TRAVELLING Voici La Nuit Tombee LP/1973 France/Psych Rock/Prog/Soft Machine

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TRAVELLING 'Voici La Nuit Tombee' LP (France, Souffle Continu Records, Catalogue #FFL012) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2015 Souffle Continu Records label vinyl edition of rare 1973 Psych Rock/Prog album by Travelling (originally released in 1973 on the Futura Records label.) For fans of the BYG/Actuel series and Shandar Records releases of the 60's/early 70's French Free Jazz and Avant-garde music underground.

(NOTE: LIMITED BLACK VINYL EDITON OF 500 COPIES ONLY!)

Souffle Continu presents the seventh release in its series of reissues from the catalog of the cult French underground Futura label. Travelling was a keyboard-based trio that probably represents best what the Futura's RED series was about -- jazz, rock, and experimental inquisitiveness. Often described as the French answer to the Canterbury scene, Voici la Nuit Tombée contains echoes of Soft Machine, Caravan, and Supersister, especially on the sidelong opening track, "Voici la Nuit Tombée." It's the album's tour de force, with its fuzz bass, distorted organs, piano jazz, and complex meter. This is the first-ever vinyl reissue of this pioneering 1973 prog jewel, fully licensed by Futura founder Gérard Terronès. Presented in a 350-gram reverse-printed sleeve with obi strip. Limited edition of 500.

"Much touted as a French answer to Caravan, this was always one album I was eager to hear, as when the French go Canterbury-esque they always do it with that strangely Gallic finesse (c.f. Ame Son, Moving Gelatine Plates, Forgas) adding something uniquely their own. In essence, aside from the Caravan edge, they were much more a Soft Machine cum Egg type trio, with slightly Robert Wyatt-like vocals from Yves Hasselmann (also on piano and organ) and an almost Supersister feel in the rhythm section: Jacques Goure (bass) and Roger Gremillot (drums).

The album's tour-de-force is side one's Voici La Nuit Tombee itself, at 19'35" it's long for a French work of the period, which strongly features Hasselmann's distorted keyboards as the focus in a complex suite and the only actual song of the album at its core. The five tracks that covered side two were all different, Flamenco (not a Flamenco at all) kind of predates Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom feel with its multi-piano phrasings and sleazy jazzy beat and Wyatt "daddly-da-de-- daaa" before it goes off on a complex classical walkabout, moving seamlessly into Passo to the jazzy Soleil to the mini keyboard symphony Tout Compte Fait to lightly Magma edged Shema where we return to the theme of Flamenco, which pretty much means side two was a one-side work as well.

Distinctly 70's pioneering prog (recorded on 5 February 1973, to be precise), it's both quaintly dated and simultaneously fresh today, and a definite "must hear"." - Audion #46

- First vinyl reissue of French keyboard-based trio Travelling's 1973 album Voici la Nuit Tombée, a pioneering prog jewel.
- The seventh release in Souffle Continu's series of reissues from the catalog of the cult French underground Futura label, fully licensed by Futura founder Gérard Terronès.
- 350-gram reverse-printed sleeve with obi strip.
- Black LP (FFL 012LP) limited to 500 copies.  

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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