Laurent Cokelaere - 1985 - Minigruel En Concert

Laurent Cokelaere

1985

Minigruel En Concert

01. Interlude N°1 1:00

02. A Night In Tunisia 5:36

03. Beach Break 6:45

04. L.L.P.M. 8:26

05. Prélude Capricciosa 0:46

06. T.N.T. 6:08

07. Interlude N°3 4:23

08. Kabyle 8:37

09. Biguine 2:31

Recorded at studio Charles Cros, maison de la culture d'Amiens, may 14, 1985 during the 4th "Temps du jazz" festival.

Bass, Arranged By – Laurent Cokelaere

Drums – Tony Rabeson

Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Memorymoog] – Robert Persi

Piano, Synthesizer – François Couturier

Soprano Saxophone – François Debricon, Pierre Mimran

Drums – Tony Rabeson

Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Memorymoog] – Robert Persi

Soprano Saxophone – François Debricon, Pierre Mimran

Synthesizer – François Couturier

The album starts with a solo by Cokelaere supposedly played on the bass--though it sounds to me like a guitar, I never knew a bass could be so soprano, then inauspiciously the band plays the ancient and thus rotting, decomposing standard Night in Tunisia, and by now everyone knows what I think of those godawful rejecta, inexplicably long-lasting despite being usually not even the best of melodies, played over and over like The Beatles' Yesterday on classic radio to the point of Guantanamo-generated insanity or rather CIA-sanctioned torture.

Inevitably this follow up successor to the previous Coke Tales masterpiece is not as good, being more commercial-oriented and fuzacky and live, to boot. Most appropriately for these times, a track called Beach Break (everything written by Cokelaere except the aforementioned Tunisia)