Label: Recommended Records – RR^ seven Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: UK Released: 1981 Genre: Electronic Style: Abstract, Experimental
A typical dose of Hector Zazou magic on this early, uncatagorisable anti-pop masterpiece together with Joseph Racaille (ZNR - geddit!), originally released in cripplingly small quantities in 1976 via the Isadora label but here in its wonderfully screen printed 1981 Recommended Records reincarnation. Right occupying a place on the prestigious NWW list, Barricade 3 is a slippery, genre-swerving piece that clashes typical prog / avant-rock tropes with jazz influences, odd analogue electronics with a heavy helping of eccentric Satie-styled touches and an air of breezy European cafe culture mystique. Nebulas of idiosyncratic, abstract electronics and spontaneous piano études eventually coalesce into an actual songs - like the priceless electric guitar / synth hybrid ‘La Pointe De Tes Seins Est Comme Un Petale De Pavot’ or the stoned, dream-like rock lullaby ‘Solo Un Dia’ that carries us off and away on a cloud. It’s a record that gives something different each time, creating it’s own unique habitat much like Mark Hollander and Ask Maboul sprawling prime-number epic ‘Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine’, Nuno Cannavaro’s outlier ‘Plux Quba’ or the intrepid, unconventional styles of Leven Signs. A total gem.. (NM/NM - with insert)
Tracklist A1 Droumier Assai Per S'Amourousis D'Un Moustre - Prelude Aux Memoires D'Un Chien 0:48 A2 Droumier Assai Per S'Amourousis D'Un Moustre - Premiere Tentative 0:45 A3 Trop De Douceur Ou Les Trois Soeurs: 2e Soeur 0:38 A4 L'Armoire 1:37 A5 Le Grand Compositeur Vu De Dos - Boston Mexicain No.1 2:35 A6 Le Grand Compositeur Vu De Dos - Boston Mexicain No.2 0:04 A7 Le Grand Compositeur Vu De Dos - Boston Mexicain No.3 2:20 A8 La Pointe De Tes Seins Est Comme Un Petale De Pavot - 1e Movement 3:25 A9 La Pointe De Tes Seins Est Comme Un Petale De Pavot - 2e Movement0 A10 La Pointe De Tes Seins Est Comme Un Petale De Pavot - 3e Movement 3:40 A11 Solo Un Dia 2:45 A12 La Vieio Mostro: Part II 1:45 B1 Espelisoun D'Uno Ribambello D'Evenimen Espetaclous Valentin Bilot 1:15 B2 Armistice Couronne De Feullages 2:23 B3 Le Grand Compositeur Vu De Face 2:55 B4 Seynete 3:45 B5 Editioun Especialo D'Uno Grino De Jardin 5:35 B6 Annie La Telie 0:03 B7 Naive Descrption De La Formation 2:05 B8 Avril En Suede 1:30