LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE "C COOL"(CANADIAN CANUSA) 1968   THICK CVR IS SOLID VG+   NO SPLITS LITE WEAR  HEAVY DISC IS VG+ TO VG++   FEW MARKS BUT HECK ITS FROM '68!  RARE ONE     FREAK FEST

ONE VERY KNOWEDGEABLE REVIEWER HAD THIS SAY TO SAY

Singer Francois Guy quit Les Sinners in October,1968. His next move was to form La Revolution Francaise with ex-Sinners Georges Marchant on bass, drummer Louis Parizeau and former Les Janguars guitar player Jean-Guy Cossette. Signed by singer/producer Tony Roman's small CANUSA label the group debuted with the 1968 single: SIDE TWO IS A STRANGE EXPERIMENT IN PSYCHEDELIC RAMBLINGS....REAL PEOPLE STUFF

- 1968's 'Pierre-Paul Ladouceaur' b/w Isabelle (Le Cote Commercial)' (CANUSA catalog C-372)

The single sold well enough for CANUSA to finance a supporting album - 1968's "C. Cool". Produced by drummer Parizeau, the set showcased Guy in the role of front man, handling lead vocals and responsible for all of the material. Compared to the Les Sinners catalog these tracks were clearly an attempt to adapt to changing audience tastes. While the first side wasn't exactly lysergic drenched wildness, it was clearly more experimental than previous releases, tracks like 'Et La Terre Tournera' incorporating a tasty hard rock edge while retaining the earlier group's commercial sound. Even conventional ballads like 'Coule L'Amour' and the Baroque-tinged 'Pierre-Paul Ladouceaur' reflected a modest psychy feel complete with pounding keyboards and drifty, acid influenced atmospherics. Yeah, 'Bingo' was little more than a studio throwaway, but having one loser on side one wasn't a major crime. The side long title track was a different story. Set against strumming acoustic guitars with occasional sound effects, isolated electric guitar runs, and even a sitar interlude, the song featured a weird, meandering mixture of spoken word narratives and isolated song fragments. Guy sounded pretty intense (or perhaps simply stoned). Anyone out there who speaks French want to enlighten me on what was going on? Certainly weird and not something you were likely to want to hear on a regular basis. By the way all six songs were performed in French.  

All told it held up fairly well against Les Sinners catalog, but they'll be some folks out there who enjoy the album's quirkier aspects.

Track listing

A1

Et la terre tournera

A2

Coule l'amour

A3

Pierre-Paul Ladouceaur

A4

Ta famille

A5

Bingo

B1

C. Cool