#albert marcœur

[jt1674]

[zhanteimi]

This Heat / Albert Marcœur - This Heat / Albert Marcœur

UK / France, 1982, experimental rock / avant-prog

[halas1]

At Home #10 with David Lemoine playlist:

Ursula Bogner "2 Ton" from Recordings 1969-1988 (Faitiche)

BrutPop "Sans titre,jour 5" from Belfort (BrutPop) www.brutpop.bandcamp.com/album/belfort

BrutPop "Un bouquet de violettes" from Back to the Roots (BrutPop) www.brutpop.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-roots

Henri Chopin "Hoppa Bock" from Text-Sound Compositions : A Stockholm Festival (Fylkingen Records)

BrutPop "Michel,Michel et Bernard" from Back to the Roots (BrutPop) www.brutpop.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-roots

Reynols "Gobia W W" from Minexico Emanations 1993-2018 (Pica Disk)

BrutPop "Allumer le feu" from Fou de toi (BrutPop) www.brutpop.bandcamp.com/album/fou-de-toi

Albert Marcœur "Que d'eau" from m,a,r, et cœur comme cœur (F.R.P Music)

BrutPop "Relaxation & bruit blanc 1" from Relax (BrutPop) www.brutpop.bandcamp.com/album/relax

[hontokana]

1976 - Albert Marcœur - Album à colorier

[ozkar-krapo]

THIS HEAT / Albert MARCŒUR

"Various Cassette Recordings, 1977-78 / Deux Lions au Soleil"

(split cassette. Tago Mago. 1982 / rec. 1977-78/1979) [GB/FR]

[les-proliferations-malignes]

Festival des Musiques Innovatrices / Saint-Etienne (1987-2014)

7ème Edition au Dragon Bleu et la Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, du 7 Au 15 Avril 1994 : Nûba - Bruniferd - Installation Frédéric Le Junter - Albert Marcœur (Sports & Percussions) - Yves Romain / Christine Wodrascka - Trio Denis Colin - Hugh Davies / Max Eastley - The 13th Tribe - Sumbur - Ne Zhdali

[ceramiclove]

This Heat / Albert Marcœur ‎– Untitled (1982)

[dustedmagazine]

Miriodor — Elements (Cuneiform)

Photo by Marc Tessier

What fun!! What a feast for the ears, a scintillatingly transparent trip through, around and atop the whims and whiles of that almost-always-too-serious labyrinth we might call neo-RIO! [that’s Rock in Opposition, for those, like your editor, not already clued in.] Canada’s Miriodor is certainly that but so much more than that, and if any further proof were needed, this tenth album brings it in technicolor!

It was more than tempting to begin this review with “This is far from grandparents’ prog!” It’s not quite true, or maybe it’s better to say that certain prog tributaries flow and pulse just below the surface of this constantly changing and endlessly amusing hipness. A bit of Gentle Giant’s rhythmic and contrapuntal “modernist” intrigue, some of Albert Marcœur’s or Matts/Morgan’s sonic zaniness, some Henry Cow or Samla Mammas Manna dissonance and more than a nod to the fabled Canterbury groups, even some raucousness a la early Present: all infuse this gorgeously recorded disc, but none of that really comes close to capturing Miriodor’s cheeky transparency. Dig into “Alambic”’s quasi-palindromic sonar-signal opening and closing to hear the kinds of wit brought to the table, but that, as the late and lamented Gilli Smyth has it, is only the beginning of the story. Aquatic synths spin a mystical narrative soon overtaken by stuttering pseudo-modernity in ricocheting  rhythmic timbre, as we also hear on the album’s final track. “Alambic” turns suddenly heavy and even dower until, at 2:05, the sun hockets its way through those clouds in a flurry of guitar and keys interplay. Speaking of keys, a bit of fun in felicitous retrograde begins at 3:55, opening the way to a vignette of airy groove with crystalline drumming to match. The sonar unifies and separates the various sections, but no amount of analysis does the fancy-tickling electronics any favors as they burble and warble along. 

The album is rife with those changes, as when the subterranean rumbles opening “Tour de Main” slam headlong into a sensually loping groove leading ultimately to some jerkily whole-tone goodness and a bit of bad-ass bottom-heavy orchestral exploration including some snarky industriality into the bargain. In fact, each sound the trio makes is a part of that counterpoint, a rapidly evolving syntax of phrases that may or may not coalesce into lines and paragraphs as they dance, drone or jingle their effortless way forward.

It could be the effortlessness that makes the subtle and not so subtle humor work. There is something so facile about these compositions, so inevitable and so right at every unpredictable turn, even when an anachronistic bluesy guitar solo  kicks in or when bits of found sound make their presences felt rather than simply heard. The musicianship is second to none, and that fact just adds to the album’s categorical difficulties. As with their prog/RIO colleagues, Miriodor offers up music of narrative grace and often heart-stopping beauty that always seems to cock just a bit of a snook at its multivalent points of origin, and so much the better. Prog needs more of this sort of thing!

Marc Medwin

[florekunst]

Deux de mes photomontages pour le livre d'images de la compil DONT WORRY BE ANGRRY "Various Arghtists. 2" du label "! a N G R r !". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COFFRET Compilation : Quadruple EP 25cm 33rpm (VINYLES couleurs 110gr) + LIVRE images 60 pages. - Avec le son de: ALBERT MARCŒUR,  FANTAZIO et BENJAMIN COLIN { Monnaie de singe }, CHRISTINE SALEM | GUESS WHAT { Mondo Giallo }, WITCHES VALLEY, GOPHER WYBOROWA, DR SNUGGLE & MC JACQUELINE, UNLOGISTIC. - Les images de pochettes: PLONK & REPLONK, MATTHIEU MESSAGIER, Frank Loriou, FÉLIX, ÉRIC CADILLAC, ANGELA EHRHARD, DAVID SNUG, PHILIPPE URBAIN. - Et les images du livre: MARIE BOUSSEAU, Flore Kunst,  Loulou Picasso, MASTO,  Matthias Lehmann, SÉBASTIEN THOMAZO, POPAY, BENJAMIN COLIN, MÉLANIE TÖRÖK, LULU LARSEN, LES CHATS PELÉS, NINA CHILDRESS, CHARLIE CHINE,  Léo Quievreux,  Anne van der Linden, Baldo Ortas-Peretti, NORMA { Myth'of the rainbow }, RÉMI, FANTAZIO,  Pakito Bolino, IVAN BRUN, EMY ROJAS, GASPARD LE QUINIOU, DENIS GRRR et DAMIEN DAUFRESNE. Disponible sur: http://florekunst.tictail.com/product/coffret-compilation-dont-worry-be-angrry-various-arghtists-2

OU en VENTE-DIRECTE sur le stand de Monsieur Macario Infos: aNGRRykULTURRa@gmail.com O U via CD1D: http://cd1d.com/fr/album/Various-Arghtists-2

[druddigon]

Albert Marcœur ‎– Celui Où Y'A Joseph (1983)

[ohdeereohmy]

This is hands down one of the greatest blues recordings I’ve ever heard. It incorporates microtones, an odd meter that drags the melody along like a car with its engine giving out. 

And despite all this, it’s so catchy. Unbelievably catchy and hard-hitting. And whoever made the decision to pan the whistle-sound to the left (whether it be producer/engineer/the musicians) was a genius.

[feregjarat]

dance dance dance fun fun fun

[ozkar-krapo]

Albert MARCŒUR

"Celui où y'a Joseph"

(LP. Le Chant Du Monde. 1983) [FR]

[les-proliferations-malignes]

Festival des Musiques Innovatrices / Saint-Etienne (1987-2014)

16ème édition du 27 Mai au 21 Juin 2005 : B R Oad Way - Evelyn Petrova - Mephista - Nikos Veliotis - Donald Miller - Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Ensemble - Alexandre Bellenger / Utah Kawasaki / Jean-Philippe Gross - Chevreuil - Philippe Cam - John Tilbury Plays Morton Feldman - Tim Barnes - Katsura Yamauchi - Simon Dijoud - John Butcher / Axel Dörner / Xavier Charles - Sophie Agnel / Olivier Benoit - Michael Vorfeld - Super Meilleur - Membres - Tadahiko Yokogawa / Akira Sotoyama - Albert Marcœur - Patrick Auzier - Fogo - François David / Jérôme Montagne

ToTo n’aime pas la soupe / les concerts à Saint-Etienne en 2005 : Super Meilleur - Voé - Super Meilleur - Sklarska Poreba

[ozkar-krapo]

Booklet n°1267 from:

Albert MARCŒUR "Deux Lions au Soleil" / THIS HEAT with Mario BOYER DIEKUUROH "Various Cassette Recordings 1977-78"

(split C35 cassette. Tago Mago. 1982 / rec. 1977-78/1979) [FR / GB-GH]

[ozkar-krapo]

Albert MARCŒUR

"Celui où y'a Joseph"

(LP. Le Chant Du Monde. 1983) [FR]