La Revolution Francaise Ex Sinners Vinyl Original
LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE "C COOL"(CANADIAN CANUSA) 1968 THICK CVR IS SOLID VG+ NO SPLITS LITE WEAR HEAVY DISC IS VG+ TO VG++ FEW MARKS BUT HECK ITS FROM'68! ONE VERY KNOWEDGEABLE REVIEWER HAD THIS SAY TO SAY. Singer Francois Guy quit Les Sinners in October, 1968. His next move was to form La Revolution Francaise with ex-Sinners Georges Marchant on bass, drummer Louis Parizeau and former Les Janguars guitar player Jean-Guy Cossette. Signed by singer/producer Tony Roman's small CANUSA label the group debuted with the 1968 single: SIDE TWO IS A STRANGE EXPERIMENT IN PSYCHEDELIC RAMBLINGS....
1968's'Pierre-Paul Ladouceaur' b/w Isabelle (Le Cote Commercial)' (CANUSA catalog C-372). Compared to the Les Sinners catalog these tracks were clearly an attempt to adapt to changing audience tastes. While the first side wasn't exactly lysergic drenched wildness, it was clearly more experimental than previous releases, tracks like'Et La Terre Tournera' incorporating a tasty hard rock edge while retaining the earlier group's commercial sound. Even conventional ballads like'Coule L'Amour' and the Baroque-tinged'Pierre-Paul Ladouceaur' reflected a modest psychy feel complete with pounding keyboards and drifty, acid influenced atmospherics. Yeah,'Bingo' was little more than a studio throwaway, but having one loser on side one wasn't a major crime. The side long title track was a different story. Set against strumming acoustic guitars with occasional sound effects, isolated electric guitar runs, and even a sitar interlude, the song featured a weird, meandering mixture of spoken word narratives and isolated song fragments. Guy sounded pretty intense (or perhaps simply stoned). Anyone out there who speaks French want to enlighten me on what was going on? Certainly weird and not something you were likely to want to hear on a regular basis. By the way all six songs were performed in French. All told it held up fairly well against Les Sinners catalog, but they'll be some folks out there who enjoy the album's quirkier aspects.