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Alex Barbier chante... (vinyl 10")

Alex Barbier, Pascal Comelade - Alex Barbier chante... (vinyl 10\
Recording of a duo that used to perform only once a year at the Plouc festival in Fillols (France), with Pascal Comelade at the piano and toy-piano and the comic artist Alex Barbier singing, in drag, female realist songs from the 1920s.
Alex Barbier (1950-2019) was a French comic book author and painter and occasional singer, performing in drag, as a "chanteuse réaliste".
French-Catalan pianist and composer Pascal Comelade (born in 1955 in Montpellier) is an unclassifiable and highly respected figure of the French music scene, author, since the late 1970s, of a vast and influential discography, both perfectly labyrinthine and absolutely coherent, mixing rock'n'roll, traditional and popular music, electronic influences, minimalism and toy instruments, which have become his trademark and his unique sound signature. He has collaborated with Richard Pinhas, Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal, Marc Hurtado, Jaki Liebezeit (Can), Robert Wyatt, Faust, PJ Harvey...
 
published in May 2019
 
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