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• Released on: 2009-09-28
• Running time: 861 seconds

Customer Reviews:

Who the hell is Pascal Comelade?
Never heard of this guy (band?) before but I checked and he has a ton of recordings out there. I am on my second listening of this sampler and I give it an enthusiastic thumbs up. It is all instrumental and it is like a strange blend of German burlesque(carnival?)music (think The Tiger Lillies or Tom Waits Black Rider) mixed with Latin beats like Voltaire. Strange stuff and not for everybody, but I will put these tracks on my MP3 player and let them get shuffled in for a little surprise every now and then.

Plus I could not resist downloading it on sight anyway cause it has a flaming piano comet on the cover and flaming piano comets are awesome.

Wonderfully wistful humorous farce
I like music that breaks a new trail while remaining beautiful and moving. In addition to that, this music is humorous almost comic farce. It could be the soundtrack to a Jacques Tati movie. Pascal Comelade’s music is like recollections Paris and Barcelona seen thru the eye of a child. There are touches of irony and wistfulness in his music. His music is accented by toy instruments. The music is deliberately not perfect: beats aren’t locked by computer sync, the toys are out of tune, players come in late like they’ve been partying all night. Very human music, complete with imperfections but not mistakes.

* I Can’t Control Myself sounds like a rock ballad played mostly on rock instruments including a balloon squealing fart like noises (making the title a joke?). Just plain whacky.

* L’argot du Bruit (translates as The Slang of Noise) is a rousing dance piece, tango flavored waltz that gets rather rowdy.

* Le Fakir de La Chapelle (The Fakir of the Vault) echoes a parisian carousel tune, again a waltz featuring toy instruments.

* To Be Ornette To Be (wordplay on Hamlet’s “To be or not to be.” and Ornette Coleman) A Spanish flavored dance tune with toy sax and real sax.

After 2 play throughs of this album, I wanted more like “L’argot du Bruit” so I bought the Monofonicorama album. It has become a favorite.