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The name Gilbert Deflez is “ungoogleable”. Even with the help of Google’s own translation facility and armed with as many French rock encyclopedias as you can carry you’ll be hard pushed to find any cross references to Gilbert Deflez and French psychedelic pop music. After a few blind alley detours via online judo forums and French bookshops you are left surrounded by a cast of an ex-radio presenters, a Karate teacher, a science fiction author, a painter and a literary ecologist… Not a guitarist or funky drummer in sight. Of course most online record collectors would at this stage abort mission without knowing that if you combine all the above personalities you have in fact found the right guy.

For the lucky contestant fortunate enough to be stood in a record shop holding an original copy of ‘Je suis vivant, mais j’ai peur’ you might eventually find some answers in the small print. Hidden below an assemblage of school yearbook style portrait shots of ex-radio DJs and unknown actors and storytellers (that would suggest to many that you have found a spoken word LP) you’ll eventually find shots of four guys in headphones that look like musicians. If you share your record reading skills with a deep knowledge of Parisian prog pop and French rock then the 6pt text names J. Chalard, J. Mercier, P. Lhomet and M. Engel might ring some bells. With absolutely no indication on the records glossy gatefold exterior you are actually holding a rare chunk of French pop history - you’ve just found a secret psychedelic science fictional cosmic concept LP by one of the leading bands of the No-No generation.
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  • keresaspa

    Any chance of ditching the shouty capital letters?

    13 Dec 2011 Reply

  • tesco_disko

    just found out about him.. saving pennies to buy all his stuff on vinyl, it is like serge gainsbourg, mixed with moon wiring club.

    19 Oct 2011 Reply

  • Vallaor

    Jacky Chalard made this absolutely fantastic, but unfortunately widely unknown concept-album. Music style is progressive/psychodelic rock.Instead of traditional singing, there's a narrator and many different voices of different characters. Almost like in theater! In plus, one of the bonus songs is about Corto Maltese. What's not to love?

    23 Mar 2011 Reply

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