Search - Bertrand Burgalat :: Sssound of Mmmusic

Wildly Eclectic Psychedelic Lounge Space Guitar Rock

L. S. Slaughter | Chapel Hill, NC | 03/04/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wow. The gods sorta dumped this one in my path last week and I haven't been able to put it down. The opening track alone is enough to just make you trash everything after 1969 and become a retro-nik bobbing up and down in a Joshua Light Show. It's all oddly current, somehow. I suppose good things just don't die. Imagine your favorite Pink Floyd/Iron Butterfly passages fed through some herky-jerky speed metal but infused with the spirit of Italian lounge film composer Piero Piccioni and then you have an idea of what lies herein. Track 1 is worth the purchase price alone: it sounds like Fellini on psychedelics.Permanent rotation."

L'observatoire is great!

Liz | san francisco, ca | 01/22/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard of Bertrand Burgalat on a Banana Republic CD (SOIREE). They put L'OBSERVATOIRE on it (track number 11 hehe) and I looooved it! It's kind of got a sleepy, lazy, modernish laid back tone; it's nice and relaxing for a cruise down a scenic road, or for just listening to at home. so yep, here I am! This is a great CD...gotta have it!"

Trippy modern French pop

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 09/08/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A brilliantly executed set of dense, exuberant high-tech mix'n'match pop, made by the French producer who has sculpted some of April March's glossier recent efforts. This is a seamless merger of retro-'60s melodicism and bouncy trip-hoppish pop, similar to Katerine or Dominique A, but a bit less cerebral and a bit more likely to induce actual booty shaking. The chorus on "Sunshine Yellow" ("...white powder/biochemical reaction...") really gave me the creeps when I heard it following the post-September 11th anthrax mail scare, even though the song is just about doing the laundry. Great record... recommended!"