A cd from my collection. Very eclectics tracks. It could interest some of you.
"Edgar P. Jacobs, the famous cartoonist of Blake and Mortimer, would have dreamed of hearing the adventures of his heroes set to music.
Why not ? This is not the first to have thought of it and the amateur probably remembers the excellent La Note bleue of Paringaux and Loustal
accompanied at the time by a vinyl signed by the jazz saxophonist Barney Wilen.
To punctuate a universe already rich in sounds of urban life but whose music is strictly speaking and paradoxically absent,
the designers of this compilation have worked in terms of tempo, namely the one that, underlying, punctuates these comic strips made of adventures.
To stick closer to the investigations of the tandem, Alert sonic !, and this is his singularity, raking all over the place,
both on the mechanical BPM side of techno and easy listening, in a retro-futuristic largely kitsch and true to the spirit of comics.
So we pass, from one track to another, from rhythm'n'blues (King Curtis) to more playful things (Jean-Jacques Perrey) or trend (St Germain),
iconoclasts (Pascal Comelade, Joseph Racaille , Hector Zazou) or contemporary (Arvo Pärt).
Probably the creator of these heroes would have appreciated. For sure, a success. By Jove!" --Hervé Comte
(Google translation)
