Les Primitifs Du Futur

Subject: Les Primitifs Du Futur
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 03:26 AM

What could be better than this?

Tribal Musette

Webster Hall #1 (don't know the title, that's probably the location

Don't know what this is


On PRI's The World

Sound samples and downloads

"Legendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and guitarist Dominique Cravic founded Les Primitifs du Futur in 1986 craving real Parisian musette instead of poor imitations heard in variety shows. It sounds like they've stepped right out the 30's, the members of Les Primitifs du Futur brilliantly blend world-musette and Django-style guitar into old-fashion originals. What the Parisian band actually plays is "musette", a style developed in France at the turn of the century before exploding in Paris in the 30's and '40s. Mixing popular folk dancing from Auvergne with swing, gypsy inflections, and polka, musette is by definition dance music. The Primitifs leader, guitarist Dominique Cravic, wrote most of the material and gathered a crack team of experts on such instruments as the jazzo-flute, the xylophone, the cabrette or the musical saw. The band pays tribute to musette, mixing it up with as many dance styles as possible, leading to unholy dancefloor experiments that call to mind a Parisian fantasy in which 40's-style gangsters hang out with gypsy bad boys. With their three albums made up of original compositions, the Primitifs du Futur remain at the forefront of the renaissance of chanson francaise manifestly occurring in France today. The group first came to public attention via its most famous member - the late American cartoonist Robert Crumb. Even without him, they're definitely exciting...

Subject: RE: Les Primitifs Du Futur
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 03:29 AM

Oops. Forgot to close a parenthesis and a quote.

Subject: RE: Les Primitifs Du Futur
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 09:58 AM

No shit eh !

eric

Subject: RE: Les Primitifs Du Futur
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 01:14 PM

They've been around a while I have their earlier recordings, with R. Crumb artwork and performing, VERY FUN MUSIC, they just did a small tour of the US, New Orleand and the East Coast, NYC, would have loved to see them live, look for all thier music it's worth having

Subject: RE: Les Primitifs Du Futur
From: fat B****rd
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 03:02 PM

I would sing in the bathtub but I don't have one. But I'll be checking these tracks out.
Thankyou Carol, I hope you and your accordion are well, Charlie.

Subject: RE: Les Primitifs Du Futur
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Aug 08 - 03:45 PM

We are indeed, thanks. And likewise.