L’INFONIE s/t 1969 Canadian Avant Garde Jazz Psych DUGUAY-BOUDREAU - Listen

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L’INFONIE s/t 1969 Canadian Avant Garde Jazz Psych DUGUAY-BOUDREAU

1969/Canada/Polydor Records 542.507….. here’s a rare original pressing of their first lp. The cover is in solid clean VG+ condition, there is light shelf wear and light ring wear top and bottom on back cover, there is light paper wear on both ends of the lower seam, otherwise this cover is clean and solid with no splits or delete. The vinyl is in glossy VG+ condition with a few light scuffs/scratches. The record plays great with some light occasional noise/crackle. A rare original pressing! Please check my auctions for other prog, psych and rock lp’s. Good luck and thanks for looking! I have recorded the majority of one side of this lp with no filters or sound editing. Please have a listen at this link:  ecommerceplayer.com/MediaPlayer.aspx?id=bb891688-f43b-45cd-bd04-ee2aafd2d64f

L'Infonie was born out of the meeting of two very strange men in 1967. Raôul Duguay (born February 13, 1939, in Val d'Or, Quebec), a trumpeter and poet already with two books published, met saxophonist Walter Boudreau at a poetry-music happening in Montreal. They began to improvise and an eternal friendship was born. They quickly put together L'Infonie, a contemporary jazz-rock orchestra workshop usually involving a dozen musicians (there might be as many as 24 at times) that quickly became part of every artistic happening in Montreal. Duguay and Boudreau developed a whole concept around L'Infonie, mostly drawn from oriental philosophy and all the ideologies that would later crystallize in the new age movement (of which Duguay would later become one of the strongest representatives in Quebec). The musicians would wear togas and triangular hats, and Duguay and Boudreau made numerous esoteric references to the letter O (usually with a circumflex accent) and the number three -- their philosophy is "explained" in the book Manifeste de l'Infonie, published in 1970 by the Éditions du Jour. They looked like a dadaist version of Magma.

L'Infonie was part hippie-fun anarchic mayhem, part experimental contemporary composition. The very far-out side of Raôul Duguay, who could come on stage wearing only underwear made out of bear fur and indulged in extended vocal improvisations based on the repetition of phonemes, was balanced by Boudreau's classical training and ever-growing interest in contemporary composers like Pierre Boulez, Edgar Varèse, and Karlhein Stockhausen. The band's first LP, released by Polydor in 1969, definitely belong to the Duguay-end of their spectrum. 

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MINT: as stated with no defects

NEAR MINT: as stated near Mint!, or Mint Minus, same thing, very clean with no defect to sound or visual appearance, one scuff or mark may be permitted but it will be mentioned in the description, a near Mint record looks and plays very clean

EXCELLENT: not much below near Mint, may have a delete hole and/or a minor defect or two not visually detracting from the cover, the vinyl will appear shiny and in clean condition with very minor defects not affecting the sound, still very clean and very collectable!

VG++ still a very nice copy with minimal cover wear and/or delete/splits, still visually appealing, the vinyl will retain it's original gloss and can have some minor scuffs/scratches that don't affect play very much

VG+ a little more cover/ring wear and delete, splits etc., the vinyl will still retain much original gloss with a bit more scuffs and/or scratches I may list a very rare or desirable item with a lower grade, I will try to list all defects, both cover and vinyl no matter the condition.