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Artist:	MANSET, GERARD
Title:	La Mort D'Orion
Label:	WORLD PSYCHEDELIA (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	WPC6 8507

"Manset, a self proclaimed 'lifelong rebel and eternal failure,' released his debut album in May of '68, just as the students were manning the ramparts. But it wasn't until La Mort D'Orion was released in 1970 that he really entered the public consciousness. The record is a thrillingly ambitious concept album of orchestral psych for which the self-taught Manset wrote all the music, lyrics, and arrangements. The title track runs nearly 25 minutes long, with an epic sweep that seems to encompass and distill all the finest French modernism has to offer, from Mallarmé and Nerval in its literary pretensions to the sonic advancements in studio sound pioneered by the likes of Pierre Schaffer and Pierre Henry. Moments of seemingly normal French chanson give way to subtle and psychologically disorienting manipulations of orchestral trappings -- the results are very dark, very beautiful, and quite unlike anything you'd expect from French popular music. Creepy in some parts, at others 'serious' psychedelic/avant prog, with abundant dark orchestrated atmospheres. A masterpiece! A hefty booklet (20 pages) contains biographical information and lyrics."

Artist:	MANSET, GERARD
Title:	1968
Label:	XENON (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	XENON 11788CD

"You know how sometimes people try so hard that they do not wish their early moments to be seen nor heard? Such is the case with Gérard Manset and his first recordings which, as it were, represent some of the best psychedelic chansons in existence and in league with such luminaries as Gainsbourg, Polnareff and Ferrer. Ill-conceived timing with the May 1968 student riots in Paris doomed the fate of his Animal on est Mal EP and self-titled LP, and both are now as rare as truffles. However, his popularity increased and so in 1971 the suits saw fit to re-release eleven of the twelve tracks from that earlier tumultuous era, plus a previously-unreleased composition, in a stark B&W sleeve, and that is what we present to you here."

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