TIP OF THE TONGUE 21 NOVEMBER 2010
Fille Qui Mousse
Trixie Stapleton 291
Bichon Records 005
LP
OUT OF STOCK!
Vinyl reissue of this all-time-classic classic Nurse With Wound list album, Fille Qui Mousse's ("Girl With Froth") Trixie Stapleton 291 aka Sa Taire Pour Une Femme Trop Belle, recorded in France in 1972 and issued in '73 but only as a test pressing in a run of circa 50 copies on Futura. Often described as the French Faust, Fille Qui Mousse combine psych rock, automating collage, noise, sound poetry and classic heavy riff action. It’s easy to see how Stapleton and Fothergill would have been blown away by the very existence of this thing; consummate weirdo genre demolition with a liberated approach to form that explodes extended rock moves with jagged tape edits, eerie little girl vocals over distant urban sound environments, epic free jazz outings and that classic what-the-fuck Futura edge. A major influence on Nurse With Wound and one of the truly great off-the-radar European underground sides: "Straight off, we plunge into that Faust structure...riffing with a psychedelic bent, hints of Gong too...we move into bizarrely constructed patterns of percussive sound and chopped-up rock music, and just as a musical focus takes shape it disappears. A poem, recited by a girl, over an urban landscape populated by numerous barking dogs then gives way to an intensely strange mangled web of sound that's almost brain numbing. And, yet more in the way of strangeness is a piano based piece that recalls some of Roger Doyle's early experiments. The only actual song has the most bizarre lyrics (in English) and is followed by an excursion in distorted and processed guitar. Next is where the folk music comes in, but even with gypsy violin FQM's interpretation of folk is strange and twisted. Finally, we return to the psychedelic jamming that opened the album, but with a jazzier edge, ending the album perfectly." --Audion. Highly recommended!
