For the few people lucky enough to have heard the entire album in the five decades since its release, the mythical Popera Cosmic LP is now considered to be France’s first dedicated psychedelic album and the shrouded blueprint for the hugely influential Gallic concept album phenomenon that followed, including Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire De Melody Nelson and Gérard Manset’s La Mort D’Orion.

Spearheaded by François Wertheimer (songwriter for Vangelis, Barbara and Byg Records), composed with future Jodorowsky soundtracker and genius all-rounder Guy Skornik and based on an embryonic concept co-conspired by a teenage Jean-Michel Jarre, this instantly-deleted 1969 recording is a true essential for any outernationalradicalised record collection.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Les Esclaves
• A2. Poursuite
• A3. Batman
• A4. Aurore Cosmic
• A5. L.S.D.
• A6. Quelle Audace
• A7. Philadelphie Story

• SIDE B
• B1. La Chanson Du Liévre De Mars
• B2. Etreinte Métronomique
• B3. Monsieur Noel
• B4. Filmore
• B5. Metropolitian
• B6. Ambiance
• B7. Indicatif