Acid Mothers Guru Guru Invasion

Mani Neumeier is the drummer from the classic kraut or prog or whatever band from the seventies. He fits tremendously well with the Acid Mothers. In fact, his performance makes this disc stand out from the discog of the hyper prolific Acid Mothers.

Even further, I just saw Acid Mothers Guru Guru live, and Mani's energy, skill, and intuition were a pleasure to experience. He had the entire room entranced. This collaboration is a killer psychedelic set. I call it a collaboration because Kawabata and Atsushi tailor their playing to Mani's jazzy, kraut drum playing so expertly. It is a great merging of styles. Hopefully, if you enjoy this, you will search out some of Guru Guru's seventies long players to catch Mani in his youth with his original band. Or maybe I'll have to post a Guru Guru album next.
from important records website:

Acid Mothers Guru Guru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's holy Acid Mothers Temple. The result is a fiery fantasy filled, loud/soft, colorful trans-generational psychedelic collaboration.

The Acid Mothers Guru Guru started in a spontaneous session in March of 2006 in Nagoya, Japan. When the improvisation commenced the passionate excitement was clear to all in the room and it was then that this special psychedelic trio began. A Japanese tour was planned, an album was recorded and this recording is the fruits of this mutual musical admiration.
While all involved will admit that this is a dream collaboration, it was the Acid Mothers Temple guys who were worshiping Guru Guru in their teens. The Acid Mothers Guru Guru is two generations of psychedelic rock joining forces for the 21st century.

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Musique Des Grenouilles

This album is breathtaking, sensual, and cool. Its sexy, provocative, and complex. Gainsbourg's voice and style are present, but its Jean Claude Vannier's subtle and original fusion of rock, funk, and jazz in the arrangements that make this LP a masterpiece.

To download the album, go to the comments page. You can do that by clicking the title of this post. Then copy and paste the link into your web browser. Just follow directions and you will eventually have it.

Here is a little summary on the artist:
"Serge Gainsbourg was the dirty old man of popular music; a French singer/songwriter and provocateur notorious for his voracious appetite for alcohol, cigarettes, and women, his scandalous, taboo-shattering output made him a legend in Europe but only a cult figure in America, where his lone hit 'Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus' stalled on the pop charts -- fittingly enough -- at number 69."

Here is a professional review of the album:
"You don't need to speak a word of French to understand Histoire de Melody Nelson -- one needs only to look at the front cover (with its nearly pornographic portrait of a half-naked nymphet clutching a rag doll) or hear the lechery virtually dripping from Serge Gainsbourg's sleazily seductive voice to realize that this is the record your mother always warned you about, a masterpiece of perversion and corruption. A concept record exploring the story of -- and Gainsbourg's lust for -- the titular teen heroine, Histoire de Melody Nelson is arguably his most coherent and perfectly realized studio album, with the lush arrangements which characterize the majority of his work often mixed here with funky rhythm lines which underscore the musky allure of the music. Perhaps best described as a dirty old bastard's attempt to make his own R&B love-man's record along the lines of a Let's Get It On (itself still two years away from release), it's by turns fascinating and repellent, hilarious and grim, but never dull -- which, in Gainsbourg's world, would be the ultimate (and quite possibly the only) sin." by Jason Ankeny

here are the translated lyrics to the first song:
http://www.eggparm.com/gainsbourg/melody.html
Its about Serge and his Rolls Royce running into the subject of the album, Melody Nelson, while she is riding her bike.
You can read the rest of the translations here: http://www.eggparm.com/gainsbourg/monproprerolecontents.html#Melody

Enjoy!