Les Cousins

3CD compilation focussing on the mid-60s haunt of the emergent folk and blues scene in London. Featuring a host of big names who visited the venue many of whom went on to national success. Les Cousins was a folk and blues club in the basement of a restaurant in Greek Street, in London’s Soho, which became a home and the epicentre for the folk revival of the mid-1960s, a venue where musicians met and learnt from each other. As such, it was influential in the careers of so many pioneers – Al Stewart, Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Alexis Korner, Strawbs, Roy Harper, Paul Simon and many others.

L'ethnologue démontre que l'oppression des femmes sévit aussi bien dans les pays chrétiens que musulmans et qu'aucun n'a su totalement repousser l'héritage de la préhistoire et du paganisme. …

The Cousins is a guitar group of the late fifties and early sixties who were among the first to successfully export "rock & roll" music from Belgium. Played Shadows-like music and also had a stage act which resembled that of The Shadows. Started off at the end of the fifties as "La Jeune Equipe". Their main occupation was playing at the birthday parties of the rich and noble. They change their name to "Les Cousins" when they were asked to perform in a club with the same name on the 14th of July (French fкte nationale). It's there that the group gets a record contract with Jean Klüger. The cheerful song "Kili-Watch" of 1960 becomes an instant and huge hit. In a few months 50.000 copies are sold, an enormous amount for the Belgian record market at that point. The song is an adaptation of an Indian warsong that bass-player Derese had picked up during his years as a boy-scout.

C'est l'histoire toute simple d'un gars qui fait le manœuvre dans des petits ateliers de mécanique.
Félix tente d'expliquer en phrases saines et drues son désarroi d'être incompris et de mal comprendre. Que ce soit dans ses discussions avec ses patrons, avec les cousins ou avec sa femme, Paulette, Félix souffre toujours de savoir mal s'exprimer. Il lui arrive même d'entrer en conflit, dans l'esprit de sa femme, avec de superbes mots de roman-feuilleton, et de perdre la bataille. …

Qu'est-ce que l'Homme ? Voilà la question fondamentale qui nous agite. D'où venons-nous, quelles sont nos racines ? …

Ceci n’est pas un livre d’histoire, et pourtant tout y est avéré. C’est le roman vrai des derniers feux de la monarchie, la chronique d’une civilisation au raffinement inégalé, et que 1789 emportera à jamais.
Le roman vrai de sept destins, chacun emblématique et unique à la fois. Des aristocrates de haut lignage, dotés des vertus dont tout noble doit s’enorgueillir : fierté, courage, raffinement, culture, esprit, art de plaire. …