Vidéo Aventures

Not really much a music group being a side task supergroup made up of a number of the leading statistics from the later-’70s/early-’80s France avant-garde, Video Aventures was a loosely defined collective beneath the command of musician, musician, and writer Dominique Grimaud, whose first music group, Camisole, have been a synthesizer duo relatively like a People from france response to Cluster. Video Aventures was a significantly less medical affair, with spontaneous improvisation and collaborative musicianship the guiding concepts. Influences which range from Karlheinz Stockhausen to Captain Beefheart could be glimpsed in the dazzlingly eclectic music, but general, Video Aventures falls in to the amorphously described Rock and roll in Opposition motion of their own time. Regular membership in the group shifted from efficiency to efficiency, but besides Grimaud, fellow synthesizer maestro Monique Alba and multi-instrumentalist/maker Gilbert Artman (the first choice of Lard Totally free, an instrumental ensemble very much beloved in artwork rock circles) had been mainstays. Metal guitarist Cyril Lefebvre, guitarist and keyboardist Jean Pierre Grasset, and drummer Guigou Chenevier (from the seminal People from france Rock and roll in Opposition music group Etron Fou Leloublan) also show up on the group’s first documenting, 1980’s Musiques put Garcons et Filles; trumpeter Jac Berrocal from the avant-jazz group Catalogue and vocalist and electrical pianist Sophie Jausserand became a member of them for the follow-up, 1984’s Camcorder (In Concentrate). Both albums had been originally released by ex-Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler’s Suggested Information; Artman’s Spalax label reissued both on Compact disc in 1997, adding ten previously unreleased shows which range from the group’s 1st rehearsals in 1979 with their final program in 1984.