ZNR – Barricade 3
ZNR – Barricade 3
ZNR – Barricade 3

ZNR – Barricade 3

Regular price £45.00 Sale

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