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Released
  
1991 (1991)

Length
  
202:46

Release date
  
1991

Genre
  
Experimental rock

Recorded
  
1976–1985

Artist
  
Etron Fou Leloublan

Label
  
Baillemont

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Producers
  
Guigou Chenevier, Fred Frith

Similar
  
Les Poumons Gonflés, Batelages, The Time‑Life Treasury f

43 Songs is a three-CD box set by French avant-rock band Etron Fou Leloublan (EFL). It contains all tracks from the band's five studio albums, Batelages (1977), Les Trois Fous Perdégagnent (Au Pays Des...) (1978), Les Poumons Gonflés (1982), Les Sillons de la Terre (1984) and Face Aux Éléments Déchaînés (1985). It was released in 1991. Some of the tracks were mastered from particularly noisy vinyl sources and there is no booklet included.

Contents

The box set cover depicts "Crazy Shit, The White Wolf" (the rough English translation of the band's name) on top of a broken Eiffel Tower.

Background

Etron Fou Leloublan (EFL), together with Henry Cow (England), Stormy Six (Italy), Samla Mammas Manna (Sweden) and Univers Zero (Belgium), was one of the five original Rock in Opposition (RIO) bands that performed at the inaugural RIO festival in London on 12 March 1978. RIO was a musical collective of experimental music groups united in their opposition to the music industry. EFL recorded five studio albums between 1976 and 1985, and their music has been described as "Art rock with a twisted A". Their compositions are "fractured" elements of jazz, rock and pop with unusual structures that sometimes sound like "demented and absurdist small-orchestra hymns". The 43 Songs box set covers EFL's entire recording career.

Track listing

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Personnel

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Etron Fou Leloublan

  • Ferdinand Richard – bass guitar, vocals
  • Guigou Chenevier – drums, percussion, tenor saxophone, vocals
  • Chris Chanet (Eulalie Ruynat) (1.1-5) – winds, vocals
  • Francis Grand (1.6-10, 2.1-2) – alto and tenor saxophone, melodica, flute, harmonica, zither, vocals
  • Jo Thirion (2.3-17, 3.1-16) – organ, piano, trumpet, vocals
  • Bernard Mathieu (2.3-12) – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Bruno Meillier (2.13-17, 3.1-5) – alto, tenor and baritone saxophones

    • Guests

  • Jean-Pierre Grasset (1.6-9) – guitars
  • Michel Grezes (2.12) – voice
  • Fred Frith (2.8, 2.12, 3.8-9, 3.13, 3.15) – guitar, violin

    • Production

  • Batelages (1977)
  • Recorded in November 1976
  • Produced by Etron Fou Leloublan
  • Les Trois Fous Perdégagnent (Au Pays Des...) (1978)
  • Recorded at Studio Tangara, Toulouse, France in November 1977
  • Produced by Etron Fou Leloublan
  • Les Poumons Gonflés (1982)
  • Recorded at THC, Bernex, Switzerland in November 1981
  • Produced by Fred Frith
  • Les Sillons de la Terre (1984)
  • Recorded at Studio THC, Geneva, Switzerland, 20–30 August 1983
  • Produced by Guigou Chenevier
  • Face Aux Éléments Déchaînés (1985)
  • Recorded at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg, Switzerland, August 1985
  • Produced by Fred Frith

    • Songs

    1L'amulette et le petit rabbin18:08
    2Sololo Brigida3:17
    3Yvett'blouse0:26

    References

    43 Songs Wikipedia
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