NU CREATIVE METHODS – Nu Jungle Dances (LP-1978)

Label: d'Avantage – DAV 02

Format: Vinyl, LP / Country: France / Released: 1978

Style: Free Improvisation, Abstract, Experimental, Space-Age

Recorded in 1978 as an LP on the French label D'Avantage.

Cover (Artwork) by – B. Pruvost

Producer – Dragon Mordoré

Recorded By [Prise De Son] – Daniel Deshays

All composed by Nu Creative Methods

A  -  Nu Jungle Folies ............................................................. 19:34

B1 - Trumpeter Bullfinch .......................................................... 2:38

B2 - Brikhebana ....................................................................... 7:08

B3 - Dervanis Kamela .............................................................. 6:49

Artists:

PIERRE BASTIEN / BERNARD PRUVOST –

contrabass, performer [seïl-korde], piano [préparé], electric guitar, zither [cithare], alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone, cornet [à pistons], shenai [shennaïs], oboe [hautbois pakistanais], flute, clarinet, horn [trompe à coulisse], horn [trompe pakistanaise], vocals, gong, cymbal, bells [cloches, grelots], idiophone [metallophone], tape [bande son], gong [seïl-gong]

Nu Creative Methods was formed by Pierre Bastien & Bernard Pruvost in the 70's. 
500 copies of their first Lp, Nu Jungle Dances, came out in 1978, on the d'Avantage label. A very few copies were actually sold, despite some excellent critics. The music featured on Nu Jungle Dances is improvised, played with Asian, African and Western instruments. To cut short a long story, let's say the result is human, exotic, and free. Because of the Lp musical qualities, of its scarceness, because of Pierre Bastien and Bernard Pruvost individual works, and maybe because Nu Jungle Dances is on the Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) list, this Lp became cult.

The title of the album Nu Jungle Dances is the very explicit wording of the LP contents. The duo played over twenty instruments, saxophones, prepared piano, double bass, oboe and horn Pakistan, glockenspiel, flute ... From this bric-a-brac (odds and ends) are born as the sounds evoking fairy creations on percussion various of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, People in Sorrow including an Ecuadorian forest atmosphere, sounding animal included too. We hear birds and frogs, a saxophone may borrow the language of the primate like the pachyderm. Nu Creative Methods are at the heart of free music, improvised music totally free and natural. It draws on several continents, not even limited to human activity.

Another interesting information:

The original design was to be black and white, but because of an printer mistake, the cover of this edition of 1978. is white and pink...?!.............

If you find it, buy this album!