Bleep

Originally released in 1980, Aksak Maboul’s groundbreaking LP gets the reissue treatment. Un Peu De L’ame Des Bandits is where it all began for Maboul’s Crammed Discs, and the avant-garde frenzy on Un Peu… must have bent brains out of shape when it first hit the scene. In hindsight it stands alongside Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Einstuerzende Neubauten’s Kollaps in ushering in the extreme musics of the continental 1980s. To say that this LP draws on free jazz, punk, industrial music and chamber-pop is to miss the point - it does all that within the first minute of opener ‘A Modern Lesson’. A more accurate statement would be that, on Un Peu De L’ame Des Bandits, Maboul’s fearlessness and vision set the tone for so much that came after.