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Jacques BERROCAL
“Catalogue”
“Catalogue released in 1979 in a limited edition on his own d’avantage label, catalogue, with its overt theatricality is every bit as wild as the previous paralleles. not really jazz, not rock, having nothing to do with contemporary music either, catalogue it’s a kind of sonic postcard which features not the group of the same name but instead numerous Berrocal associates including Potage (co-founder of the d’avantage label in 1976), Parle, Ferlet, Pauvros and recording engineer Daniel Deshays, plus many musicians from the french underground collective scene of the 1970s. first compact disc edition with the integral documentation. Graphics reproducing the special layout of the original lp record, with photo collages by Berrocal. Digipak first edition limited to 1000 copies.”
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Jacques BERROCAL
“Parallèles”
“Jacques Berrocal has been very active since the beginning of the 1970s. No one in France could mix jazz, improvisation, rock’n’roll, punk, no wave, spoken words and industrial music like him. He also had a central position in the creation of d’Avantage, a collective record label that issued some of the most particular sessions of the mid-late Seventies. At the same time he was working on never ending sessions for records that were never issued. Jac and his band were the Apostles of the non-urgency, enjoying recording in unusual situations, with no rules, improvising on undefined structures or using non-musical material mixed with ethnic instrumental solos. In 1976 d’Avantage issued a wonderful record LP titled Parallèles featuring, among the others, Bernard Vitet, Roger Ferlet, Pierre Bastien, Michel Potage, Daniel Deshays, with the intervention of Vince Taylor, the dark diamond of rock’n’roll who inspired David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. Just a couple of years later Berrocal collaborated with Steven Stapleton to create the first Nurse with Would record LP. Parallèles features very different styles; acoustic solo and duo for trombone and cornet as well as a large ensemble 25 minutes long piece dedicated to the futurist Russolo (again, two years later, Mr.Stapleton dedicated his first NWW record to the same italian artist). Also to mention are ’Post-Card’, recorded in a Pigsty in 1976, and the legendary ’Rock’n’roll Station’, a mini-concert for voice (Vince Taylor), double bass (Roger Ferlet) and bicycle (Jac Berrocal). The remastered CD also includes five previously unreleased tracks that were actually left out of the original record: ’Villa Povera Naturale’ (1972) is a short piece for pocket trumpet and various concrete elements; ’Occupè’ by Michel Potage is an excerpt taken from an LP that d’Avantage never issued; ’Shorten’ and ’Lisylis Pavillon’ are the first experiments using electronics and ’Cryptea IV’, taken from the sessions of the early Futura LP. Thirty years later Jacques Berrocal is still there, where nothing is waiting for him, totally outside the rules, out of fashion thus indémodable. A digipack CD edition including a folded insert with very nice original photos and scores.”
15,00€