Kosa (Francis Manne/ Fr6) - Kosa and Friends 1987-1997

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: NB008
Release Date: 28 Oct 2022
Genre: Industrial, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Post-Punk

After the legendary French Ethno-industrial band Vox Populi! vanished into obscurity in the early 1990ees, some, like bass player, Francis Manne aka Francis Laffont aka Kosa Nostra aka Kosa aka Fr6, expanded in their their new artistic adventures. Alone or with others, he followed his multi-disciplinary sonic visions that he already displayed on the label Vox Man records, that he founded with Vox Populi! member Axel Kyrou in 1982. Together they released the famed "Audiologie" compilations, an audio fanzine featuring a contemporary outlook on the experimental electronic, and improvisational avant-garde music scene of the time. Particularly the two "Alterntative Funk: la Folie Distinguée" compilations turned into today’s collectors’ items for fans of bizarre electronic music.

Now Notte Brigante brings “Kosa and Friends 1987/97“, twelve unreleased recordings that display Francis Manne’s ongoing musical creation after the break-up of Vox Populi!. Minimal Synth, post punk, field recordings, psychedelic, cold wave, and weird proto funk are welcome thoughtful listeners into an eccentric world of pop and poetry, of experiment and groove. As the visual part was always equally important as the music for him, the cover links to Manne’s graphic work, which has also often been featured on many Vox Populi!, Bain Total, or Vox Man Records. A venturesome collection that documents an unexplored universe of a visionary French avant-garde musician and his vivid peer group.

Tracklist:
A1 - Pole Sud (intro cut)
A2 - Cinq minutes
A3 - The Starting Signal
A4 - Le Masque de la Mort Rouge
A5 - Pole Sud (interlude cut)
A6 - No news goud news
B1 - I'dont on tools 1984
B2 - The Center
B3 - Il faut les PTG tous
B4 - Bonnus i junggles
B5 - Le Preche me seche
B6 - Over medium heat

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