto] – Jean Guérin
Piano – François Tusques
Saxophone [Soprano, Baryton], Violin, Clarinet [Traverse] – Jouck Minor
Tape – Dominique Dalmasso
Trumpet, Marimba – Jean-Paul Rondepierre
Trumpet, Violin, French Horn, Piano, Vibes, Composed By – Bernard Vitet
Voice – Françoise Achard

About this release

Futura Records – SON 05 (France)

Recorded In Paris, December 71

Thanks to snobb for the addition and js for the updates

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Contrary to beautiful phrases, drenched in dangerous flavour with risky shots. The first breaking shot (ah suitable to call as a breaking one) "Et Cetera" is the navigator of Zeuhlish avantgarde mission for us listeners. Superior piano theatre can make this short story finer and more gracious. Anyway, this is only a prologue for a complete madness of life.

The following part "Balle De Fusil Pt. 1 / Hymenoptere" notifies us that the curtain of a trippy fantasia opens, along with aggressive and crazy string dances. As though we would get upon a pink Cadillac, sticky female voices and indescribable beautiful shout (or meaningless original language?) show us scape of psychedelic harmony. Sounds like her voices would get dressed with many pieces of instrumental soundscape ... no scatter nor distortion can be found, amazingly. We should be blown down just upon this moment at first. The next "Trolley Gresilleur" is another wall of sound, flooded with deep horns, an active xylophone, and freaky killa voices. Wonder why we get crazy so easily but no difficulty here. Yes because they get crazy completely, that's the reason, simply. On the other hand, enthusiasm we can get definitely via this craziness ... oh fascinating.

"La Guepe Et Le Fruit", a real avantgarde jazz dreamland, is percussive and funky tribal ceremony. The light-touched percussion is not deep nor rhythmical, but obscure power in it can push us into another dimension. Enough is enough, for colourful experiments in a magical stuff "Toujour Fourree Dans La Nectarotheque", regardless of their simple formation and musical construction. In the last "Balle De Fusil Pt. 2", our freakout spiritual uplift has got higher and higher. Let me say this "La Guepe" is an authentic collection and splendid pioneer of experimental jazz. Surely they drive us mad, through their enthusiasm. Recommended.

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