Various Artists - Midnight Massiera: The B-Music Of Jean-Pierre Massiera (2022 Reissue)
Eighteen sacred psychedelic suppositories from the laboratory of mad scientist and scalpel-happy pop mutilator Jean-Pierre Massiera. Includes the rarest and most sought after fuzz funk, spooked surf and interplanetary prog from ‘The French Joe Meek’ and all his schizoid splitpersonalities and freakish friends - The Maledictus Sound, Chico Magnetic Band, Visitors, Human Egg, The Pirhana Sound and Jesus himself.
Let Finders Keepers introduce you to some old friends of theirs - Charlie Mike Sierra, Jean-Pierre Areisam, JPM and Co. Erik, The Horrific Child, Jesus, Les Maledictus Sound, Human Egg... This might sound like they’re flicking through the imaginary LP racks in the record shop from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ or perhaps congratulating the runners up in a Halloween fancy dress competition but for the previously uninitiated you have just been ordained into the congregation of the many split personalities of one Mr. Jean-Pierre Bernard Massiera. Bow down to the nine-headed monster as he mutates and shape-shifts back through time to his humble beginnings in a Buenos Aires province ravaging and pillaging the music of the European people for his own twisted benediction along the way.
This might, as intended, sound a little bit dramatic but if there is one single ingredient that gives the eccentric Jean-Pierre Massiera his distinct flavour it’s a large dollop of drama. Add sprinklings of schizophrenia, shock, myth and macabre and you are on the way to a Bmovie broth with an acquired taste that has, like all the best cheese, taken over thirty years to mature to perfection. Like all the best monsters, his split personality is the key to his infamy and the secret of his blood sucking success.
This is why Jean-Pierre Massiera is (un)commonly known for two key periods in his career which, like a worm, can be split down the middle to thrive and flourish independently. To cut a long story short, Massiera is, above all, a lover and purveyor of musique fantastique, and is willing and able to hijack whichever stylistic vehicle that passes him buy in order to do feed his lust. In the earlier part of his career he honed his sordid craft amongst psychedelic circles in Nice and Quebec. From late 1972 onwards he moved to Antibes and started a disco revolution and became an in demand cosmic record producer. For years, prog rock obsessives and disco aficionados have wondered if there was two unrelated freak merchants called Jean-Pierre Massiera but, in this rare instance, exploito-maniacs from both sides of the cosmic coin are united by the work of this singular, single-handed monstrous music manufactory.
Remastered and available once again on deluxe black vinyl since the initial Finders Keepers limited edition 2009 pressing.
TRACKLISTING
Visitors - Visitors
S.E.M. Studios - Ivresse Des Profondeurs
Jesus - L’Electrocute
Les Chats - Bizarre
The Starlights - Mao Mao
Basile - Itubo Del Anno
Chico Magnetic Band - Pop Or Not
Les Maledictus Sound - Kriminal Theme
Jesus - Songe Mortuaire
Basile - Engins Bizarres
Human Egg - Onomatopaeia
Les Monegasques - Psychose
Chris Gallbert - Sing Sing
Hermans Rockets - Space Woman
Piranhas - La Turbie Pirhanienne
Human Egg - Egg
Les Maledictus Sound - Inside My Brain
After Life - (Le Secret De) La Vieille Dame
PRODUCT DETAILS
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Finders Keepers
Condition: New
Genre: Rock, Psych & Garage
Format: Vinyl LP
Cat Number: FKR022LPX
Released: 8th July 2022
Eighteen sacred psychedelic suppositories from the laboratory of mad scientist and scalpel-happy pop mutilator Jean-Pierre Massiera. Includes the rarest and most sought after fuzz funk, spooked surf and interplanetary prog from ‘The French Joe Meek’ and all his schizoid splitpersonalities and freakish friends - The Maledictus Sound, Chico Magnetic Band, Visitors, Human Egg, The Pirhana Sound and Jesus himself.
Let Finders Keepers introduce you to some old friends of theirs - Charlie Mike Sierra, Jean-Pierre Areisam, JPM and Co. Erik, The Horrific Child, Jesus, Les Maledictus Sound, Human Egg... This might sound like they’re flicking through the imaginary LP racks in the record shop from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ or perhaps congratulating the runners up in a Halloween fancy dress competition but for the previously uninitiated you have just been ordained into the congregation of the many split personalities of one Mr. Jean-Pierre Bernard Massiera. Bow down to the nine-headed monster as he mutates and shape-shifts back through time to his humble beginnings in a Buenos Aires province ravaging and pillaging the music of the European people for his own twisted benediction along the way.
This might, as intended, sound a little bit dramatic but if there is one single ingredient that gives the eccentric Jean-Pierre Massiera his distinct flavour it’s a large dollop of drama. Add sprinklings of schizophrenia, shock, myth and macabre and you are on the way to a Bmovie broth with an acquired taste that has, like all the best cheese, taken over thirty years to mature to perfection. Like all the best monsters, his split personality is the key to his infamy and the secret of his blood sucking success.
This is why Jean-Pierre Massiera is (un)commonly known for two key periods in his career which, like a worm, can be split down the middle to thrive and flourish independently. To cut a long story short, Massiera is, above all, a lover and purveyor of musique fantastique, and is willing and able to hijack whichever stylistic vehicle that passes him buy in order to do feed his lust. In the earlier part of his career he honed his sordid craft amongst psychedelic circles in Nice and Quebec. From late 1972 onwards he moved to Antibes and started a disco revolution and became an in demand cosmic record producer. For years, prog rock obsessives and disco aficionados have wondered if there was two unrelated freak merchants called Jean-Pierre Massiera but, in this rare instance, exploito-maniacs from both sides of the cosmic coin are united by the work of this singular, single-handed monstrous music manufactory.
Remastered and available once again on deluxe black vinyl since the initial Finders Keepers limited edition 2009 pressing.
TRACKLISTING
Visitors - Visitors
S.E.M. Studios - Ivresse Des Profondeurs
Jesus - L’Electrocute
Les Chats - Bizarre
The Starlights - Mao Mao
Basile - Itubo Del Anno
Chico Magnetic Band - Pop Or Not
Les Maledictus Sound - Kriminal Theme
Jesus - Songe Mortuaire
Basile - Engins Bizarres
Human Egg - Onomatopaeia
Les Monegasques - Psychose
Chris Gallbert - Sing Sing
Hermans Rockets - Space Woman
Piranhas - La Turbie Pirhanienne
Human Egg - Egg
Les Maledictus Sound - Inside My Brain
After Life - (Le Secret De) La Vieille Dame
PRODUCT DETAILS
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Finders Keepers
Condition: New
Genre: Rock, Psych & Garage
Format: Vinyl LP
Cat Number: FKR022LPX
Released: 8th July 2022