Sunday, July 12, 2020

CORAIL - Laissez-Nous Refaire La Terre EP 2018

This superb EP by Corail is also part of the strictly limited 8 EP box De La Pure Came!! 32 titres Punk-rock-Cold Inédits 1977/1982. Info: "Corail is first and foremost childhood friends living in La Teste de Buch, on the Arcachon Basin, who make music together under the name of SEISM from 1974. They gave their first concert in 1975. They played at the Bergerac festival in 1977 with Bracos Band, Madrigal & Telephone. Then in Toulouse in the "Le Pied" room. They occur at Golf Drouot on March 17, 1978. They decide to go try their luck in Paris in 1977. They changed their name to Corail and then consists of: Yves Marty (solo guitar, vocals), Laurent Marty (drums, vocals), Pierre Banneau (rhythm guitar, vocals ) and Jean-Marc Levasseur (bass guitar, vocals) After many concerts much appreciated by their fans and the departure of Jean-Marc, they find, not without difficulty, in Bordeaux Martial Pain on bass guitar and Jean-Marc André says "CHINOI" who made his debut with CORAIL as a sound engineer and has since illustrated with different groups including: Dogs, Les Garcons Bouchers, Pigalle, Les Negresses Vertes, La Mano Negra and many others also talented. Little anecdote, his nickname of "CHINOI" was given to him by Michel Banneau blacksmith and father of the guitarist who seeing Jean-Marc for the first time who was wearing a small braid falling on the nape tied by a ribbon, we asked: "and who is he, The Chinese ???". The group nicknamed him from this day, Jean Marc decided to keep this nickname but without the s at the end, so "Chinoi". He died in 2015.

The group sets out again on the road in their covered Citroën HY brand tarpaulin truck which did not fail to point them out, especially by the gendarmes. After several concerts and tours with this new formula, notably several times featured in the legendary Golf Drouot (June 13, 1981 for example), Corail records a 7Inch with two songs at Studio Florida in the XIth arrondissement of Paris "Comme Un Surfer" (Chinoi does the backing vocals on the finale) and "J'ai Vécu Tout Ca". The cover photo is taken from their visit to the L.C.R. in Versailles. They will play Rose Bonbon on May 13 at Rose Bonbon (with Chrysalide), Gibus and many other rooms in the Parisian suburbs.

The group separated in 1981. Some will continue under the name of Tutti Quanti (two 12'' released in 1987). Following the contacts established for the compilation, Yves Marty made me listen to some tracks recorded in 1979. Here are three new tracks from this fabulous group, including one live, certainly in its medium, but which demonstrates all the power on stage of this combo. The title "J'ai Vécu Tout Ca" already appears on the compilation and on their first and only 7Inch released at the time. On sale alone (200 copies) or in the box with seven other EP's, a newspaper sheet with the history of the groups, and a crossword puzzle for cultivated people" (source: 45vinylvidivici).

Four decent PowerPop goodies, great stuff!


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