Beautiful work from Hector Zazou, and one of those wonderfully hard to define records from the early days of the Crammed label – a company that always had a strong penchant for mixing up both musical and cultural modes in really unique ways!

The record is part of a series of imagined soundtracks – and while it might work that way, the sounds here also vary nicely between some of the minimalist experiments of post-punk groups like Soft Verdict and Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and some of the more globally-conscious material on Crammed – effortless shifts in instrumentation that moves between percussion, woodwinds, strings, and some more down to earth modes – all beautifully vivid, thanks to imaginative scoring by Hector Zazou!

PERSONNEL:

• Youen Leberre - (basson)
• Jean-Christophe Guelpa, Yseux Choix - (cello)
• Veronique Sevre - (clarinet)
• Fachad Soltani - (double bass)
• Xavier Le Masne - (flute)
• Olivier Guindon, Rafael Gimenez-Fauvety - (guitar)
• François Verly - (marimba, vibes)
• Magali Viallefond - (oboe)
• Lambert Boudier, Michel Risse - (percussion)
• Philippe Salicetti - (piano)
• Joaquim Vidal - (alto sax)
• Fred Wallich - (tenor & soprano sax)
• Manfred Lelalo - (synthesizer)
• Philippe Lapeyre - (trombone)
• Martine Schouman - (viola)
• Anne-Marie Altero - (violin)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Cine Citta: Gare Centrale
• A2. Denise A Venise
• A3. Sidi Bel Abbès
• A4. Vera C

• SIDE B
• B1. Pali Kao
• B2. Au Bout Du Monde
• B3. Motel Du Sud
• B4 Sous Les Bougainvilliers
• B5. Des Cocotiers