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Gordy 
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 Topic: France for KrautrockPosted: September 11 2023 at 02:45 |
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France are - appropriately enough - a French krautrock trio, formed in 2005 by hurdy-gurdyist Yann Gourdon, bassist Jérémie Sauvage and drummer Mathieu Tilly, all students at the École des Beaux-Arts in Valence. The three also participate in the various bands of the Le Puy-based avant-garde folk collective La Nòvia. The long shadow of Tony Conrad and Faust's seminal Outside the Dream Syndicate looms over France's pulsing minimalist "drone-folk", expressed in over twenty releases of usually limited editions and issued over various labels including Sauvage's own Standard In-Fi.
Barring their 2010 self-titled debut and its 2011 follow-up Pau, France's discography mostly consists of room recordings of their hypnotic improvised live shows, performed in the middle of the audience and ranging from around thirty minutes to over an hour of relentless zoned-out jamming, revolving around the steady din of Gourdon's amplified vielle à roue. France come highly recommended to fans of Water Damage, Gnod, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Spacemen 3, David Maranha and even Boredoms.  "Do Den Haag Church" (2009) "Occitanie" (2009) "Pau" (2011) "Desastre - Live At Kraak Fest 2011" (2012) "Meltdown of Planet Earth" (2015) "À La Recherche De La Flexitude Du Temps" (2018) "Ott" (2018) "Far-Out Far-West" (2019) "Bizarro" (2020)
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 11 2023 at 04:50 |
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I suppose there will be a band called Germany for Zeuhl next?
 I will certainly investigate, thx
 Edited by Sean Trane - September 11 2023 at 04:51 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Cristi
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Posted: September 11 2023 at 04:58 |
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I have never understood how bands that are not German play krautrock.
 
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: September 11 2023 at 05:06 |
Me neither. For instance, did you know that British snooker legend Steve 'Interesting' Davis is a member of Krautrock trio, The Utopia Strong? I find that quite interesting.   Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 11 2023 at 05:07 |
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Gordy
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Posted: September 19 2023 at 00:05 |
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Added to Krautrock.
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