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BMS042
Various Artists
THE B-MUSIC OF JEAN ROLLIN
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Rising out of the smoky Parisian Mai 68 shrapnel and claiming his
stake as the first French vampire movie director, the inimitable father of
European Horrortica, Jean Rollin (1938-2010) has smudged the painted
face of surrealist cinema for over five decades.
Dragging his roots from beneath the Letterist/Situationist movements,
avant-garde theatre, Belgian fine art groups and entwining them around
the minds of sexual revolutionaries, the European comic book
cognoscenti, the Parisian free jazz and rock scene, Rollin stopped at
nothing to bring his macabre phantasies of zygotic vampirism and backward
blood cults to Gallic cinemateques and beyond. Celebrating
the immortal legacy of the late director Finders Keepers Records have
compiled a detailed and comprehensive music cabinet of some of the
finest musical moments from his initial directorial decade (1968-1979)
that provided a much needed platform for the freak rock and free jazz
that mirrored the distorted erotic visions in his own mind’s eye. Imagine
Gong-Gone-Wrong meeting the Art Ensembles Of Châteauroux...
Fantasy pop groups mutate and thrive within.
Featuring early recordings from mod rockers Unity, free jazz legends
Barney Wilen, François Tusque and Jean-François Jenny-Clark and
musical co-conspirators to Walerian Borowczyk and Fernando Arrabal,
this collection unites a wide range of previously unreleased material
with some of Finders Keepers’ most collectable Rollinade vinyl moments
for the first collection of this kind featuring music over forty years old.