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DENIER DU CULTE - Messe Around

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Impulsy Stetoskopu 045 Release Year: 2015 Note: great collection / compilation with rare material by this pretty unique French "Avantgarde / Industrial rock" band from the 80's feat. LT. CARAMEL, ALAIN BASSO and SYLVIE LOQUET (anyone remembers the awesome LA SONORITE JAUNE?), with extreme vocals, bass, violin, percussion, drums, electronics, think of a more noisy and desperate DDAA, LA STPO, or early ETANT DONNES, all very raw and low-fi; lim. 300 with DIY full colour booklet, in metal box Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info We are proud to present this compilation release from one of the most unique the industrial avant-garde of rock music acts from France in the 80s. Limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies double CD in metal boxes. "I must admit I know the name Denier Du Culte ever since much of the stuff was recorded that is now on their double CD, which is from 1981 to 1986, and I have been in contact with some of the members, but I never could figure out what kind of band they were. Now I know a bit more. Denier Du Culte was a trio of Lieutenant Caramel on drums, percussion, bass and vocals, Alain Basso on bass and violin and Sylvie Loquet on voice, bass, percussion and lyrics. Caramel and to a lesser extent Basso went to work with electronics in a more musique concrete-like vein, but as Denier Du Culte they worked as an improvisation trio and as such they were part the worldwide cassette movement, releasing a few works on cassette themselves and contributing to many compilations around the world. On the first CD we find a selection of their cassettes and on the second CD fifteen contributions. It's not a complete picture of everything this band has ever recorded, but it gives a nice over view. I must admit I didn't recognize anything from the ol' days - perhaps my mistake. We hear them move from the very rudimentary earliest pieces of shameful self-indulgence to more complex pieces in their later years. It's these pieces that showed the great strength this band had, when, armed with reel-to-reel machines or perhaps synthesizers to further alienate their rock approach. Some of these earliest moments sound perhaps a bit tedious, and devoid of any context one might scratch their head with this amount of rumble and chaos, but in the light of the time, the early 80s of freely re-organising rock music, post-punk, industrial music and such like. What I perhaps didn't realize back then, or not as much as I do now, Denier Du Culte was a great, unique band, which sounded very different from all the other noise boys. This is a most welcome re-issue of a band that is surely over-looked in a long time. Both of these releases are very limited so act quickly!" [FdW/Vital Weekly]