D.D.A.A. play Ronsard

This obscure group of radical experimental noise makers used improvisation and collage to craft strange sounds and deconstructed songs for highly creative music that is as far off the path of conventions as that of similar but more known visionaries like the Residents and Nurse With Wound. In fact, DDAA roughly began the same time as NWW in the late ’70s, started by three visual artists, Sylvie Martineau, Jean-Philippe Fee, and Jean-Luc Andre in Lion sur Mer, France. The multi-talented trio originally formed Illusion Productions to create plastic sculpture and other various artistic pursuits and DDAA became the musical arm of Illusion. Déficits des Années Antérieures, their full name, translates roughly in English as “last year’s deficit,” though perhaps more appropriate is the fact that their initials are an anagram of Dada, that pre-Surrealism art movement at the time of World War I. As none of the three were trained musicians, their music had a distinct naïve quality of outsider art and with few noticeable influences, exists on a plane of its own. Like others whose music is too uncompromisingly different to become commercial, DDAA began releasing recordings under the umbrella of Illusion Productions.

[via The Thing On The Doorstep blog]

Here is presented the cd version of DDAA play Ronsard. There are five tracks featured in it, two from the original LP [tracks 1 & 2], two from the limited 7″ [tracks 4 & 5] and one bonus track [track 3, All my mistress Marie]. As soon as I found it in Athens I decided to upload it having no knowledge of the post on The Thing On The Doorstep. I finally made my post to give a chance of obtaining it in better quality (FLAC) [to my best knowledge, it is OOP in all formats] and for the bonus track. There is much more info and sounds to be found in two of the most interesting blogs around, my friend continuo’s and The Thing On The Doorstep by fellow minded Cranio, I only recently discovered. Thank you for all these great shares.

DDAA play Ronsard

[part 1 / 2 / 3 / 4]