Aksak Maboul - Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977) (CD)
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Retrieved from long-forgotten reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes, this collection unveils some of the meanders which eventually led to the inception of legendary experimental pop outfit Aksak Maboul, founded in 1977 and still active in 2025. The story begins in 1969, when Marc Hollander and Paolo Radoni form a band to play a strange mixture of psych rock and free jazz. Called Here and Now (no connection to the later UK band of the same name), the band soon becomes a wild tentet and, after winning an amateur contest and being involved in the whirlwind around the mythical Amougies festival, lands a record deal with then-prestigious French label BYG Records (but ends up not releasing anything). More musicians join the collective (including future Aksak Maboul members Vincent Kenis and Denis Van Hecke), which dissolves in 1972. From 1973 to 1977, Marc Hollander engages in a series of solo recordings and collabs, where the threads will make up the fabric of Aksak Maboul's music are explored. This collections' moments of free rock, improv, quasi-kraut, modular and ambient electronics, piano pieces, percussion and various experiments and sketches, hint at what Aksak Maboul later became, and at what it has not (but could have) become.
2. Riot In The Solbosch
3. Abstract And Concrete
4. Five Sketches For A Short Film
5. Lost In The Farmhouse
6. Modular Excursions at John’s
7. Kosmischer Afternoon
8. The Big Slide
9. Gyrovagations
10. Imaginary Travels With Chris
11. Proto-Kef
12. Didn’t Make It 1: Balinoid
13. Didn’t Make It 2: Angeloid
14. Java Ney
15. Didn’t Make It 3: The Missing Dance
16. Freeform Rock / Captain Crab / Softly Sometime
17. Sérénade de Paris / Miracle Fence
Track List:
Disc: 1
1. Here and Now, A Free Rock Tentet2. Riot In The Solbosch
3. Abstract And Concrete
4. Five Sketches For A Short Film
5. Lost In The Farmhouse
6. Modular Excursions at John’s
7. Kosmischer Afternoon
8. The Big Slide
9. Gyrovagations
10. Imaginary Travels With Chris
11. Proto-Kef
12. Didn’t Make It 1: Balinoid
13. Didn’t Make It 2: Angeloid
14. Java Ney
15. Didn’t Make It 3: The Missing Dance
16. Freeform Rock / Captain Crab / Softly Sometime
17. Sérénade de Paris / Miracle Fence
Record label: Crammed Disc Us
Genre: Rock
Musical Artist: Aksak Maboul
Format: CD
Street Date: December 12, 2025
TCIN: 1006435882
UPC: 0876623008637
Item Number (DPCI): 244-00-6131
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.24 pounds
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