Warren Hatter
@frenchrocksampler.bsky.social
Brighton, East Sussex. I write about the French equivalent of Krautrock. 25 @ResonanceFM shows: bit.ly/FRSradio Concrete Science Fiction Riot forthcoming on Strange Attractor
Warren Hatter revels in the long overdue reissue of a "perfectly formed" 1976 album of dystopian French electronica, which should now be heard by a much bigger audience than it was 50 years ago Reissue of the Week: Mar-Vista’s Visions Of Sodal Ye @bornbadrecords.bsky.social buff.ly/omeTpq7
The Beat-Club has just casually dropped some live footage of Can - unseen since 1972 👇
Can - Halleluhwah (1971)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
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Listen here, I suggest
Mar-Vista - Visions of Sodal Ye (1976)
YouTube video by The Anti-Christ(gau)
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Warren Hatter@frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 5d agoI had the honour of reviewing Mar-Vista’s brilliant ‘Visions Of Sodal Ye’ for @thequietus.com to mark its reissue by @bornbadrecords.bsky.social
I had the honour of reviewing Mar-Vista’s brilliant ‘Visions Of Sodal Ye’ for @thequietus.com to mark its reissue by @bornbadrecords.bsky.social
Reissue of the Week: Mar-Vista’s Visions Of Sodal Ye | The Quietus
Warren Hatter revels in the reissue of a 'perfectly formed' LP of dystopian French electronica, which, 50 years on, deserves recognition.
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Not sure how @luketurner.bsky.social and @jahduran.bsky.social will feel about EasyJet keeping the ploughman’s dream alive but with crackers not bread
Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 3w agoIn July's pod @jahduran.bsky.social & I aren't discussing an LP, film or telly series, but a threatened cultural artefact dear to our hearts: the ploughman's lunch. Tune in as we discuss the ancient origins of a vernacular meal revived by post-war cheese suits: thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
A classic. And ‘Le Goudron’, one of the extra tracks not on the original album, is blinding youtu.be/aZt9qcQy51o
Le goudron
YouTube video by Brigitte Fontaine - Topic
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Observations of Deviance@obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 2w agoBrigitte Fontaine "Comme à La Radio" @wewantsounds.bsky.social "reissued featuring 11 bonus tracks... rare non-album singles, English-language takes, alternate versions and previously unreleased instrumental recordings showcasing" the Art Ensemble of Chicago www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/font...
Ha, I just came here to say that, so thanks for doing the legwork
@eighteen92.bsky.social · 2w agoIn the spirit of Anglo-American relations, Robbie Williams has just performed in the World Cup closing ceremony as Paulie from the Soprano’s.
Edgard Varèse! Olivier Messiaen! Eliane Radigue! Pierre Schaeffer! Pierre Henry! Jac Berrocal! Thierry Muller! Philippe Besombes! Jean-Louis Rizet! Jean-Hervé Peron! Christian Vander! Jean-Pierre Turmel! Yves Von Bontee! Your boys took a hell of a beating!
I was just reminded of this thanks to Le Guess Who announcing a Cabo Verde night at the festival this year (Utrecht, November) leguesswho.com/news/sounds-...
Sounds of Cabo Verde at Le Guess Who? 2026
A special program dedicated to the diversity of Cabo Verde music culture, its traditions and the Cabo Verdean diaspora in the Netherlands.
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jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy to see Cabo Verde holding off Spain at halftime
Every time I see this photo, I feel a sense of calm and wonder, but then I’ve never thought about the practicalities of wearing the robe
Bruce Gorrie@bsrg1.bsky.social · 4w agoChristian Vander, Magma founder, 1970. Smart/casual.
I feel as though Jakub Knera for @thequietus.com might have explained why I love the new Horse Lords album.
Society of the Spectacles: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! by Horse Lords | The Quietus
Baltimore avant-rock group propose a revolution in everyday life, reconstructing American vernacular traditions from the ground up
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Tagging @davidstubbs.bsky.social the author of Fear Of Music, who may have a view :-)
Jamie Hamilton@jihamilton.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo you think music is a bit of an outlier for this, though? I’d imagine Freeman et al wouldn’t be waxing lyrical about Jack Vettriano. It’s a long time since I read it, but the book “Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen” was a decent read about this.
Ha! Also me rn, about to go to the dentist for two fillings
Cal Cashin@calcash.in · 2mo agoMe, in the doctor’s waiting room, waiting for treatment on what I would describe as a 3/10 seriousness ailment: so glad I got to listen to the new Horse Lords album before I die
This was 41 minutes very well spent. The new Horse Lords is Horse Lordsier than ever, with added funk and ecstatic moments
I Heart Noise@iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · 2mo agoSad to learn that Areski died today. I only know his work through Brigitte - one collaboration that I’ve taken to is this song, superficially light but (I think) a conversation between two people hurtling to their deaths youtu.be/WcNWgDLBNVc
Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem - C'est normal
YouTube video by Chansons, Folklore et Variété
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Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 2mo agoNot many people outside of France have heard of Brigitte Fontaine. This is not pop, this is not jazz, this is not "avant-garde", this is a voice and an artist unlike any other. Recorded in 1969 with Areski Belkacem and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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Three months after the Prekop and Raffa album, another beautiful thing from Crash Symbols, this one ambient and smothering crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/lunation
Lunation, by Bára Hladík & PJS
2 track album
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Warren Hatter@frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 6mo agoEverything about this tape is beautiful crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/only-c.... By @rjraffa.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social on Crash Symbols out of West Virginia. The label is open to UK/EU distribution so raise your hand if you might be able to help.
Another little known French should-be classic, (1982) from the album Pénétration. Catalogue were Jac Berrocal, Gilbert Artman and J-F Pauvros. The most post-punk improv I know.
Catalogue - Khomeiny Twist
YouTube video by bonzoboydog
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One of the great almost-unknown 1970s French Underground sounds. 15 minutes of actor Bernard Verley intoning Rimbaud’s poem over a massive psych improvisation by Catharsis. Verley sounds completely transported by the band’s flight. 1972, since you ask
Bernard Verley & Catharsis - Rimbaud c'est Toi (1972) 04 - Mauvais sang-Voyelles
YouTube video by tiguissas
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daily.bandcamp.com/lists/french... Some cracking '70s French Underground albums chosen here by Jim Allen for @bandcamp.com
Après la Révolution: The Sound of the ’70s French Underground
The ’68 Paris student riots was the starting point for a new, confrontational era of music.
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I second this, by @hayleyscott.bsky.social. A blinding album by Brighton’s finest
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 4mo ago'The territory they cover is vast. Kosmische drift bleeds into Stockhausen abstraction; Tangerine Dream sequencers into Radiophonic static, bleeps and bloops that feel lifted from a forgotten BBC education programme.' Memorials - All Clouds Bring Not Rain buff.ly/kMClpwc
If there were such a thing as an Ambient summer smash, this would be it :-) By Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel on @projekt.bsky.social Records
Entering Elysium, by Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel
5 track album
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Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.
Read the obituary for artist Éliane Radigue, who occupies a chapter in the forthcoming Srange Attractor book 'Concrete Science Fiction Riot', written by the book's author Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social thequietus.com/news/remembe...
"Sounds Can Have Their Own Meaning": Remembering Éliane Radigue | The Quietus
Warren Hatter reflects on the life of an extraordinary, innovative artist, ignored for most of her life before being celebrated this century
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“Radigue homed in on the sound – looked within it. She was a true experimental artist” My piece for @thequietus.com remembering Éliane Radigue, who left us on Monday
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 5mo ago'In her final years Radigue pulled more people into her own deeply disciplined approach. While it’s tempting to highlight the unique aspects of each phase of her work, it all feels like it is, as she asserted, part of a continuity.' Remembering Éliane Radigue buff.ly/gevaoCH
Thanks for all the love for this, and thanks @thequietus.com for commissioning. Éliane was - and remains - such an inspiration.
The Quietus@thequietus.com · 5mo ago'Music recorded through the late 60s and 70s was released during the 2000s, and the extraordinary focus Radigue had maintained over the period of half a century became clear, revealing a sound world that few had previously had chance of hearing.' Remembering Éliane Radigue buff.ly/gevaoCH
