Published
Mon, Mar 23, 2015, 17:42
- The Parisian underground vet has a new trio and an album out in April.
Jac Berrocal, David Fenech and Vincent Epplay's Antigravity will be released by Blackest Ever Black in late April.
Berrocal, a horn player born in 1946, was a member of the '70s Paris improv scene. He's collaborated with the likes of Nurse With Wound, James Chance, Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, Lol Coxhill, Telectu and Pascal Comelade. The d'Avantage label boss remains active as a collaborator and released a solo album titled MDLV last year. He is perhaps best known for the "Rock 'n Roll Station," a mix of absurdist poetry and musique concrète. The new trio turns in a new version of the song on Antigravity.
Blackest Ever Black says Antigravity is "a lugubrious mise-en-scène in which ice-cold outlaw jazz meets musique concrète, DIY whimsy and dubwise studio science, all watched over by the lost souls and hungry ghosts of rock 'n roll." Berrocal worked with Antigravity bandmate David Fenech as part of another trio in 2011. Fenech has been active in various underground scenes since the '90s, having worked with Rhys Chatham and James Plotkin. Vincent Epplay is a visual and sound artist focusing on aleatory, or chance, composition.
Listen to "Where Flamingos Fly" below.
Tracklist
01. Nanook
02. The Overload
03. Panic In Bali
04. Rock 'n Roll Station
05. Where Flamingoes Fly
06. Kinder Lieder
07. Tsouking Chant
08. La Valse Des Lilas
09. Nanooks
10. Solaris
11. Ife L'ayo
12. Spain
13. Riga Centraal
Blackest Ever Black will release Antigravity in late April 2015.