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Jacques THOLLOT’S INTRA MUSIQUE
“More Intra Musique”
Produced in collaboration with the legendary Jac Berrocal’s label d’Avantage, “More Intra Musique” is the second LP in alga marghen’s series dedicated to previously unreleased recording by the drummer and experimentalist Jacques Thollot. While the furious “Intra Musique” free jazz first LP was centered on a live recording with Michel Portal, Eddie Gaumont and Mimi Lorenzini at the Faculty of Law in Paris, on an evening in 1969, it is an unexpected Jacques Thollot that we encounter on this second LP, vivid and blazing even more than we already knew.Jacques Thollot was a major force in the French free jazz scene, collaborating with artists at the level of Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, Sonny Sharrock, Joachim Kühn as well as with French pioneers Jef Gilson and Barney Wilen. Starting from 1971 he released “Quand le son devient aigu, jeter la giraffe a la mer” or “Watch Devil Go” on Futura and Palm Records, or some of the most relevant and revolutionary sonic masterpieces in France.“More Intra Musique” is free improvisations of course, but also synthetic jitters, musique concrète and loop experiments, sketched pop songs, minimalist trances with African accents, or simply the promiscuity of a lullaby or the voice of a child posed like a bird in a Norman garden. These long lost visionary recordings featuring Eddie Gaumont on prepared piano and Jacques Thollot on drums, piano, prepared piano, synth and tapes are an absolute revelation which make us rethink everything we know about French free improvisation.Tape manipulation created as a potential background for a live set?Bursting rehearsal with Eddie Gaumont? Is the piano well prepared?Besides the stingy mention “Intra Musique” sticked on the reel, nothing is known of this recording. Who cares really? Let’s just play it loud!Edition of 350 copies.
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Jacques THOLLOT’S INTRA MUSIQUE
“Intra Musique”
There are records that stimulate curiosity to the extreme, records that make you want to dissolve yourself into the intense and beautiful surprise this music will bring. It is undeniable to the delighted ear that this exhumed document contains all the assets of the historical output, of the record that one would dream of waiting for long if one had known it existed.
This rough edit, done within urgency by Jacques Thollot, testifies of a unique experience: the concert of Intra Musique at the Faculty of Law in Paris, an uncertain evening of 1969. The devastating gab of the two acolytes Jacques Thollot and Eddie Gaumont made the concert take place, on the ploughed earth of May 68, in the same faculty where so much was discussed and thanks to the success of the previous concerts of the association of students that allowed the risk of hiring the thundering dream team.
Unique because there will never be another replica of what Jacques Thollot called "a movement”, involving Michel Portal (tenor sax), Mimi Lorenzini (guitar), the rare Daniel Laloux (tambour), Jacques Thollot (drums and tapes of recorded experiments, those that will build the skeleton of the magnificent “Quand le son devient aigu jeter la girafe à la mer” LP on Futura), and Eddie Gaumont (guitar / piano), the instigators of this journey. Captain Eddie Gaumont will capsize shortly after, sunk by a too intensely dark life; sad coda putting an end to the project.
Let us add the undeniable whirling of the mentors' and companions' spirits of Jacques Thollot, such Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, Bernard Vitet and Jean-François Jenny Clark, and we fail a little further at attempting to describe this succession of precious moments: that oblique spiritual-jazz, that other staggering ballad or that primitive fever of essential nervous flights, that almost psychedelic proto rock; alternations of radical free music to those magnificently classic, overwhelming achievements.
Jacques Thollot is not just one of the greatest abandoned jazz composers: he is the one who abandons himself to all its forms.
Edition of 350 copies in full-color gatefold sleeve, co-produced with Jac Berrocal historical d’Avantage label (whose catalogue includes Michel Potage “Occupé” LP, also co-produced with alga marghen).
This rough edit, done within urgency by Jacques Thollot, testifies of a unique experience: the concert of Intra Musique at the Faculty of Law in Paris, an uncertain evening of 1969. The devastating gab of the two acolytes Jacques Thollot and Eddie Gaumont made the concert take place, on the ploughed earth of May 68, in the same faculty where so much was discussed and thanks to the success of the previous concerts of the association of students that allowed the risk of hiring the thundering dream team.
Unique because there will never be another replica of what Jacques Thollot called "a movement”, involving Michel Portal (tenor sax), Mimi Lorenzini (guitar), the rare Daniel Laloux (tambour), Jacques Thollot (drums and tapes of recorded experiments, those that will build the skeleton of the magnificent “Quand le son devient aigu jeter la girafe à la mer” LP on Futura), and Eddie Gaumont (guitar / piano), the instigators of this journey. Captain Eddie Gaumont will capsize shortly after, sunk by a too intensely dark life; sad coda putting an end to the project.
Let us add the undeniable whirling of the mentors' and companions' spirits of Jacques Thollot, such Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, Bernard Vitet and Jean-François Jenny Clark, and we fail a little further at attempting to describe this succession of precious moments: that oblique spiritual-jazz, that other staggering ballad or that primitive fever of essential nervous flights, that almost psychedelic proto rock; alternations of radical free music to those magnificently classic, overwhelming achievements.
Jacques Thollot is not just one of the greatest abandoned jazz composers: he is the one who abandons himself to all its forms.
Edition of 350 copies in full-color gatefold sleeve, co-produced with Jac Berrocal historical d’Avantage label (whose catalogue includes Michel Potage “Occupé” LP, also co-produced with alga marghen).
23,00€