Déficit Des Années Antérieures - Les Ambulants

The nice Mr. Continuo must have had a little peep into my mind while he posted the D.D.A.A. ‘La Famille des Saltimbanques’ cassette, as he makes a reference to their Les Ambulants lp, just the one I was recording to post today. So now on to Les ambulants : in 1984 DDAA where still an obscure group of experimental music makers who 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 AnnéesAntérieures, 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 naive 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, starting with a 7" 45, Miss Vandam, in 1979. Research into various traditional ethnic music resulted in the EP Adventures in Africa in 1981 and the LP Action & Japanese Demonstration the next year, with hand-painted covers and elaborate packaging and inserts. Bernard C joined the lineup to play on the 1984 album Les Ambulants and continued on and off with them until the early '90s. Throughout the '80s and '90s, the group continued to put out records and tapes, as well as perform, and even exhibit artwork in various galleries in Paris and Nice. One highly recommended album. Les Ambulants was released on vinyl by Illusion Production (IP 020) in 1984.


Tracks :


1. The Riddle's Standards
2. Heidelberg Original
3. History
4. Attraper Un Bruit De Piano
5. From The Deep HP
6. Baltique 1ere Et 2eme Partie


( Tracks 1, 2 and 3 are recorded together)


Les Ambulants


enjoy.