"SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING ACTS, SUCH AS UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANÉ, FORMED LATER IN THE 1970s"
Sympa de se retrouver cité dans The Guardian sous la plume d'Agata Pyzik à propos du livre de l'Australien Ian Thompson "Synths, Sax & Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978" dont j'ai rédigé l'une des deux préfaces (l'autre est de Steven Stapleton, a.k.a. Nurse With Wound). L'enquête la plus poussée sur le sujet, pour l'instant seulement en anglais...

Extrait du Guardian :
“Thompson thinks this proto-punk attitude as well as ideas driven from Situationists – the French intellectual revolutionary movement whose ideas fuelled May 68 – were key. They accepted the ephemereality of what they were doing – the point was to do it. Some of the most interesting acts, such as Un Drame Musical Instantané, formed later in the 1970s but the scene had largely died off by the early 80s. Post-punk came in, and France’s underground rock scene fizzled out. Yet its legacy is still tangible. “It cleared the way for French rock music to take a decisive turn away from slavishly copying English and American musicians,” says Thompson. “It was the very beginning of the process that eventually led to the international success of a specifically French style of music in the 1990s, with bands such as Daft Punk, Air and Phoenix.”
The scene’s most attractive quality, in the end, was not individual songs but the potential for true freedom of expression, Thompson says. “France’s musical revolution was a true experiment, not just a declaration.”

La référence aux hôpitaux psychiatriques est un concert de Birgé Gorgé Shiroc à la clinique de La Borde en 1975 et le festival qui s'y tint l'année suivante, où je rencontrai Bernard Vitet pour fonder Un Drame Musical Instantané fin 76.