Original 1970 BYG album facsimile-edition
Mastered to vinyl from BYG tapes by Nick Robbins
Lacquers cut by Cicely Balston at AIR STUDIOS
Exclusive liner notes by author and journalist Kevin Le Gendre
SIDE 1
1. Axis
2. Onurb
3. Le Nouveau Monde
4. L’Arbre
5. Valse
6. L’Enfant
SIDE 2
1. Extraits Du "Cercle" Final / Thème
2. Venez Jouer I
3. Mexican Song
4. Venez Jouer II
5. Tournez La Page...
6. Fumée Grise Et Marrons Chauds
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Comes in a deluxe matte laminate gatefold sleeve & printed inner wallet.
Original 1970 BYG album
Expanded with 6 original single-version tracks
Digitally mastered from BYG tapes by Nick Robbins
16-page booklet with exclusive liner notes by author and journalist Kevin Le Gendre
Includes unlimited streaming of Alice
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Comes with in-depth sleeve notes by author and music journalist Kevin Le Gendre in fully illustrated 16-page digital booklet featuring photos, original credits and more.
CULT FRENCH PROG ROCK BAND’S 1970 DEBUT ALBUM STILL SOUNDS AS FRESH NOW AS IT DID IN THE DAYS OF ‘BABA COOL’
Alice was part of the experimental and unpredictable energy that pervaded pop in the late ‘60s. Its members had previously worked with the well-regarded French blues rock bands Alan Jack Civilization and We Free, both of which performed at watershed events in Francophone musical history: the former appeared at the Actuel Festival at Amougies, Belgium and the latter at the Premier Festival De Pop Music at Blois, France. These gatherings offered large, mostly young audiences the shock of the new. Alice found itself swept along by such tides of cultural change.
Although the personnel would alter during the first stage of the band’s history the line-up that released an album and several singles in 1970 comprised Jean-Pierre Auffredo [woodwinds, strings], Sylvain Duplant [bass], Alain Weiss [drums] Bruno Besse [guitar, percussion, vibraphone] and Alain Suzan [guitar, keys, bass, guitar, vocals]. The fact that there were several multi-instrumentalists in the group enhanced the overall textural richness of its material, and, perhaps more importantly, facilitated the real possibility of spontaneity when the players either rehearsed or played live.
Playing a gaggle of instruments, including woodwinds and vibes, the combo had a sound that often departed from guitar-led grooves to incorporate European classical music and South American folk.
With their off the shoulder hair and thrown together threads, Alice was the epitome of what the Gallic chattering classes dubbed ‘baba cool’, a version of American hippies, making them the perfect fit for an unorthodox imprint such as BYG.
“This re-mastered version of Alice’s auspicious BYG debut provides an opportunity to reassess a band that deserves wider recognition ...” Kevin Le Gendre, 2022.
Original 1970 BYG album remastered from original BYG tapes.
Expanded with 6 original single-bonus tracks.
High definition digital audio 96kHz 24bit wav.
credits
released December 2, 2022
2022 Remastered Audiophile Edition
Executive producer for this re-issue: Jean-Luc Young
Re-issue produced for release by Geoffrey Cousin
Audio restoration and mastering from BYG tapes by Nick Robbins
Graphic design for this re-issue by Phil Rogers
A BYG Production
P 1970 BYG Records
C 2022 Charly Acquisitions Ltd.
An Original BYG Recording
Courtesy of Charly Acquisitions Ltd.
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