Jacques Berrocal / Dominique Coster / Roger Ferlet - Musiq Musik FLAC

Re-issue box set of this, Paralleles and Catalogue coming on Rotorelief later this month. Sadly the cover art looks quite different.

Review from my Futura feature in Audion #46 (2002)...
I recall Jac saying that a reissue of this was very unlikely as the tapes had been lost, but it would seem that he was wrong. Cheekily self quoted as the bad boy of French jazz, this was Jac's debut recorded shortly after a musical exploration tour of the Middle East, which aside from its brevity is a remarkable album.
Not a real solo, however, the album was actually credited to the three performers: Jacques Berrocal (trumpet, percussion, trombone, flute, shenai, vocals, harmonium), Dominique Coster (trombone, percussion, vocals, explosives), Roger Ferlet (cornet, vocals, percussion, string instruments), and it is pretty much an album of understatement, relying extensively on ethnic percussives (things like bells, rattles, shakers more so than drums) generally muted winds and other subtle instrument and voice. It's not really jazz either, it's something else, definitely Berrocal bric-a-brac music though, in a world of its own, except maybe comparable, at times, to the weirder more experimental stuff from the Ohr label, like Anima, Annexus Quam or Limbus, or maybe an understated AMM Music with an ethnic edge. Aside from that, its restraint is its greatest asset...