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    Posted: March 27 2010 at 15:54
Here is a French avant-gardiste band that released eleven albums.
It was founded in 1973 by Gilbert Artman.
This band is composed of 30 saxophonists, 1o chorists, 3 percussionnists and a bassist.
Here is their page on MySpace  
Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira

- Paul Éluard
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2010 at 16:06
I've listened to these guys on Myspace before, though I wasn't sure if I'd consider them avant-rock based on what I heard.  I'll give them another listen.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2010 at 17:14
I don't think the samples in the player do this band justice.
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Points: 32637 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2010 at 17:47
Pierre Henry & Urban Sax's Paradise Lost is a damned fine album.
Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Points: 3597 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2010 at 13:35
The challenging krautrockin' looped electronic project LARD FREE is already included, so I can imagine to see Urban sax included in the archives one of these days. Thanks. 
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2010 at 08:27
Nice band, but I think they fit better in the JazzArchives Tongue
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Points: 10837 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2010 at 13:22
Urban Sax in JazzArchives??? Well, from what I heard, they're hardly jazz! Avant-garde indeed (so much avant-garde that I can't see them as "rock"), but not jazz.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2010 at 13:23
I can see them in both. LOL
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Points: 32637 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2010 at 14:10
I do at least think that Pierre Henry and Urban Sax is worthy of inclusion.
Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2010 at 19:03
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Urban Sax in JazzArchives??? Well, from what I heard, they're hardly jazz! Avant-garde indeed (so much avant-garde that I can't see them as "rock"), but not jazz.


Avantgarde-jazz existsso this shouldn't come as a surprise.
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Points: 8321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2010 at 19:04
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I do at least think that Pierre Henry and Urban Sax is worthy of inclusion.
 
Well, seconded.
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Points: 32637 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2011 at 19:44
I've been lsitening a  lot to Spiral over the last six months or so, and had uploaded this.

I think the album and Urban Sax worthy for PA:



From rateyourmusic:

Formed1973,   841 Menton, France
MembersGilbert Artman, Gérard Amsellem, Phil Drom, Antoine Duvernet, Patrice Quentin, Gilles Yéprémian, Chris Chanet, Bernard Weber, Jacques Remus, Pascal Battus, Fred Aquaviva, Jacky Dupéty, Françoise Crublé
Related ArtistsLard Free, Etron Fou Leloublan, Camizole, Kool Gool, Crium Délirium, Nova Vano, Mahjun, Abracadabra, Pages, Nyl, Urbi Flat, Archexénon, Le Grand Nébuleux et ses Laveurs de Consciences
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Points: 1 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2017 at 13:08
Hi,

Urban Sax + these bands quoted from Rate your Music are the subject of a book published in french, Agitation Frite by french journalist Philippe Robert.

40 interviews with Urban Sax Gilbert Artman and Magma, Etron Fou Leloublan,etc. Have a look!

http://www.lenkalente.com/product/agitation-frite-de-philippe-robert
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