Les enfants terribles

The great thing with 70s left-wing french smoker hippies freaky material is that almost no one really cares about it anymore except your father, and the friend who gave you the link.

Even moldy chanson lovers do not dare to quote such records into their glossaries, and we are gratefull, so we can forget them and focus on the pure strangeness of these excentric ultra-pathos vocal harmonies and maboule arrangements (among folk guitars, various exploded strings, flutes, light ethnic drums = the whole classic set in this area).

Les enfants terribles is a family (Alain Feral with wife, brothers and sisters), and as usual, early recordings (66-69 EPs and first album C'est la vie) are the best. Despite great artwork, second LP On l'appelle Madame was disappointing, regarding how difficult it was to find (more poetry for less madness).

Again, any frenchy will probably fly away from this marshmallow, but offer this record to any stranger, focusing on music, he'll probably fall in love with it. I always considered it as a good sign.