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"Re-vox Populi!" n°229 - 5 mars 2015
MUD (South West London)
single (RAK) '73
Hypnosis
Successfull UK Pop/Glam band. Mud was founded by singer Les Gray & drummer Dave Mount. They formed a band with bass player Ray Stiles and guitarist Rob Davis. Being discovered by producer Mickie Most during a gig, they were hooked up with the writer/producer tandem of that time: Chinn & Chapman. Hits followed very fast and until 1980 they were a multiselling band. In 1980, after declining success and a replacement for Les Gray, the band decides to quit. Les Gray died of a heart attack in 2004.
Un collectif de l'image : HIPGNOSIS PINK FLOYD (Londres)
« More »
(Columbia) '69
Ibiza bar
Bande originale du film « More » de Barbet Schroeder. Le film met en scène l'aventure d'un jeune Allemand qui découvre les plaisirs mais aussi l'enfer de la drogue grâce à une Américaine. Tourné en pleine période hippie, une bonne partie du film se déroule à Ibiza qui deviendra un lieu incontournable pour le mouvement hippie. L'album présente une grande variété de genres musicaux : des ballades acoustiques comme Cymbaline ou Green Is the Colour (titre sur lequel, Lindy, la femme de Nick Mason joue de la flûte), des instrumentaux improvisés comme "Up the Khyber", des thèmes psychédéliques dans "Dramatic Theme" et "Cirrus Minor" ou même du hard rock avec "The Nile Song", variante d'Ibiza Bar qui, contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait penser, est joué lors d'une scène du film qui se déroule dans un bar à Paris. GODS
(Hatfield, North West London)
« To Samuel a son »
(Columbia) '70
To Samuel a son
The original bandmembers included Mick Taylor (later with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones), Brian Glascock, and his brother John (later with JETHRO tull), future Uriah Heep keyboardist Ken Hensley, and Joe Konas. The GREATEST SHOW
ON EARTH (Londres)
« Horizons »
(Harvest) '70
Skylight man
Originally formed in 1968 by guitarist Garth Watt-Roy and his bass-playing brother Norman. Also featured in the original line-up were organist Mick Deacon, drummer Ron Prudence and three horn players, Dick Hanson, Tex Phillpotts and Ian Aitcheson. The band's first vocalist was black American Ozzie Lane but he returned to his native New Orleans a year later and was replaced by Colin Horton-Jennings, not only a strong gravel-voiced singer but also quite adept on the guitar, bongos and flute. The group's mixture of R&B soul, jazz and prog-rock brought them to the attention of EMI's progressive label Harvest Records, who signed the band and issued, in February 1970, the single, "Real Cool World"/"Again And Again" (HAR 5012) which, though not a hit in the UK, gave the band a medium-sized hit across Europe where they were also an in-demand live attraction. Both tracks featured on their March 1970 debut LP, "Horizons" (SHVL 769) which was housed in a distinctive sleeve designed by Hipgnosis and coincided with a Radio One session for Mike Harding on which they played three new songs: "Border Line", "Mountain Song" and "Time". A second session for Harding, in November 1970, featured "The Leader" and "Check Me Into Your Life", the latter of which has never officially been released. 
PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATER (Exeter, Devon)
« The Asmoto running band » (Dandelion) '71
The Asmoto running band
Formed at Exeter University in the late sixties (their name was apparently inspired by the head of the university), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre were more a multi-media enterprise than a rock group, appearing with dancers and lightshows. John Peel signed them to his Dandelion label and helped produce their albums. They also appeared regularly on his 'Top Gear' show. One of the main assets was lead vocalist, Vivienne McAuliffe, whose crystal clear voice helped make them a little special. Their music was innovative and imaginative with a strong folk influence and an air of mysticism. This is typified by "The Death Of Don Quixote" and "Third Sonnet to Sundry Notes of Music" on their second album. However, arguably their best track was "Pinky: A Mystery-Cycle", a melodramatic number with a thudding drumbeat, haunting lyrics and frequent changes of tempo
La pointe d'exotisme ILLES (Hongrie)
« Nehez as Ut »
(Qualiton) '68
Szerelen
Illés was founded in 1960, but did not gain wider popularity outside of students clubs until 1963. This was the time the Hungarian language programs of Radio Luxemburg, broadcast illegally to Hungary, started to influence Hungarian youth culture. They were the first wildly popular band of the "new" beat music. Their song Még fáj minden csók (Every kiss still hurts) caused quite a scandal in 1966 because of Levente Szörényi's "squeaking" singing style 
« One-shot band » :
UNITED STATES OF EXISTENCE
UNITED STATES OF EXISTENCE (Baltimore)
« United States of Existence »
(Bam Caruso) '86
Makin' my scene
Anything goes
Gone
CD « The collection » sur U.S. Fidelity Sounds inclut « Return to the psychedelic » (Battle of the Garages) (VOXX) et « Shadows of rainbows » paru sur « The Rebel Kind » (LOLITA) ainsi que ces 2 titres composant l'unique single du groupe en '84. "Gone", lui, sera repris sur un split single, opposé à « Madame Guillotine » de Paul Roland. Fuzz et orgue compressés d'où cette oppression clinique que l'on retrouve chez PLASTICLAND. Dennis Davison (chant) poursuit sa carrière avec JIGSAW SEEN (album en 2014 et backing-band d'une partie de la tournée U.S de Dave Davies). 
Nouveautés Jacco GARDNER
(Hoorn, Pays-Bas)
single '15
Find yourself
Extrait de son second album « Hypnophobia », à paraître début mai : Polyvinyl (US), Fulltime Hobby (UK) and Excelsior Recordings (Benelux) BALTHAZAR (Courtrai, Belgique) « Thin walls »
(P.I.A.S.) '15
Then what
Pour enregistrer son troisième album, le groupe a pour la première fois quitté ses terres flamandes, rejoignant la ville côtière de Brighton et le producteur Ben Hillier (Depeche Mode, The Horrors, Blur). Le résultat est à la hauteur de nos espérances et à l’image de ce groupe ô combien classe et talentueux, mêlant à la fois des morceaux très pop rappelant les ARCTIC MONKEYS , à des compositions plus mélancoliques. Les voix de ces cinq jeunes gens s’accordent à merveille, créant une atmosphère envoutante qui leur est propre. "Thin Walls" est sans conteste l’abum de la consécration. JEFF AIRSON DUNE (France)
« Full mono »
E.P. Autoproduit
Mes 13ors
Duo auteur de 4 albums autoproduits depuis 2007. Paroles en français rendu à dessein peu intelligible.
MY DRUNKEN HAZE (Grèce)
« My Drunken Haze »
(Inner Ear) '14
Girl who looks like a boy
The first side of the album carries echoes of the 60s through a lost summer of turbulent experiences, rock'n'roll, sexual liberation, hallucinations, destruction and self-destruction. The second side, darker musically and lyrically, refers to Nouvelle Vague cinema, building an atmosphere of surrealism and recounting an unfinished love story, distorted through the lens of a kaleidoscope. As demons hiding in the storm, the refrain of the album marks the path to purification.
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