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RASPIGAOUS
Mauvaise Herbe
Release date :
10-24-2005
Label :
Arsenic & Champagne
Tracklist :
1. Ville De Fous
2. Top Classe
3. Intermittent
4. Le Rasta
5. Mp3
6. C'est Un Safari
7. Chars Et Soldats
8. L'Arapède
9. La Ballade De L'Huissier
10. S'échapper
11. Bienvenue
12. Ghost-Track
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REVIEW
Review written by Maxime Nordez
on Wednesday, November 02nd 2005 - 22 576 views
At a time when the French scene is undergoing a major shift (K2R under reconstruction, Mister Gang split, Sinsemilia gone off into variety), the Marseille band Raspigaous are managing to carve out a path. With two albums ("Chaud Time" and "Chiens des Quais") that sold some 15,000 copies each, the 11 musicians of Raspigaous toured all over France before working on their third album with the arts association Arsenic & Champagne. From the start of the album one notices the seriousness of the production. We remember a few tracks from their previous albums, such as Requiem (à la collaboration) or the excellent Vitrolles from their first opus. There was often a female voice; now it is invariably Lionel Achenza (Yo) who handles the lead. The album opens with an Arab ululation (a vocal onomatopoeia used in ceremonies) that launches Ville de Fous, a tribute to the Phocaean city over an Oriental chord sequence in the best of taste. The influences here range from roots to the Orient by way of flamenco.
Concrete themes
The Raspigaous like to say they are apolitical, but it is surely when they denounce that they are most effective (Chars et Soldats). Rather than parable, Raspigaous prefer chronicle, observing the situation and sometimes turning to lighter subjects. Thus Top Classe is about keeping up appearances in society (with a nod to Gainsbourg), L’arapède is the personification of a crustacean (?), and then there is La ballade de l'huissier, where one wonders whether it is an attack on or a defence of the profession. We prefer their original, concrete themes such as MP3, a rare French track tackling piracy, Intermittent, in tune with our reality, or the lucid Le Rasta, in which the group settles the matter of rastafarianism too often associated with reggae: "…I sing but I am not a rasta / Haile Selassie I does not speak to me…". One appreciates this sincerity.
In terms of composition and arrangements, there is clear progress. The tracks breathe without being overloaded. We would have liked more choruses, like the keyboard ones (Top Classe) or the tenor sax (Bienvenue), but that is a detail. The level of this third album is definitely higher and will allow the Raspigaous to continue their fight: their Raspigassos (radically anti-FN) has already supported a good number of causes (undocumented migrants, underprivileged children, M.R.A.P, Bolivia, Benin, Kosovo, D.A.L…). Even if we are left wanting a little more with this latest album (we would have liked 2 or 3 more tracks), Raspigaous do not disappoint and keep the Marseille particularities that are their strength. |
les cd tournent en boucle, rien que du bonheur. Le dernier concert vu au moulin de Brainans sentait bon le ska, le ragga et la transpiration. Mais c'est le point de vue politique des textes qui me touche le plus!
Hasta la victoria siempre!
ils sont toujours au top!!!!heuresement que le 1er opus et a nouveau dispo dans les bacs!!!!j'adorerai les voir en concert!!!vive les raspi!!!!!
j'ai vu les raspigous samedi 1 juillet a Bédarrides, franchemant c'était, je suis fan de reggae, ragga Français, ska et rap Français, franchemant même si je sauté pas dans tous les sens comme fasait les autres et que je suis réstait coller a la barière a droite de la scène (donc a leurs gauche), j'ai quant même kiffer. A bientôt les gars. Peace a tous les mecs des ruèlles et des cîtés.
MERDE AU F.N.
moi je les ai vu au moisson rock a juvigny et ss pa decu davoir fait 400km pr y aller pk les raspi cetai vraimen tro bien!!!je les conaissai pa et pui mtn jai tou leur CD!!continuez comme ca pk les groupe de reggae francai ca comence a manker!!!
j'ai vu les raspi ce wikend aux moissons rock de juvigny et ai passé la suite de la soirée dans les loges avec eux.....et+si affinités.........ya rien a rire c'est de la bombe les raspis!!!!!!!!!!
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