Le Brame des Fous

Daniel Laloux : drums
Joseph Racaille: piano

These two lovers of the absurd in the Lewis Carroll style manage to come out of what is called the pataphysics art movement, which seems more like some kind of recuperation.

Daniel Laloux is highly graduated, he took drums courses, released a square record in 1964, accompanied himself with a guitar, gave inspiration to Daevid Allen and played with the band Gong in 1970. He accompanied the jazz saxophonist Marion Brown, played with 'Un drame musical instantané', had fun with Racaille and took part in 'Tambour 99' in la Villette festival in Paris.

Joseph Racaille's music became well known thanks to the opening ceremony of the winter Olympic games. He began with Luc Perrin (alias Luc Etienne, who was in charge of a rubric in a satiric French weekly newspaper), he is indeed an expert of the spoonerism and in a totally different genre, of Erik Satie! His first band was ZNR, in which you recognise the musical influence of Satie. He composed for various famous French artists and wrote an opera in the memory of Cleopatra.

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