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Various Artists - Kiosque d'Orphée – Une épopée de l'autoproduction en France '2024

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Kiosque d'Orphée – Une épopée de l'autoproduction en France
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Album name Kiosque d'Orphée – Une épopée de l'autoproduction en France
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Date 2024
GenrePop Rock,Folk,Psychedelic
Play time 134 min
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
Media WEB
Size 297 MB; 1.4 GB
PriceDownload $8.95
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Paris label Born Bad survey the array of DIY, small-run french gems of folk,
spunky pop, and young composers cut by George Batard’s service, Kiosque
d'Orphée between 1967-1991, spanning charms such as Mar Vista’s eerie
psych-pop, a 10 minute prog-folk song about vikings, hairy rock fuzz by
Amphyrite, an 18 minute krautrock/free-jazz zinger, heroic synths by Joël
Boutolleau, sleazy jazz exotica and all stripes between, by reliably obscure
one-off projects

“The French equivalent of the English "Derby Service", the Kiosque
d'Orphée, formerly at 7 Rue Grégoire de Tours in the 6th arrondissement,
was taken over by Georges Batard in 1967 and moved to 20 Rue des Tournelles in
the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The adventure lasted until 1991. Georges Batard
was a sound engineer who used a Neumann tube engraver to engrave acetates from
the tapes he received, before printing the precious vinyls in the press
factories of the day, where he was able to produce very small runs of between 50
and 500 copies.

Of course, there were other structures for releasing his records, such as
Voxigrave or, later, FLVM, but none of them had so many records in their
catalog. Le Kiosque d'Orphée was neither a label nor a publisher, but a
structure that allowed you to press your own vinyl, at a time when it was quite
an adventure to get your first 45 rpm or 33 rpm album released!

Georges Batard was described as passionate and conscientious. His son, bassist
Didier Batard, wrote of him: "Georges was passionate about recording and
reproducing the stereo sound of his great passion, music. He paid close
attention to distortion rates, signal-to-noise ratios, response curves, rise
times and other damping factors in audio equipment. He was looking for the exact
reproduction of concert hall sound in his living room (with the same sound
level, if possible...). In the late '50s/early '60s, he found other sound
enthusiasts in AFDERS (Association Française pour le Développement de
l'Enregistrement et de la Reproduction Sonores). He became its honorary
president. Every Saturday afternoon, its members met to test au- dio equipment.
Their opinions were published in the monthly Revue du Son.

All you had to do was send in your tapes and choose the number of record copies
you'd like to take home with you, so you could finally share your creations and,
in a way, exist. You could opt for a generic sleeve, available in several
colors, directly customizable with your name and credits, or you could design
your dream sleeve yourself in your living room or at a printer's.

This "Do It Yourself" temple gave birth to some superb pouches. Stencilled,
hand-written, illustrated with paintings, drawings, illustrations by friends or
girlfriends of the time, photo prints hastily stuck in the middle of a blank,
white sleeve, on which the traces of time would leave their imprints, so that
collectors and the curious would come and buy them decades later, with the
promise of a musical discovery, unfortunately not always fulfilled…”

Tracklist:
1.01 - Mar Vista - Her Eyes Are Closed (3:58) 
1.02 - Kënnlisch - Kennlisch (4:39) 
1.03 - Crystal Eyes - Crystalzed (5:48) 
1.04 - WARLUS - Girl Like You (2:24) 
1.05 - Gérard Alfonsi - Fana Stickle (2:29) 
1.06 - Geoffroy - Viking (11:52) 
1.07 - Amphyrite - Symphonie pour 3 œufs brouillés (3:30) 
1.08 - Eole - Friendship (4:00) 
1.09 - Capucine - Les éléphants (1:29) 
1.10 - Rictus - Flashes (2:14) 
1.11 - Inscir Transit Express - Cipangu (18:09) 
1.12 - Polaris - Polaris (4:08) 
1.13 - Joël Boutolleau - Force (7:34) 
1.14 - Spotch Forcey - Frustré (3:33) 
1.15 - Demon & Wizard - Black Witch (5:41) 
1.16 - Temple Sun - Voyage sans retour (5:30) 
1.17 - Chantal Weber - Ballade aux châtaignes tombées (1:59) 
1.18 - Jean-Claude Zemour - X Kmh (3:30) 
1.19 - Rhodes & Co - Baoum (4:56) 
1.20 - Guidon, Edmond et Clafoutis - Stormy Sunday (5:02) 
1.21 - Dominique A, Dominique a - Silence entre nos larmes (Un disque sourd)
(1:56) 
1.22 - Didier Bocquet - Le chemin du silence part.2 (23:03) 
1.23 - Alain Meunier - Les épaves (1:56)

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