Pierre de Villiers

Une reconstitution spectaculaire et rigoureusement documentée de l'expédition militaro-scientifique de Bonaparte au pays des pharaons, qui permit l'éclosion de l'égyptologie. Le premier volet débute à Toulon, le 19 mai 1798 : quarante mille soldats, dix mille marins et 167 scientifiques et artistes se lancent à l'assaut des flots…

These recordings came about because the directors of Club Francais du Livre decided to go into the record business. Their plan was to record the top French musicians of the time, each session having an American visiting guest star. One suspects that the documentation of each session was sketchy, for instance there is an unlisted Bass player on the Buck Clayton set and there are other similar anomalies.

Olivier Carrié aka Uncle O chose to explore this effervescent and eclectic inter-zone for Cosmic Machine, The Sequel. A second opus that takes us a bit further in time to introduce us to the dark corners of a French musical landscape where recording studio workaholics like Jean-Pierre Massiera or Roger Roger produced endless strings of records that challenged the laws of gravity, where teenage heartthrob singer Alain Chamfort launched Araxis into space with a few synth notes, where drummer Cerrone enrolled in the Brigades Mondaines for the charms of a cover girl imagined by Gérard de Villiers and where the Anarchic System, The Peppers, Moon Birds or Arpadys dreamed of winning a one-way ticket to the moon.

by Geoffrey de Villiers (Author), E. Roy Pike (Author)