Un Peu De L'ame Des Bandits

Avant-garde rock, from Belgium. Not a popular musical genre but if you're interested in Henry Cow, or any of the Rock in Opposition bands, check this out this record from 1978.Largely centred around multi-instrumentalist Marc Hollander (later to create Crammed Discs), the band is notably supplemented throughout by ex-Henry Cow Fred Frith and Chris Cutler. For the second half of the album - their influence is particularly huge - as the 22 minute long Cinema could easily be passed off as a long lost Henry Cow piece - similar instrumentation, mixing composed and improvised moments, unusual, unpredicatable time signatures building steadily into glorious crescendos.The first half is of a lesser quality I think but does culminate in a hilarious frantic homage to punk, overlaid with bassooon and bass clarinet.