En Studio Avec Alain Bashung

These radioactive sessions, for the most part unpublished, discovered forty years after their recording. In 1981, after more than fifteen years of artistic impasses, discographic false roads and commercial ravines - Alain Bashung, who began in 1966, has just landed two hits in quick succession as improbable as they are delightful. The era is one of change, of 'singing tomorrows', and its allure promises crazy tomorrows. Alain Bashung, could have capitalized on this hard-won success, however, he took another course. He caught the eye of the Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, and composed the music for his play, to experiment with his band. The use of drum machines and a synthesizer, the stripped down sound dressed in oblique guitars, this constituted the perfect soundtrack of the time. We therefore discover here a music resolutely free of any format. More than a simple testimony of a group in construction and a singer in search. It is about a crucial transitional stage that was missing from his fascinating puzzle that is Bashung's discography. An artist already 'reckless' who does not hesitate, in a kamikaze way, to free himself from all the rules.

1: Strip Now
2: Bistouri Scalpel
3: Imbecile
4: Procession
5: Strip Now
6: Le Reve
7: Cause I Want You
8: Sophie
9: Rock Be Me
10: The Hebrides
11: I Don't Know Why

Number of Discs: 1

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