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01. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Surrounding Seas
02. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Light Flight
03. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Blazing Skyline
04. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Leavin My Place
05. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - The Cool Brain
06. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Black Safari
07. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Panorama (CD-only)
08. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Gates of Pop Empire
09. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Dreams in the Wind
10. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Touch as Much
11. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Strange Form
12. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - The Onion Belt
13. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Rainbow Rays
14. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Like the Wind You Are
15. JEAN-PIERRE DECERF - Litha
ARTIST
TITLE
Spaces Oddities: 1975-1979
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BORNBAD 068CD BORNBAD 068CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/31/2015

Jean-Pierre Decerf was born in the Paris suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1948, lived in Paris until 2003, and now lives as a hermit in a remote village in the Touraine. From the early '70s to the mid '80s, this self-taught musician composed about 20 albums of production and library music with generic cover art and titles (Out of the Way, Keys of Future, Pulsations, etc.) that evoke interstellar travel. These experimental discs, made with love, humility, and rudimentary means, had no ambition other than to accompany other peoples' images. By exhuming these obscurities from the dustbin of history, Born Bad Records have decided otherwise. Archaeologists with an agenda, they seek to give Decerf the renown he deserves: that of an innovator whose rhythmic, synthetic compositions inspired the harbingers of the French touch (Air comes to mind), and were sampled by many East Coast rappers, including the Wu-Tang Clan. CD version includes exclusive track "Panorama."