from the LP The Strange World of Bernard Fevre, L’Illustration Musicale Records, 1975Having major Spring showers here today, it even began to snow for a bit; anywhere else that would a downer, but out here weather like this is practically a novelty for crissake, so I’m enjoying the hell out of it---soaked in the tub, ate a savory warm lunch, smoked some dank wonderful, and now I’m zoning out to the enchanted sounds of Bernard Fevre. The recent rediscovery of so-called library music has proven to be rather fruitful for all the beats-heads out there, although I detest the genres given name; to steal a line from the wonderful Stereolab, how about calling it “space age bachelor pad music”? Whatever you want to call it, these spacey slices of electrical atmospheres are marvelously hypnotic, particularly when one is stoned and gazing hazily out the window at lightly falling wet snow (you know, those big-ass snowflakes the size of a half-dollar). Mr. Fevre went on to much underground acclaim in the dance music world as ‘Black Devil’, but it’s his early experimental stuff that really gets us geeks wet!
