ROB JO STAR BAND LP+7"/1975 France/Electro Noise Velvet Underground-y Psych Rock
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ROB JO STAR BAND 's/t' LP+7" (France, Born Bad Records, Catalogue #BB051) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2013 Born Bad Records label vinyl edition of rare and bizarre French Electro-Noise/Velvet Underground-ish Rock album from the mysterious Rob Jo Star Band. One of the weirdest and greatest stoned rock albums ever from France (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter.) Can't recommend this one highly enough!
(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
LP version. Comes with a 7" featuring two unreleased tracks.
Official reissue of one of the weirdest records ever released in France in the early '70s. Stoned psychedelia. Garage punk under the influence of acid. Fantastic sci-fi spaced-out psych with astonishing lysergic fuzz distortions, drenched with crazy electronic noise effects. Though French underground rock in the early 1970s French underground certainly things to offer (mostly headaches and yawns) it was quite unexpected to stumble across a truly good album coming out of that scene. As often with those discoveries, one must thank the bootleg Cosa Nostra for this return from the grave. Beside a few collectors, Rob Jo Star Band managed to stay under the radar all these years. It all started in late 1972, in the Montpellier area in the south of France. Michel-Robert Sahuc aka Mick (bass) and Robert Castello aka Chris (guitar) had been friends since 1970, and after a couple of years in a non-formal band, they decided to move on one step further with new accomplices. In January 1973, they met Alain Poblador aka Penny. He was from Avignon, had been playing electric guitar for 12 years and had spent the '60s in local bands. None ever made a record. With Roger Vidal aka Cedric from Perpignan on drums, the original line-up of the RJSB was soon in place. After doing covers to get their act together, Penny and Mick, with occasional help from Chris, started writing original material in May 1973. Glam rock was happening and Bowie, Lou Reed, and The Velvet Underground were RJSB's muses. "Our musical philosophy was to go back to the roots of psychedelic rock, both soft and trash, simple yet with experimental leanings, finding inspiration in contemporary music, with intellectually-oriented lyrics." They chose to sing in English, but "in a very French way, as we were not trying to hide our French identity." In July 1973, they met Serge Soler aka Bryan, a sound and electronic engineer, who soon joined the quartet along with his "wave generators" (home-made prehistoric synths which were incorporated in a mix board). They now thought of themselves as something like The Velvets meets Pierre Henri, "trying to create some kind of a 'Messe pour un temps présent' for outsiders and junkies." The album came out in 1974 in a limited edition of 1,500 copies. The main influences included: Man Who Sold the World and Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, The New York Dolls, MC5 and The Stooges, Damo Suzuki, Agitation Free, Amon Düll II, Neu!, Hawkwind, Van Der Graaf Generator, and King Crimson. It wasn't easy for bands back then in France, even more for outsiders like RJSB. So it all came to an end. At least, they had recorded a few more songs as demos, including two in French, "La Cigale" and "Le Démon du rythme," that you'll find here as very special bonus tracks.
- Born Bad Recordings presents the only official reissue of '70s French space-psych band Rob Jo Star Band.
- Crazy, distorted fuzz-glam with warped electronic effects, heavily inspired by King Crimson, Hawkwind, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Van Der Graf Generator and more.
- "Mid-'70s Parisian proto-punk, spit out in churlish English amidst acres of fuzz and indiscriminate pulsars. This shit is wrong in so many perfect ways." --Aquarium Drunkard
- "...a singer whose French accent is so thick it's like your ears are filled with melted brie; a mix that is so sparse it's like the instruments were recorded in the colonies while the singer and synth player were on the Left Bank; and -- about that synth, it might give some of the most WTF-inducing Killed By Death classics a run for their money." --Shit-Fi
Tracks on this LP and 7" are as follows:
A1 I Call On One's Muse 3:29 A2 Rob Jo Star Band 3:39 A3 Lovings Machine 3:26 A4 Not The Crazy Man 4:10 A5 Story Dangerous 3:36 B1 Acid Revolution 4:50 B2 Black Sun 5:21 B3 Blood Flower 6:29 B4 Stone Away 4:07 C1 Le Démon Du Rythme 4:21 D1 La Cigale 3:32Shipping in US is $4.98./CANADA AIRMAIL is $20.98./MEXICO AIRMAIL is $23.98./OVERSEAS AIRMAIL is $24.98. (Shipping totals will be consolidated for multiple winning bids.)
Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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