Synths Sax and Situationists

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At the dawn of the '70s in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2 an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up and start again. </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Welcome to France 1968. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Music fans in the English-speaking world are well-versed in the parallel </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Krautrock </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>scene that sprung up across the border in Germany but they are almost totally unaware of the French musical underground. There the radicalism of May '68 collided with the counterculture post-psychedelic rock and free-jazz to produce some of the most distinctive and vital music made anywhere in the '70s. </span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Synths Sax & Situationists</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> tells the story of more famous bands like Magma Etron Fou Leloublan and Gong alongside almost-forgotten groups like Cheval Fou Fille Qui Mousse and Barricade. </span></p><p></p><p></p>