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Kosmose

First Time Out (Charleroi 1975) (LP, Clear)

Label: Sub Rosa

Format: LP, Clear

Genre: Psych

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**Limited edition 350 copies clear vinyl**  Kosmose were a Belgian cosmic collective formed in Charleroi and active across the 1970s, a loose and more or less leaderless group of local players anchored around multi-instrumentalist Alain Neffe (later of Insane Music and the Belgian wave underground) and bassist Francis Pourcel, with the young Guy Marc Hinant, later a co-founder of Sub Rosa, among their number. First Time Out captures a session recorded and mixed in March 1975, entirely unreleased until now.

By this point the band had drifted from their earlier cosmic, raga-leaning playing toward something rawer and noisier: long improvised pieces made with a handful of synths, flute, bowed bass, primitive rhythm boxes and no drummer. Cosmic, certainly, but dirtier than clean and homemade rather than high-tech, the music arrived wrapped in a full spectacle of strobes and abstract slide projections. A vivid relic of a lost Belgian underground. Clear coloured vinyl.

Details
File under: Experimental
Cat. number: SRV437
Year: 2018
Notes:
Clear vinyl, never-before-released recordings of live improvisations from 1973-78, pre Pseudocode. Limited to 350 copies Inserts only available with LP sold by Alain Neffe (initially announced on the cover sleeve but not included with the factory releases) Copy of the concert poster (A4) hand-signed by the three members of the group!

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