Besombes & Rizet Pole

Forty years after its first release at Pole Records, Gonzaï Records reissues a
psychedelic french masterpiece : "Pole" by Philippe Besombes and Jean-Louis Rizet.
That's a stunning piece of work made mainly by synths from various kinds (VCS,
Farfisas, Mellotron, etc), backed up occasionally with drums and other sounds.
Supported by artists like Julian Cope, Etienne Jaumet (Zombie Zombie) and various
diggers all around the world, "Pole" takes the listener through a trip, like the gods of
psychedelic music intended, from IRCAM's laboratories to german krautrock from
Faust to Cluster with Eno. Reissued in a single LP edition (including MP3 voucher with
track Synthi soit-il, absent from the vinyl), "Pole" is ideal for thorough shamanic
journeying without New Age namby-pambying, and after previewing some of the first
track (Haute Pression),listener could go on tripping on mushrooms, rediscovering that
dark and fuzzy side of unknown 70' french avant garde music era. Sounding like : Faust,
Cluster, Brian Eno, Patrick Vian, « This album changed my life, completely altered my
perspective of what was possible on that mind-bending night ». (Julian Cope)