This obscure group of radical experimental noise makers used improvisation and collage to craft strange sounds and deconstructed songs for highly creative music that is as far off the path of conventions as that of similar but more known visionaries like the Residents and Nurse With Wound. In fact, DDAA roughly began the same time as NWW in the late '70s, started by three visual artists, Sylvie Martineau, Jean-Philippe Fee, and Jean-Luc Andre in Lion sur Mer, France. The multi-talented trio originally formed Illusion Productions to create plastic sculpture and other various artistic pursuits and DDAA became the musical arm of Illusion. Déficits des Années Antérieures, their full name, translates roughly in English as "last year's deficit," though perhaps more appropriate is the fact that their initials are an anagram of Dada, that pre-Surrealism art movement at the time of World War I. As none of the three were trained musicians, their music had a distinct naïve quality of outsider art and with few noticeable influences, exists on a plane of its own. Like others whose music is too uncompromisingly different to become commercial, DDAA began releasing recordings under the umbrella of Illusion Productions.Ronsard was released on KK Records/Electrip (KKo11, EL01) on lp in 1988, the 7" was released on KK Records/Electrip (KK 012, EL02) in 1988 as a Limited Edition of 200 Copies, incl. with 'Ronsard' LP in 69 numbered & 131 unnumbered Sleeves. The lp & 7" where released on cd by KK Records/Electrip (KKo11 CD, EL01 CD) with one bonus track the same year.
The tape is a whole different matter, I got it with the lp and 7" as part of the first numbered copies (mine 33 of 69), if the tape was issued with all of the 69 numbered copies I do not know as there is nothing to be found on the net about the tape. The Ronsard 1524 - 1585 tape was made in June 1985 and issued as the copyright suggests in 1988 by Illusion Production (iPO36).
The tape sounds different than the lp.
Tracks :
Ronsard lp :
1. Ronsard Did Celebrate Me
2. The Plant Of Helen
7" :
1. Otez Votre Jeunesse
2. Afin Qu´à Tout Jamais
Ronsard Tape :
1. Untitled
2. Untitled
Ronsard LP + 7"
Ronsard Tape
enjoy.
7 comments:
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for the DDAA! Incredible!
I think that's the best stuff these guys ever recorded... naive magic!!!
-sergio
Thanks over the moon and ruido horrible, enjoy this excellent record,7" & tape,DDAA surreal and magical,an incredible band.
Thanks.
thanks for posting this Cranio. I lost my copy of the tape years ago. Nice to finally hear it again.
hi AAA,
No problem, enjoy it.
thanks.
Thank you for this gem....
It's some years since i last listened to this...
wiseblood
I downloaded this quite a long time ago, yet until now never really appreciated it. Very cool release. Thank you so very much!
The two cassette tracks are actually the tracks on LP, but they are in very different, probably earlier takes, very raw and, in the case of "The Plant Of Helen", very intense, like their early live work but longer and more sinister/rockish.
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