Veritable trouble makers on the French music
scene at the end of the 60's, Daniel Beretta and Richard de
Bordeaux form the likeable duo that has produced a series
of cult EPs and 7 inches, beautifully bathed in pop and zesty
colours.
Experts in nonsensical and offbeat tracks, our two men see
their work as a liberating itching powder which they throw
with unconcealed glee at a French variety scene a bit too
serious for their liking.
The mini original soundtrack, richly coloured by the Temps
Fou is one of the most splendid incarnations, a unique concentration
of their inimitable style mixing caustic humour, enlightened
dandyism and joyful decadence.
If their stories cultivate derision with great class, their
finely honed texts, artfully sung in duo, are systematically
accompanied by daunting music with baroque perspectives and
vintage grooves that do the job wickedly well.
As men of taste, they appoint the unrivalled arrangements
of the great Christian Gaubert, the brilliant pop orchestrator
behind Francis Lai's best original soundtracks, who gives
his very all here. To prove it, these four tracks of bravado,
including cultissime jerk La Drogue, zenith of smoking groove
with illicit lyrics, which propel this rare EP into the pantheon
of the best packaged French pop.
A level of quality and madness which demands respect. |