BIO
1
… READ MORE >
Listen & Buy
-
Cecil Leuter
Pop Electroniique
VAD019
Radical and veritable manifesto, “Pop Electronique” is an excessively cult record that the English enviously wish they could claim as their own. A piece of extreme and atypical instrumental madness with an alien edge – brainchild of the fabulous Cecil Leuter. Behind this enigmatic pseudo, borrowed from his grandmother, actually lies Roger Roger, über-prolific French composer of several hundred records for TV, theatre and radio and doted with an immediately recognisable style that mixes classicism with the avant-garde. He quickly foresaw the revolutionary potential of new emerging technologies through time spent at the ORTF. His music would never be the same again. As of the end of the 60s, he would throw himself into musical experimentations, combining prehistoric beat boxes with the intense use of synths, and began to niftily mix acoustic, electric and electronic music. “Pop Electronique” is the perfect, successful culmination of his off the beaten track explorations. A crazed record composed of a super groovy A side, bringing together strong jerks and Dadaist moog deflagrations, and a much more minimal, strictly electronic B side. Situated somewhere between Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier’s “Messe pour le Temps Présent” and Jean-Jacques Perrey’s “Moog Indigo,” Pop Electronique can be classed as one of those pioneering and magical records which, at the end of the sixties, dared savagely mix pop’s grooves and rhythms with the futuristic electronic sounds of the first synthesisers.
-
