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La preuve

by Poudingue

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mindsearrecords this record pushes every boundary it encounters and somehow manages to be both coherent and masterful.
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dr.kr all ten cuts are truly astonishing,
in ten different directions
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What a funny law 01:50
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J'ai mangé 04:20
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Rame de queue 03:31
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Je vous prie d'agréer 05:14
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Haru 04:14
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L'escargot 02:05
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Les cimes 03:31
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Lady Wallup 03:30
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So Much 06:11
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rock, experimental, punk, French, song, - Manège 03:41
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about

La preuve is an après-guard action. Most of the people who inspired it are dead or retired. Old teenagers flog their former loves. They bear witness to a bygone era, but joyously embraced, digested and spat out. Everything was still possible. Or possible at last. Psychedelia opened the doors of perception. Romanticism wasn't relegated to a dull formatting, a cheese without a rind. The group Poudingue, which started out ten years ago, has some delectable leftovers. These are the crumbs from purgatory.


The proof (la preuve, in French) is in the pudding (poudingue, in French) is an expression coined by Friedrich Engels meaning that the value, quality or truth of something must be judged on the basis of direct experience or its results. The expression is a modification of an old saying that makes the meaning a little clearer: the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

credits

released November 17, 2023

Nicolas CHEDMAIL – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, trumpet, French horn, trombone, helicon, pipes, flute, siren, alto sax, harmonica, melodica, violin, cello, shahi baaja, sanza / texts 2 4 5 6 9 10 / music 1 to 10

Frédéric MAINÇON – guitar, vocals / texts 1 3 7 8 9 / music 3 4 7 8 9

Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ – synthesizer, sampler, effects, field recording, erhu, inanga, shahi baaja, waldteufel, vocals / music 1 3 4 5 9

Guest: Benjamin SANZ – drums



Étienne MINEUR – graphics, thanks to generative artificial intelligence, inspired by Pieter van der Heyden Big Fish eat Little Fish, an engraving modelled on a drawing by Bruegel the Elder, himself after Hieronymus Bosch.


Recording, mix, production – Jean-Jacques Birgé & Nicolas Chedmail

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Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané), sound designer & multimedia artist, writer & blogger. (Mediapart)... Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been one of the early synthesizer players in France in 1973, the initiator of the return of silent movies with music in 1976. ... more

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