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原文地址：https://johnkatsmc5.blogspot.com/2016/06/yamasuki-le-monde-fabuleux-des.html?m=1

Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki is a 1971 album by the Yamasuki Singers, a pseudo-Japanese concept album of pop songs, described on the sleeve of the Finders Keepers CD reissue as “a fuzzed-out-educational-multi-cultural psych-rock-opera…. proto-psychedelic hip-hop with overweight drum beats and basslines.”In 1971, two funk producers (one a Dutch-speaking Belgian named Jean Kluger, the other a Frenchman named Daniel Vangarde, the father of Daft Punk man Thomas Bangalter) create a briefly popular dance song named Yamasuki and decide to make a whole album based on that song. They learn Japanese, find a children’s choir to sing on the album, and get a black-belt judo master to shout. They’re assisted by uncredited contributers including Raymond Van Het Groenewoud and Claude Lombard. The resulting album is a psychedelic-funk-kaboki-Langley School Music Project....~

Interested? Here’s the story: 1971. Two guys. Funk producers. One a Dutch-speaking Belgian named Jean Kluger. One a Frenchman named Daniel Vangarde, the father of Daft Punk man Thomas Bangalter. Don’t hold that against him. They create a Russian-flavoured holiday-camp smash named ‘Casatchok’. Next, they create a briefly popular dance named ‘Yamasuki’. They decide to make a whole album. They learn Japanese. They enlist a children’s choir to sing. They enlist a black-belt judo master to shout. They enlist uncredited contributers including Raymond Van Het Groenewoud and Claude Lombard. They record at Madeleine Studios in Brussels. They create a really quite wonderful racket. Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki. A decade later, one of the tracks is covered by Banarama as their first single. Don’t hold that against them.There really is no easy way to make this sound like a good idea. There’s stomping drum breaks. There’s thick funk bass. There’s dirty wah-wah guitar. It’s heavy. There’s a dozen tracks stuffed with genuinely captivating melodies, tunes you’ll remember the rest of your life. There’s a bunch of French schoolkids singing their hearts out. And every now and again there’s a bloke shouting. It’s like something out of a funked-up Sesame Street, or a particularly deranged Olympics opening ceremony. It’s the catchy cousin of Jean-Claude Vannier’s legendary L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches. No doubt it’s kitsch, but it’s also freaky, groovy, thrilling, and bizarrely life-affirming. It’s absolutely essential. ..~ Yamasuki began as a dance craze in 5 steps — full-body instructions are on the album cover. Its mastermind was Daniel Vangarde, a French auteur of the concept album who skipped and pirouetted across genres and cultures with Gainsbourgian whimsy. Written mostly with his Belgian producer-partner Jean Kluger, Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki features a mesmerizing, detailed aesthetic concept: a children’s chorus singing fast-paced melodies, mostly in Japanese, tracked over heavy bass and coolly fatbacked drumming. The songs are short and tight, and the album flies by like a shamelessly fun, intricately planned costume party.

Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, Vangarde was releasing all kinds of music under a variety of monikers (including his birth name, Bangalter). He wrote and produced for other artists, and collaborated often with Jean Kluger. By the ‘80s he was making funky, born-abroad disco beats, but early in his career he tapped a unique sound with the Yamasuki album, one that has garnered a beat-savvy cult following over the years. In 2005, the label Finders Keepers reissued the album with this description: “a fuzzed-out educational multi-cultural psych-rock-opera from 1971. Proto-psychedelic hip-hop with overweight drum beats and basslines.” That’s a lot of hyphens. Part of the record’s novelty is its extreme cultural hodgepodge, but its success lies in the sleek aesthetic manifestation of an essentialized, vaguely Japanese sound. On this note, the breakdowns featuring the shrieking, ass-grilling judo master and the faux-shodō calligraphy font on the cover add a fantastic, cartoonish gleam to the project—the “fabuleux.”

Legend has Vangarde and Kluger getting completely immersed in their fantasy, learning Japanese, hiring an authentic judo master to shout at their singers. But instead of sounding overwhelmed and busy, the musical gestures and melodic modes Vangarde and Kluger swiped for their Orientalist palette combined into crisp, hooky grooves. As good music should, Yamasuki conquers its bastardized influences and kitsch. Thanks to the brevity of the songs, the entire album is engaging and consistent, but there are a few standout tracks. “Yamamoto Kakapote” riffs on a too-cute hypnotic chant, festooned with wah-wah guitar and curt, plucked strings. Listening to the song is like a slow motion Hello Kitty TV seizure. Fast-forward can be found with “Kono Samourai.” The hit single of sorts was “Aieaoa”—it’s a pleading, soulful chorus over a stone cold rhythm section and bass line that could be an archetype for the modern day Dap-Tone/Truth & Soul set. “Aieaoa” has resurfaced from obscurity on a few earlier occasions: it was retooled with Swahili lyrics in 1975 for Black Blood, and then made for an early Bananarama hit in 1981. Nevertheless, it’s hard to top the novel appeal of the original Yamasuki sound. The rest of the material on Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki hits just as hard as “Aieaoa,” and that the made up French-Japanese revue always sing together in unison is both unmistakable and mysterious—the individual never breaks out to dispel the enchanting group identity. words..

Japanophiles take note quickly - the land of the rising sun has been pilfered once again to create this utterly befuddling oddity of an album. Crafted by French mentalists Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger, ‘Le Monde Fabuleux De Yamasuki’ is a Japanese themed concept album and cuts deeper than a Hattori Hanzo Samurai sword. This is some kind of proto-hiphop breaks music but strangely enough it was coughed out of France in 1971? I don’t know what kind of vitamins these guys were popping but they were way out, and even now the psychedelic breaks heavy Franco-Japanese pop sounds utterly on its own in an overcrowded music scene. As usual with Finders Keepers, the original record is rare as hen’s teeth and the gang has managed to rope Jean Kluger himself in to remaster the original recordings, so 'Le Monde Fabuleux De Yamasuki’ has truly never sounded better. I guess this will instantly appeal to the crate-digging beat freaks among you with its seemingly endless break supply, but it’s also a twelve track collection of utterly skewed fuzzed out pop music, with a similarly outré appeal as the wonderful Selda album that appeared a few weeks back. . ...~

After February’s dazzling critical acclaim of Jean-Claude Vannier’s Serge Gainsbourg related rarity L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches LP, April will see your favourite purveyors of obscure and undiscovered vinyl treats consolidate their healthy obsession with funked-up French concept albums by releasing the mind-boggling Yamasuki LP by Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger.

For those in need of epic, exotic, metronomic, and dare I say it – proto-psychedelic hip hop that defies categorization – you need look and listen no further. An educational bubblegum multicultural psych-rock opera with lavish choral arrangements and triple-fat beats and basslines is the only way to describe this 1971 French/Japanese choreography LP which was designed to bridge the European and East Asian culture gap through the power of deep and funky music.

This release has already received a warm welcome from some of the most obsessive collectors of obscure music ranging from top producers to vinyl vultures and home listeners who are still struggling to track down the elusive music from this team of theatrical, progressive conceptualists who remain quite understandably in a league of their own.

So that’s all you need to know, apart from the added information that original copies of this record are as rare as the usual Finders Keepers hand-carved stallion stools; and for those who are asking… this IS the first time Yamasuki has been released on Compact Disc. It’s also been mastered by Jean Kluger himself from the original studio tapes.

Yamasuki is the second collectable release from Andy Votel and Doug Shipton’s Finders Keepers library label, who, with over 40 combined years of record collecting experience are dedicated to bringing an analogue catalogue of unheard, unreleased and unbelievable vintage vinyl anomalies to the comfort of your psych-starved stereo laboratories. All available on both CD and high quality, industry standard black vinyl with authentic packaging.

Anyone for ‘escargot sushi’??? – It’s time to do the ‘Yamasuki’....~