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Ailleurs by Blanc-Francard, Dominique (Record, 2021)
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Product Identifiers
Record LabelLiaa, Light in T.H.E. Attic
UPC0778578316112
eBay Product ID (ePID)4046081806
Product Key Features
Release Year2021
FormatRecord
GenreRock
ArtistBlanc-Francard, Dominique
Release TitleAilleurs
Dimensions
Item Height0.16 in
Item Weight0.64 lb
Item Length12.35 in
Item Width12.03 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Voyage 1.2 Mirabelle 1.3 Il Est Fou 1.4 Ah! Que C'est Bon 1.5 Jeudi Je T'aime 1.6 Ailleurs 1.7 Icare 1.8 Ballade Extra-Terrestre 1.9 Arrête de Rêver 1.10 Laissez Ce Reveil
Number of Discs1
NotesDominique Blanc-Francard's "Ailleurs" is trippy and weird... and yet... The songs are catchy and the album rocks out. Fuzzy guitar, chunky drums, weird effects, a thick mix of layers of sound - all tasty ingredients. Pink Floyd meets T-Rex? It's a terrific recipe, which surely must describe other albums? Even so, we can't think of another album that sounds quite like "Ailleurs." Without realizing it, you've probably already listened to Dominique Blanc-Francard's work - as a sound engineer. DBF (as his intimate friends call him), worked from 1970 to 1973 at the mythical Chateau d'Hérouville studio under the leadership of Michel Magne, the legendary composer of soundtracks such as Les Tontons Flingueurs, Fantômas, and Angélique. The studio was the famous "Honky Château' of Elton John, a place where Dominique Blanc-Francard participated in recordings by Pink Floyd, David Bowie, T. Rex, Elton John, and Cat Stevens Pink Floyd. You can also find DBF's involvement on records by Magma, Cœur Magique, Gong, Catharsis, Ergo Sum, Zoo, Markusfeld, Axis and the compilation "Puissance 13+2" (Power 13 + 2), recently reissued in all it's glory by one of your favorite labels (we hope), Lion Productions. Here, DBF was able to collaborate with famous producers such as Paul Samwell-Smith, Gus Dudgeon, and Tony Visconti. Since then, DBF has worked with all the French artistic upper-crust: Jacques Dutronc, Françoise Hardy, Jane Birkin and others. But in 1972, it was Pink Floyd and King Crimson and Led Zeppelin who were on DBF's mind. DBF: "In April 1972, at the time we recorded this album, French pop was stuck between Claude François, Joe Dassin, Sheila and Mike Bran - in other words, music with very little creativity. I was 28 already and wanted to show what I could do." Pink Floyd was a big influence on this LP... as well as King Crimson and Led Zeppelin. 'I remember the tremendous shock I had when I first heard King Crimson's '20th Century Schizoid Man,' with it's distorted voices. When I listened to the Crimson album, I saw on it's cover that it was recorded in four days. I thought, 'there's no reason not to be able to do the same.'" With 'Ailleurs' released in 1972 on Riviera, a subdivision of Barclay, DBF offered to a world that quite frankly wasn't looking for or expecting it, a wonderful LP - an album as unclassifiable as it is enjoyable (it is both). The Barclay promotions department was thrilled and asked DBF to perform on television. He had no wish to sing in front of people. He called it a day as a performer, just like that.
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