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According to the venerable Mutant Sounds blog, Ame Son “were one of the earliest prog bands to cross-pollinate Free-Jazz with psychedelic music, especially on the full length “Catalyse,” released in 1970. Many tracks begin in an avant free-form jam that eventually develops into more structured song and rhythm, with lyrics either in French or English, and then slips back into another wild free-form freak-out. Prominent flute, drugged-out vocals, and fuzzed-up electronic guitar lend this a definite late-’60s underground vibe, though because of the originality of the material and the quality of musicianship, it doesn’t sound dated like similar releases from that era.”
Most of the members of Ame Son played with Daevid Allen of Gong when he could no longer play with Soft Machine. With Allen they were Bananamoon, but when he left to form Gong they changed the name to Ame Son. Did I ever post the Red Noise album? If I did (and I’m too lazy to check my own archives), I probably mentioned the name Patrick Vian. He was in Red Noise and he recorded an album called Bruits et Temps Analogues, which featured Ame Son guitarist Bernard Lavialle. See, isn’t prog just the most incestuous music genre ever?
There’s a CD reissue of Catalyse with bonus tracks, but who gives a fuck. We’re vinyl snobs. We need the original BYG/Actuel recording to get our dicks hard amiright?
Ame Son
Catalyse
(BYG, 1970)
MediaFire DL Link
01. A1 (Seventh Time Key / I Just Want To Say)
02. A2 (Eclosion / Marie Aux Quatre Vens)
03. A3 (Coeur Fou / La Globule / Le Mal Sonne)
04. B1 (Reborn This Moring On The Way Of… / Unity)
05. B2 (A Coup De Hache / Les Sables Mouvants)
06. B3 (Hein, Quant A Toi / Comme Est Morte L’Evocation / Hommage)
