Psychofon Records, their current label, compares them to The Residents, Nurse With Wound and Can. Which sounds like they’re casting way too wide of a net -until you listen to the surreal, percussive soundscapes of Déficit Des Années Antérieures (DDAA) and realize that yeah, that’s actually pretty spot-on. Formed in 1977 by three students from the School of Beaux Arts in Caen, France, DDAA’s music encompasses everything from eerie tape loop experiments to tribal percussion to minimalist post-punk anthems that make Suicide sound like Wham! by comparison. Until 1992, they were wildly prolific, releasing somewhere around 15 albums and various EPs and singles, many of which were available only on cassette. Amazingly, despite their prodigious output, Jean-Luc André, Sylvie Martineau-Fée and Jean-Philippe Fée -the three musicians who have formed the core of DDAA for the band’s entire existence- appear to remain virtually unknown outside of France. Most of their tracks, especially from this era, have very assertive, atmospheric bass lines, which appear to be courtesy of Jean-Philippe Fée. France’s answer to The Residents? Sort of -but it’s probably more accurate to say that DDAA don’t sound like anyone else. [SOURCE: THE WEIRDEST BAND IN THE WORLD]
Label:
Illusion Production – IP023
Series:
Lernen – 5
Format:
Cassette, White
Country:
France
Released:
1985
Style:
Future Jazz, Experimental, Monolog, Sound Art, Industrial, Spoken Word
Tracklist:
A1 – No Artist Intro: What Is Submusic?
A2 – P. Marescot Diffraction
A3 – DDAA Balbique (Remix)
A4 – P. Marescot Archeology
A5 – DDAA The Last Century Music (Extract)
B1 – P. Marescot Reflooting Area
B2 – DDAA I Am A Spitfire
B3 – P. Marescot Noise
B4 – DDAA Bruit-Son
B5 – P. Marescot Print
B6 – DDAA The Last Century Music (Extract)
Notes:
Recorded at Souterrain Scientifique in June 85, except A5 recorded live at Sépulcre Church in Caen in December 84.
Interview of P. Marescot by Interconceptuelle de Documentation recorded at Souterrain Scientifique June 85.
Liner notes:
"Lernen" (Lernen en Construction) is the magazine of the Ecole Classique Anfractuosité. The texts in this magazine bring a specific analysis of the activity of creation under the angle of the crevicist theory of the dispersion of reality...
All the problems of creation about sound and image are lighted by this new vision of aesthetic...
Actually, except this cassette, all texts are in french; we prepare a translation of the best ones to get a special issue of the magazine in english...
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