Artist: Etron Fou Leloublan
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Batelages
Year: 2006
Tracks: 5
43 Songs (cd2)
Year: 1991
Tracks: 17
43 Songs (cd1)
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
French progressive rock unit Etron Fou Leloublan -- rough translated, "Huffy Sh*t, the Caucasian Wolf" -- was formed in 1974 by vocaliser Eulalie Ruynat, bassist/vocalist Ferdinand V Richard, saxist Chris Chanet, and drummer Guigou Chenevier. A ware of the Rock in Opposition coalition -- a loose corporate of British people and Western sandwich European artists, spearheaded by Henry Cow, that openly challenged the commercial, creative, and sociopolitical aims of mass-market popular music -- Etron Fou Leloublan boasted a manic, dumbly rhythmical coast path capably captured by their 1976 debut LP, Batelages. Saxist Francis Yard replaced Chanet for the 1978 follow-up, Les Trois Fou's Perdégagnent (Au Pays DES...); a brief 1979 tour of the U.S. yielded the live saucer En Public au Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Claude Bernard Mathieu put on adolphe Sax duties and Jo Thirion replaced Ruynat for 1982's Fred Frith-produced Les Poumons Gonfles, with yet another saxist -- St. Bruno Meillier -- sign language on for 1984's Les Sillons de la Terre. That same class, a longtime Etron Fou Leloublan ordinance that the members could non get in in musical theater projects outside the group's ranks was lifted, and both Richard and Chenevier recorded solo efforts; the one time teamed with Sophie Jausserand for A l'Abri diethylstilbestrol Micro-Climats, patch the latter partnered with the historied violoncellist Tom Kore for En Avant. Chenevier at the sami time formed a endorsement mathematical group, Encore Plus Grande, spot Richard moonlighted with Alfred the Great Harth in Gestalt et Jive. Having on the face of it had their use up of revolving saxophonists, Richard, Chenevier and Thirion recorded 1985's Nerve aux Eléments Déchainés as a three-piece; the LP was the terminal Etron Fou Leloublan recording, with 1991's three-disc 43 Songs accumulation the totality of the group's studio production signal.
