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Le classique de 1972 réédité pour la première fois! Incluant «Monsieur L’Indien» et «Mama Vagina».
Lancé en 1972, LAISSEZ-NOUS VOUS EMBRASSER OÙ VOUS AVEZ MAL est un des disques les plus flyés jamais enregistrés au Québec… Ce qui ne l’a pas empêché de tourner à la radio, grâce au succès de l’hypnotique MONSIEUR L’INDIEN – qui sera reprise bien des années plus tard par le duo techno-alternatif French B.
«NOUS», c’est le tandem PÉLOQUIN/SAUVAGEAU. CLAUDE PÉLOQUIN, poète provocateur. JEAN SAUVAGEAU, pionnier de la musique éléctronique au Québec.
Ensemble, ils se sont éclatés pendant les délirantes sixties, dans toutes sortes de happenings artistiques. Jusqu’à ce disque éclectique, avant-gardiste, indescriptible, apothéose de leur collaboration.
C’était après les yéyé et avant Beau Dommage. C’était le «grand trou noir de la chanson québécoise». Et cet ovni est arrivé. Avec des tounes capotées qui parlent de révolution (MONSIEUR EMILIANO) d’exploitation (MONSIEUR L’INDIEN) de vasectomie (STERILIZATION), ou tout simplement de pipicacapoil (MAMA VAGINA). Avec ce gars qui rit, qui crie, qui parle en langues, qui décapsule ses bières dans le micro. Avec cette musique éléctronique éclatée, visuelle, complètement originale. Un mur du son qui va de l’ambient au psyché synthétique, de la chorale dopée au western décrissé.
Originally released in 1972, LAISSEZ-NOUS VOUS EMBRASSER OÙ VOUS AVEZ MAL is one of the most original records ever made in Quebec. Though avant-garde, it still managed to garner radio support and wide public attention thanks to the trance-like track "Monsieur L'Indien".
The "Us" in Let us kiss you where it hurts is CLAUDE PÉLOQUIN, controversial poet, and JEAN SAUVAGEAU, electronic music pioneer. Together after memorable trips and artistic happenings throughout the 60's, they came up with this eccentric avant-garde masterpiece. With topics ranging from revolution (Monsieur Emiliano), to exploitation (Monsieur L'Indien), vasectomy (Sterilization) or even scatology (Mama Vagina), the record exploded onto the local scene during the dark ages of Quebec Pop Music (something very similar to what's happening now).
Claude Péloquin, the vocalist, can be heard laughing, screaming, babbling into the mike as he "cracks open a brew" overtop a cocktail of explosive and highly original electronic music. A wall of sound shifting from synthetic psychedelic ambience, doped out choir to fucked up western.
Techno spoken word? Electroclash? Experimental Rock? Pretty far from the hippie stuff you'd expect for the times!
Masterpiece from the Québec-based duo of controversial poet CLAUDE PÉLOQUIN and electronic music pioneer JEAN SAUVAGEAU. An avant-garde classic featuring Péloquin's "out" vocals over Sauvage's soundscapes, ambient passages, and experimental pop sounds. Strange, explosive, original, and satisfying. When it was originally released, this record was 30 years ahead of its time. Laissez-nous vous embrasser ou ça fait mal is one of the most original records ever made in Québec. Though avant-garde, it still managed to garner radio support and wide public attention thanks to the trance-like track 'Monsieur L'Indien'. The 'Us' in Let us kiss you where it hurts is Claude Peloquin, controversial poet, And Jean Sauvageau, a Québec electronic music pioneer. Together after memorable trips and artistic happenings throughout the 60's, they came up with this eccentric avant-garde masterpiece. With topics ranging from revolution ('Monsieur Emiliano'), to exploitation ('Monsieur L'Indien'), vasectomy ('Sterilization') or even scatology ('Mama Vagina'), the record exploded onto the local scene during the dark ages of Québec Pop Music (something very similar to what's happening now). Claude Peloquin, the vocalist, can be heard laughing, screaming, babbling into the mike as he 'cracks open a brew' overtop a cocktail of explosive and highly original electronic music. A wall of sound shifting from synthetic psychedelic ambience, doped out choir to fucked up western. Techno spoken word? Electroclash? Experimental Rock? Pretty far from the hippie stuff you'd expect for the times." This is pure exploratory music, without regards to a particular audience, with poetic ramblings in a variety of languages (primarily French of course) over the top of some incredibly inventive free electronic rock (plenty of fuzz, analog keys, gorgeous Moog solos, etc…). Some of the atmospheres even recall the original Krautrock angst of “Schwingungen” for example. Strap yourself in as this one goes nowhere and everywhere at the same time.
Jean Sauvageau: synthétiseur; participation des regroupements Listarlet, Théâtre du Bonhomme sept-Heures et des violoneux Philippe Gagnon et Dominique Tremblay, entre autres
Arrangements: Jean Sauvageau
Pochette et livret - Conception et réalisation graphique: Asparagus; photos: Ian Black, archives de Jean Sauvageau, Robert Nadon (La Presse)
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