CAFÉ MOZART - Illusion Cassée EP 2018

I think it's time to pay tribute to a label that publishes absolutely fantastic & rare records and also present in the net with lots of details & information to that: Cameleon Records from Pantin (near Paris). This little piece of wax is a perfect example and part of the strictly limited 8 EP box De La Pure Came!! 32 titres Punk-rock-Cold Inédits 1977/1982. Let's read some interesting basics about the band: "Café Mozart was founded by Gilles, Fever and Marc at the end of 1978 at the university of Nanterre and from the fusion of two small incomplete groups: on the one hand guitar (Bruno), bass (Fever) and drums (Philippe), and on the other, keyboard (Marc), guitar (Gilles) and vocals (Frédérique). Half of the group comes from Rueil Malmaison, the other half from Maisons Laffitte & Paris. They rehearse at Fever's in Rueil (Special dedications to parents who eat their meals a few years ;-). March 28, 1979 Gilles, Fever and Christophe Nick (at that time student and journalist at Huma, then journalist at Rock'n'Folk and Actuel) organize a concert at the university bringing together elements of the punk and new scene - wave emerging from Paris and the suburbs: Gare Du Stade (pre Ici Paris), E330, Modern Guys, and Feed Back, the concert ends in riot on the campus of the university, in particular because of the confrontation between two bands, fans of Gare Du Stade led by Farid (the future first skins of Les Halles) and a group of the Autonomous movement who intervenes on stage during the Gare du Stade set, initially to make an announcement.... Bottles of beer flying, general fight, destroyed gear and van, tear gas, cops and Molotov cocktails extra, this concert will paradoxically sign the birth certificate of Café Mozart who, from this moment, decides to invest more seriously the new wave wave punk scene in Paris and to stop college. In March 1981 Gilles left the group to join Kamikaze on the Pigalle stage with notably Francis who comes from E330 and Ariane Gilles' girlfriend. The band will be part of the series of groups which regularly play Rose Bonbon (Taxi Girl, Indochine, Les Civils etc.). But the military service (still compulsory) will break the dynamic, Philippe leaves for the army to finally leave the group in September 1981, then it's Bruno's turn to go, and he too, after a few reversals, will definitively leave the group in January 1982. At first, after Fabrice, the drummer of the Civils, who ensures the concerts, it is Tonio (Studio drummer who played with the singer Busy) who will replace Philippe on the drums, and finally , Hugues Chichin (Gazoline), brother of Fred. Café Mozart decides to continue in a formation of four without guitars (Keyboard, Bass, Drums, Vocals). They will then take a guitarist again (Patrick). The new formation records new titles but nothing will come out. The Mozart adventure ends at the end of August 1982. They will all stop the music gradually, except Philippe who still continues to play, with his group Provisoire and other groups" (source: 45vinylvidivici). So now enjoy four rare cool synth-post-punk goodies from a fine French combo.

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