were you at that gig?

Alas not - never seen RZ! The three clips were sent by my mate (& theirs!) taken on her little camera; Rene & Anne gave their consent for me to put them on You Tube.

Hardly in the mainstream, they did an album for Harmonia Mundi in 1979 (the sublime Musique a Bourdon, reissued on CD as La Florilege de la Viella a Roue) and their second duo album, La Mare du Deu (see Here for discography) remains unreleased. I have a copy on CDR - & it really is quite the most astonishing thing I've ever heard.

RZ's ground-breaking debut LP, Je Chant Pour Passer le Temps (aka Chant et Vielle) was released by Chante du Monde in 1968 and has never seen a CD reissue...

RZ's sound has always been pretty uncompromising; a modernist noise often on a par with Sun Ra's approach to electronics. Ironically his most extreme examples are to be found within the context of his frequent forays in medieval music as a member of The Clemencic Consort - not least the classic Roman de Fauvel, where RZ's masterful oration is offset by the most demonic hurdy-gurdy one might imagine.

I'll pop you a copy along to The Beech next week; Pip too - I still owe him one for Kew Rhone. Just the thing for the season!