So I went to my local record store today to buy the Gonjasufi record along with a few other goodies…anyway the main man behind the counter and I started talking about Gonjasufui when I informed him that I liked how ancient and freaky it sounded…after hearing this he pulled out this bad-boy that has just been released called Horrific Child “L’etrange Mr. Whinster”…I believe it’s either a re-issue or it’s been culled from the dudes 70’s recordings.
ANYWAY…I listened to this record and it was friggin awesome!!! It’s like a mixture of tribal rhythms, b-movie horror samples, awesome funk breaks, cracking 70’s hard rock riffs and a shitload of other strange samples!!!
There’s an awesome booklet that comes with the record, so I was happily reading that while listening to this outrageously awesome record. One funny thing that stood out was “when the drugs got stronger…the songs got longer!” HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
This guy Jean Pierre Massiera and the other folk he had on this record are bona fide toons. I LOVE’EM!!!
I believe everyone here would dig this record due to it being so goddamn spooky, cool and most of all demented.
Check this killer cut from the record…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDGmuyT4d0
You can also listen to some snippets of the record below…
And here is Piccadilly’s lowdown…
The follow up to the critically acclaimed “Midnight Massiera: The B-Music Of Jean Pierre Massiera”, “L’Etrange Mr. Whinster” is a disturbing mix of dismembered tape samples, paranoid-poetry and cosmic chaos resurrected from the crypt of Studio Antibes 1976, and was marketed in the format of a psychological experience rather than a pop record. A blood-stained patchwork of surrealism and brooding psychedelic rock, the LP stitched together Massiera’s own shock-tactical spoken word and a cacophony of live instrumentation and de-tuned and collaged samples from the vaults of the Antibes Studio. Most of the contributors, loosely described as the 'personnel’, were featured in snippet and sample form apart from some short custom written passages that were performed by musicians from the Nice Music Conservatory directed by Antibes regular Gérard Pontieux who would later appear on the credits as an arranger for “Human Egg” and “Turn Radio On” (Massiera’s rare proto-disco collaboration with his half brother Bernard Torelli). Extra electric basslines were dubbed onto the record courtesy of ex-Pyranas / Hermaphrodites bassist Tony Bonfils (who would later appear in “Synthesis” and “Human Egg”). Beneath the deep theatrical growls of JPM himself, backing vocals came from the two singing duos Paul & Virginia and Micky & Joyce including samples lifted straight from precious sessions such as “Visitors” or “Les Chats Renaissance”. Massiera also credits vocal appearances to two bizarre figures from the French glitterati in the form of stage singer Roberto Galbés and the larger than life celebrity impresario Bob Damiano (who would later write lyrics for Massiera’s extra terrestrial Venus Gang project).
Has anyone heard of this guy Jean Pierre Massiera before??? I’m sure I’ve seen his name around before over the years.
