Jacky Chalard Je Sus Vivant Mais Gilbert Deflez LP Finders Keepers Rare sealed
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Artist : Jacky Chalard Title : Je Sus Vivant Mais J'ai Peur De Gilbert Deflez Label : Finders Keepers Cat Number : FKR034LP
New / unplayed in shrink with sticker, rare and deleted gatefold lp from Finders Keepers Records.
Album Notes: Surrealist SCI-FI psych concept album combining the leading bastions of the French No-No rock scene with the Parisian cosmic-art cognoscenti. The lost Dynastie Crisis album comprising heavy metronomic prog and space age kosmiche sensibilities. “Imagine Melody Nelson taking a trip to La Planete Sauvage with a synth, a drum kit and some herbal French cigarettes.” The name Gilbert Deflez is “ungoogleable”. Even with the help of Google’s own translation facility and armed with as many French rock encyclopedias as you can carry you'll be hard pushed to find any cross references to Gilbert Deflez and French psychedelic pop music. After a few blind alley detours via online judo forums and French bookshops you are left surrounded by a cast of an ex-radio presenters, a Karate teacher, a science fiction author, a painter and a literary ecologist... Not a guitarist or funky drummer in sight. Of course most online record collectors would at this stage abort mission without knowing that if you combine all the above personalities you have in fact found the right guy. For the lucky contestant fortunate enough to be stood in a record shop holding an original copy of ‘Je suis vivant, mais j’ai peur’‘ you might eventually find some answers in the small print. Hidden below an assemblage of school yearbook style portrait shots of ex-radio DJs and unknown actors and storytellers (that would suggest to many that you have found a spoken word album) you’ll eventually find shots of four guys in headphones that look like musicians. If you share your record reading skills with a deep knowledge of Parisian prog pop and French rock then the 6pt text names J. Chalard, J. Mercier, P. Lhomet and M. Engel might ring some bells. With absolutely no indication on the records glossy gatefold exterior you are actually holding a rare chunk of French pop history – you’ve just found a secret psychedelic science fictional cosmic concept album by one of the leading bands of the No-No generation. You might as well tell the man behind the counter to take all of the aforementioned buzz words write them on a sticker and plonk it on the front of this album, because this time they are all relevant and genuine. Then tell him to take another pen and write “mega rare ugoogleable missing album by Dyanstie Crisis” Otherwise keep schtumm because you've just struck vinyl gold. Like most forward thinking albums of the era ‘Je suis vivant, mais j’ai peur’ was too progressive for its 1974 release, and for an album designed to sound like it was made 25 years in the future it was quite clearly ahead of its time by design. Perhaps a reissue in 1999 might have bought the album up to date but given an extra decade to hibernate, a lot like the story’s leading protagonist, maybe the characters of ‘Je suis vivant, mais j’ai peur’ can finally be unleashed on planet Earth to inspect how our musical tastes have developed. I wonder how he will react to the apocalypse? Track List: 1. L’agonie (instrumental) 2. L’Agonie 3. L’Interrogatoire 4. Interligne 1 5. La Collecte Des Coeurs 6. Interligne 2 7. Le Perroquet 8. Si Je T’Offrais Une Branche D’Amour (La Mandragore) 9. Les Scandales 10. Itnerligne 3 11. Pollution 12. Interligne 4 13. Apres L’Apocalypse
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