Brun & Berlioz - 1972 - Pop Organ & Percussion

Brun & Berlioz 

1972 

Pop Organ & Percussion

01. Jungle 4:00

02. Pauvre Carillon 2:46

03. Hungaria 3:55

04. Royaumont 6:35

05. Tarbouka Toccata 2:00

06. Cymbales De Gloire 5:30

07. Chant D'Espoir 4:30

08. Gouttes De Pluie 3:20

09. Cauchemar 4:00

10. Plongée 2:00

Organ – Michel Estellet-Brun

Percussion – Gérard Berlioz

Soprano Vocals – Jeanine Mere

The title of the album is clearly tongue-in-cheek, as this is a serious avant-garde work with organ, voice, drums and tuned percussion. Hard going if not into the academic side of music. Wouldn't be out of place on the more experimental Futura labels

A pretty extraordinary find, this French library duo presents an uncompromising behemoth of a sound, all organs and percussion as advertised on the sleeve, but you'd never crave for more instruments being included. Rather than playing it safe with melodic pop ditties a-la Jean-Jacques Perrey, Michel Estellet and Gerard Berlioz are obviously entering the upper echelons of human creativity with their mutant cobwebs of drones and oscillations - who would have thought a simple organ could sound as otherworldly as that? This truly defies categorization, drawing slight reminiscences only to the Futura label classics (such as Jean Guerin album) and maybe to a couple of notorious 1970s outsiders such as Don Bradshaw Leather or Sohrab Keyaniyan.