ARTIST: Marc Moulin
TITLE: Placebo Years 1971-1974
LABEL: Blue Note
GENRE: Jazz
BITRATE: 203kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-06-12
RIP DATE: 2006-06-12
Track List
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01. Balek 4:19
02. Humpty Dumpty 2:32
03. N.W. 6:41
04. Polk 3:22
05. Showbizz Suite 7:34
06. S.U.S. 4:20
07. Aria 4:53
08. Stomp 7:32
09. Red Net 5:39
Release Notes:
Belgian keyboardist Marc Moulin has been a jazz craftsman for more than three
decades. A leader in the field of acid jazz, he began his career by playing the
piano in the '60s throughout Europe. During the following decade, he established
a band known as Placebo. By 1974, he had made a trio of albums, influenced by
such masters of jazz as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. One of those early
releases, Sam Suffy, has withstood the test of time and is still popular decades
later with aficionados. Before the '70s had passed, Moulin switched gears;
working with the band Telex, his style shifted to electro pop. With bandmates
Michel Moers on vocals and Dan Lacksman on synthesizer, he put out five albums
that spawned hit singles like "Rock Around the Clock," an electro pop version of
the song originally made famous by Bill Haley & the Comets, and "Moscow Diskow,"
which won fans in discos as far away as Australia and Brazil. By 1992, Moulin
again pulled a switch, this time turning to a sound that was more ambient with
the release of Maessage. As the calendar flipped forward to a new millennium,
Moulin flipped back in time to the place where he'd started: jazz. He signed
with Blue Note, a label fond of pushing boundaries, which allowed him to freely
combine his proclivity for the electronic sound with his jazz roots.