BERNARD LUBAT live montreux LP 1972 avant nww et cetera

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Lubat, Loiss, Engel Group "Live at Montreux 72" LP issued by Les Disques Pierre Cardin (STEC 132) in France, 1972. Shaced LP sleeve with rounded corners. ****** Rec:ex / Cov:vg+++ ****** It not strange that Lubat, Loiss, Engel Group "Live in Montreux" LP was featured on the Nurse Eith Wound list of influences. The record is marked by tribal percussions and freak-psyche atmospheres reminding Don Bradshaw-Leather. The best track is surely the last of the LP, the suite titled “Mickey Schrœder’s dream”, a nightmare of synth sinister sonorities with ghostly vocals and electronically treated percussions. A short lived but shit-hot jazz rock unit, this trio have quite the auspicious pedigree. Drummer Bernard Lubat's been a longtime fixture on the French jazz scene, whose tangential ties to the zeuhl school (manifest here via early Magma guitarist Claude Engel's involvement). Former Omega Plus acid rock Engel was a founding member of Magma and is prominently featured on both their first album and their amazing Univeria Zekt project and would go on to play in Troc and participate in Jean-Claude Vannier's "L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches", while Eddy Louiss (here on Fender electric piano) was a an old hand in the jazz world, working as a former sideman to Stan Getz and Kenny Clarke, though perhaps most significantly in the Humair/Louiss/Ponty trio. Jazz and rock veterans join up for an underground freak session at Montreux, just the kind of happening that was all the rage in 1972. Shame that the jazz purists put this type of radical invention into an early grave, but from about 1969-1974 or so, Pandora's Box was opened for all to see, warts and all. Lubat, Loiss, Engel Group can be classified along with similarly minded collectives such as Wolfgang Dauner's Et Cetera, Fourth Way and Exmagma. This is highly inventive fusion, but not flashy or chops heavy. They're going for broke, and sometimes it's fun to hear creativeness being made up as they go along. And who knew that Pierre Cardin was so hip? The magic engendered by these three is palpable; the scope of this live session ranging from the furiously charged to the vaporously abstract. Not to be missed! ****** Cover with minimal wear (see photo) would be graded ex if it was not for 3 cm seam split on top. ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** 3 ebay auctions in 3 weeks. Next week (3rd week): sound art, fluxus, Cramps records, Milan Knizak, Terry Fox, Henning Christiansen… ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.