Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes

ha ha, Ouzo

Un jour... la mort
Musique de Patrice Moullet - Paroles de Catherine Ribeiro

Un jour, la Mort, cette grande femme démoniaque
M'invita dans sa fantastique demeure
Depuis longtemps elle me guettait, m'épiait
Usant de ses dons, de ses charmes magiques
Elle cambrait sa croupe féline
Fermait á demi ses paupières lourdes de sommeil
Au-delà desquelles brillaient deux yeux de guet-apens
Le souffle court, les lèvres entrouvertes
Elle murmurait : viens chez moi, viens, viens,
Approche, viens t'enrouler dans mon repos
Mon repos - repos - repos - l'éternel repos.
Alors, coupant mon emblème-cordon-ombilical
J'absorbais trois tubes de somnifère réparateur.
Ainsi commença le tourbillon de la décadence
Semblable à celui de la terre qui me portait
Les gouvernements-tueurs étaient toujours en place
Le napalm brûlait nos maisons et nos champs
Les riches s'éclataient devant les classes laborieuses
Partout ce n'était que tumulte, cris de guerre
Je courais, cherchant à protéger les enfants
Les enfants, merde, pourquoi faire des enfants
Les écoles maternelles sautaient à la dynamite
Les châteaux de cartes espagnois s'écroulaient
Victims de malformations congénitales
Seuls, restaient debout, victorieux
Les Elysées, les Maisons-Blanches, les Kremlins
Les crèmes caramel, les crémes au chocolat -
Dites-moi la Mort, Chère femme, Belle Mort
Vous me serrez d'un peu trop près, trop fort
Je ne suis pas vraiment lesbienne, savez-vous?
Vos bras qui m'encerclent gênent ma respiration
Votre parfum me donne la nausée -
Dites-moi la Mort, Chére femme, Belle Mort
De ce côte-ci de l'au-delà
Où se trouve le chemin de l'Amour -
Sur terre, je refusais le mensonge, la vanité d'Étre
Ici, les dactylographes tapent sur des bongos
D'horribles rythmes qui foudroient mes entrailles -
Dites-moi la Mort, Chère femme, Belle Mort
Renvoyez-moi de ce côté-là de la Vie
Je voudrais connaitre l'amour de Pierre-le-Récalcitrant
J'ai encore besoin de donner et de recevoir
J'ai besoin de me battre pour un autre monde
Je veux connaitre l'An 01 dont parlaient nos amis
Je veux encore monter des bonshommes de neige
En hiver, sur les toits blancs des usines
Je veux faire sauter les autoroutes
Et me promener dans les hautes herbes des campagnes
Je veux embrasser les garçons et les filles
A pleine bouche, baiser leurs lèvres chaudes
Je veux m'enivrer de la salive de mon amour
Je veux aimer et mourir de mort-Naturelle
Comme tout le monde, les deux pieds dans mes sabots -
Redonnez-moi la Vie, la Mort, Belle Mort
Et je vous ferai un enfant

inside gatefold image: collage made from image of a sudzy woman bathing in a barrel answering a telephone mounted on the side of the barrel, looking over her shoulder at a grainy shot of a vietanemese mother wading through a muddy river with her children

'combien de temps encore pourrons-nous ajourner l'inevitable?' - Henry Miller, Le temps des assassins

Still no news of any Ribeiro reissues? Shameful!

I kinda got the impression the old reissues (on Spalax) sat around for a loooong time, they're probably not in a hurry to reissue them again? If they're still in business.

reissues were on Mantra. but, yeah, doubt it's a high priority for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D76DnIEZMzM

thanks for that@

been seeing this video linked a lot lately on FB and other places (not that i mind)

looking forward to this
http://musique.fnac.com/a4093592/Catherine-Ribeiro-N-2-Ame-debout-Paix-Le-rat-debile-et-l-homme-des-champs-Coffret-4-CD-CD-album

after having come across their music through these

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/catherine-ribeiro-alpes-paix
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/catherine-ribeiro-alpes-theme-en-bref-silen-voy-kathy
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/catherine-ribeiro-alpes-no-2

and a trio of livesets that went up on Dime a while back.

Box looks good. Shame not to have '2bis' on there.

How are those live sets? What dates?

I have me some:

Catherine RIBEIRO & Alpes -- 'Pop Club' 1972-74 (FM)
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - Paris 1973-05-28 (FM)
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - La Courneuve 1973-09-09 (aud)

All worth hearing I guess, but Paris takes the cake by some way.

Think those are the same dates. Not listened to them in a while, meant to over the weekend but didn't get around to it.

From what I recall they were pretty good though.

Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - Paris 1972-02-03 (fm)

and

Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - Paris 1973-05-28 (fm)

are up again on D!me, but I see that people are already clued in above. I'm excited to hear these!

you know what I'd never heard before last month?

http://www.discogs.com/Catherine-Ribeiro-Alpes-Theme-En-BrefSilen-Voy-Kathy/release/1690760

non-album 7" from 1970, released around the time of 'No. 2'

she wastes no time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhW52-LPcB0

There were another load of CR + Alpes sets upped to Dime over the last week. Mainly from 76-77 though. Plus reseeds of the '72-73 stuff.
Haven't heard the late 70s stuff yet though.

I was a but disappointed by the box set since it came out very quiet & left me hoping it might spark interest from Esoteric or somebody.
Good to have the lps though.

I thought I'd posted here after getting the box. But doesn't look like it, just on the lead up to. Wound up getting it through Amazon.fr only time I've used that branch.

From French television in 1972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbK7ZUKZowY#t=11

closeup of the guitar percuphone @ 4:20. such a crazy invention it really helps to see it -- turns any guitar into an acoustic sequencer / arpeggiator. one of the things I love the most about their albums is that while the initial impact of their sound is psych / freeform, it's all being held doiwn by those relentless, driving plucked metric 8th notes, it is total techno

version of 'alpes 1' from ame debout in that video is not the album version at all, hope someone can liberate the full length version of that someday

yeah man that is an amazing fragment of 'alpes 1'. percuphone mixed way loud so you can hear (and watch) changing the chords / hitting different harmonics in tandem with the organ player. percuphone was frequently mixed way too low on the records, probably because it's so relentless but man it's nice and loud in these clips.

I did end up buying that box of the first four Alpes records. Mini sleeves are wonderful and sound is good. If it had the 2bis album it'd be perfect.

Wow, great find! Still not sure what exactly the percuphone is and how it works though, even after seeing it! It is to Alpes what the electric jug is to the 13th Floor Elevators.

Still not sure what exactly the percuphone is and how it works though

Glad I'm not the only one.

the initial impact of their sound is psych / freeform, it's all being held doiwn by those relentless, driving plucked metric 8th notes, it is total techno

Thanks MP for crystalizing why I'm obsessed with this band's sound

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81iNPmlyxWL._SL1400_.jpg

first time the 2bis album has been released on cd?

also been noticing some recent lp reissues of the alpes albums, though not sure how legit they are.

i think maybe it was on CD in Japan? (as everything seems to be)

i had kind of forgotten about these records. they are great. i will listen to them again today.

American reissue of the first three! Vinyl only.

https://shop.mexicansummer.com/product/catherine-ribeiro-alpes/

Plus a nice little bonus from Circuit des Yeux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfzfN2TFjVE

Glitch on my part, not *the* first three obv when you're starting with No. 2

I was just looking up the reissues I'd seen reviewed in some of the monthlies and saw that box set Integrale des albumes originaux which I'd somehow missed hearing about.
So was wondering what the sound was like.

I got the 4 lp box set back in 2012 and found it a bit quiet.

So wondered about this. I assume its decently remastered etc

holy shit the guitar and organ work on Paix blows my mind

I just listened through the bunch of lps they have on Spotify and the late 70s ones sound pretty good.
THey have the first lp the one with Bis and then the 3 after Le Rat Debile
Looking forward to hearing the box set. Hoping the sound is good, the material is pretty good throughout the 70s, not quite as sure about the 1980 one.