Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978 nirvana these immense organs riddled with

these immense organs riddled with electric wires or these surreal keyboards with futuristic notes

Albert Camus

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

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Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978 nirvana these immense organs riddled withAuthor: Ian Thompson At the dawn of the '70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up and start again. Welcome to France, 1968. Music fans in the English speaking world are well versed in the parallel Krautrock scene that sprung up across the border in Germany, but they are almost totally unaware of the French musical underground. There the radicalism of May