tracks

Love, Love Is There
Gog Demagog
Bad Guy
The Way I Do Love You
Such A Lovely Voice
Once In A While
Music Of The Rain A.K.A Melodie De
Decomplexion
Ugly Room
Ever Be My Friend?
Paris Est Une Ville D'alcooliques
J'ai Decide
Le Romancier Tcheque
J'entends Les Etoiles
Sisyphe
C'est La Guerre
Pauvre Cobaye A.K.A. Cow-Boy
Une Riviere Qui S'egare
Un Jour De Chance
Love You One Other
Marouanabab
Love, Love Is There
Le Metro
Pop Club Session

notes

Release Date: 1967/1970 French band
Freedom fries' idiocy aside, the country of France and the genre of psychedelia are usually thought of as 'mutually exclusive'. We humbly present a glorious exception. Deftly combining lilting vocal harmonies and lush studio production, to say the brothers Maruani (Guy and Andre) and Henri Bratler were the 'Gallic Fab Three' is a claim ably backed up by the sheer brilliance of their two English language 7"s released by EMI-Odeon in 1969. Fortunately for us, and despite the machinations of the Robert Stigwood Orginasation (a management decision they would soon regret), they had a bit more to say and so we give you all four single sides, seventeen unreleased compositions (most in finished form with superb studio fidelity) and three tracks sourced from the 1970 appearance on the French TV show 'Pop Club' (also easy on the ears fidelity-wise). Rounding up this package are track-by-track liner notes by the ever-sardonic Guy Maruani, complete lyrics and a multitude of photos from the era. C'est si bon!'

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