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LP released: Apr 27, 2015

Tracklisting:
Side 1
1. Nanook
2. The Overload
3. Panic In Bali
4. Rock 'n Roll Station
5. Where Flamingoes Fly
1. Kinder Lieder
2. Tsouking Chant
3. La Valse Des Lilas
4. Nanooks
5. Solaris
6. Ife L'ayo
7. Spain
8. Riga Centraal
JAC BERROCAL / DAVID FENECH / VINCENT EPPLAY
ANTIGRAVITY
Label: BLACKEST EVER BLACK
Cat No: BLACKESTLP011
Barcode: 5055869511056
Packaging: LP (100g)

Antigravity is a new trio album from legendary trumpeter Jac Berrocal and two fellow travellers in the French avant-garde, David

Fenech and Vincent Epplay. A lugubrious mise-en-sc ne in which ice-cold outlaw jazz meets musique concr te, DIY whimsy and

dubwise studio science, all watched over by the lost souls and hungry ghosts of rock 'n roll The Berrocal/Fenech/Epplay trio's first

album together, Antigravity is a richly imagined universe combining original compositions and d tourned standards. Berrocal revisits his

own signature piece 'Rock 'n Roll Station', which first appeared on his '77 LP Paralleles with chain-wielding, leather-clad wildman of

British rock 'n roll, Vince Taylor, singing the lead, and Berrocal on mic'd up bicycle; here, the Frenchman takes the vocal reins. A

barely recognisable interpretation of Talking Heads' 'The Overload' pushes beyond the bush of ghosts into a fourth world dread-zone

of stalking drum machine rhythms, humid electronics and jagged guitar phrasing, while 'Where Flamingos Fly' reroutes the Gil Evans

Orchestra's classic rendition through the seamiest back-streets of the 13th arrondissement; there, as on the trio's reading of 'Kinder

Lieder', the mood is romantic, but stark, isolationist: imagine Chet Baker falling through the glacial sound-world of early PiL or Scott

Walker's Climate of Hunter. Originals include the agitated Iberian psychedelia of 'Spain', and 'Panic In Bali', which begins in seemingly

trad-jazz fashion only to swell into a cacophony of a gurgling electronics and fevered 'Lonely Woman' quotations. 'Solaris' is a swirling,

suspenseful arabesque of whiplash guitars and Black Ark FX, Berrocal's trumpet hitting deep blue notes while his vocals are sliced and

diced and tossed into a yawning void of tape-delay - like Antigravity at large, the result is oblique, dissolving, forever out of

reach. Despite the chilly, sometimes austere mood of the album, it is, ultimately, a deeply human and welcoming work, with a

playfulness and sly humour pervading: see the anarchic cross-hatch of 'Ife Layo', or 'L'essai des Suintes ou le bal des Futaies',

Berrocal's poetic disquisition on the infinite variety of female genitalia. Mischief and misdirection are rife here, and fans of Officer!,

Henry Cow and the ReR axis will find much to chew on. Play, as we know, is a serious business. Put another way, and to quote

Berrocal entirely out of context, Antigravity is completely crazy, completely timeless, completely out. As its title suggests, the objective

is nothing less than lift-off, weightlessness, a total unshackling from earth. Sunglasses on, collar up, let's go.

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