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jean-pierre massiera - midnight massiera - the b-music of jean-pierre massiera - finders keepers - vinyl

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Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock

1. Visitors - Visitors
2. S.E.M. Studios - Ivresse Des Profondeurs
3. Jesus - L Electrocute
4. Les Chats - Bizarre
5. The Starlights - Mao Mao
6. Basile - Itubo Del Anno
7. Chico Magnetic Band - Pop Or Not
8. Les Maledictus Sound - Kriminal Theme
9. Jesus - Songe Mortuaire
10. Basile - Engins Bizarres
11. Human Egg - Onomatopaeia
12. Les Monegasques - Psychose
13. Chris Gallbert - Sing Sing
14. Hermans Rockets - Space Woman
15. Piranhas - La Turbie Pirhanienne
16. Atlantide - Egg
17. Les Maledictus Sound- Inside My Brain
18. Afterlife - Sevret La Vielle Dame

Let us introduce you to some old friends of ours... Charlie Mike Sierra, Jean-Pierre Areisam, JPM and Co. Erik, The Horrific Child, Jesus, Les Maledictus Sound, Human Egg... This might sound like we're flicking through the imaginary LP racks in the record shop from A Clockwork Orange or perhaps congratulating the runners up in a Halloweeen fancy dress competition but for the previously uninitiated you have just been ordained into the congregation of the many split personalities of one Mr. Jean-Pierre Bernard Massiera. Bow down to the 9 headed monster as he mutates and shape-shifts back through time to his humble beginnings in a Buenos Aireian province ravaging and pillaging the music of the European people for his own twisted benediction along the way. This might, as intended, sound a little bit dramatic but if there is one single ingredient that gives the eccentric JPM his distinct flavour it's a large dollop of drama. Add sprinklings of szichophrenia, shock, myrth and macabre and you are on the way to a B-Movie broth with an acquired taste, that has, like all the best cheese, taken aver 30 years to mature to perfection. Like all the best monsters, from the Centaur to the Minotaur to Dr. Jeckyl & Mister Hyde his split personality is the key to his infamy and the secret of his blood sucking success! This is why Jean-Pierre Massiera is (un)commonly known for two key periods in his career which, like a worm, can be split down the middle and thrive and flourish independently. To cut a long story short Massiera is, above all, a lover and purveyor of Musique Fantastique, and is willing and able to hijack whichever stylistic vehicle that passes him by in order to do feed his lust.

In the earlier part of his career he honed his sordid kraft amongst psychedelic circles in Nice and Quebec. From late 1972 onwards he moved to Antibes and started a Disco revolution and became an in demand cosmic record producer... For years Prog Rock obsessives and Disco aficionados have wondered if there was 2 unrelated freak merchants called Jean-Pierre Massiera, but, in this rare instance, exploito-maniacs from both sides of the cosmic coin are united by the werk of this singular, single handed monstrous music manufactory!

Another way to dissect the Histoire De JPM would read like a fantastic comic book. He started off as a musical scientist who was affected by chemical fallout in World War 2 - he spoke to Jesus, went crazy and became a mad scientist. He then created a strain of mutant piranha fish which gave birth to a world of horrific monsters who assisted him in his murderous merriment. In the end he finds a giant egg and finally makes contact with aliensÉ That would be the end of chapter 1 and this is the era that Finders Keepers will focus on for this compendium (In chapter 2 JPM would be kidnapped by the Aliens and taken to planet disco to have sex with green goddesses and snort space dust on intergalactic nudist beaches where he probably still resides) In the worldly, derelict, laboratory of Dr. Jean-Pierre Massiera we are surrounded by decaying fish fins, test tubes, fuzz pedals, echoplex units and the lost souls and ambitions of aspiring young pop groups... I think your gonna like it here.