DDAA

LES AMBULANTS LP

Illusion Production

with 12" insert

DIY weirdness from these radical french noise-makers from the 80's, somewhere between art-punk, avant-garde and minimal-synth.

Some info on the release: Beautiful early LP from french Deficit des annees anterieures self-produced on their own illusion production label back from the 80's. D.D.A.A. are very well known for their collaborations with Nurse with wound and SPK and from being one of the most productive project appearing on nearly every cassette compilation of the 80's experimental / industrial / synth circuit!! Their work appears signs of experimental craziness / synths / noises / voices and one can say that DDAA had created their own unique style back in the 80's!! This one shows up hardly ever for sale, don't lose this chance to grab this baby!! Released on the legendary Illusion Production label from Caen, france, the same label that released works of Legendary pink Dots and the great Sensationnel le Journal compilations where appeared works of P16.D4, Germain Hubert Ales, Ptose Production, Rock Critics and Etant Donnes, Pascal Comelade, Absolute Body Control, XX Century Zorro, Bene Gesserit, Vivenza and others.

This obscure group of radical experimental noise makers used improvisation and collage to craft strange sounds and deconstructed songs for highly creative music that is as far off the path of conventions as that of similar but more known visionaries like the Residents and Nurse With Wound. In fact, DDAA roughly began the same time as NWW in the late '70s, started by three visual artists, Sylvie Martineau, Jean-Philippe Fee, and Jean-Luc Andre in Lion sur Mer, France. The multi-talented trio originally formed Illusion Productions to create plastic sculpture and other various artistic pursuits and DDAA became the musical arm of Illusion. Déficits des Années Antérieures, their full name, translates roughly in English as "last year's deficit," though perhaps more appropriate is the fact that their initials are an anagram of Dada, that pre-Surrealism art movement at the time of World War I. As none of the three were trained musicians, their music had a distinct naïve quality of outsider art and with few noticeable influences, exists on a plane of its own. Like others whose music is too uncompromisingly different to become commercial, DDAA began releasing recordings under the umbrella of Illusion Productions, starting with a 7" 45, Miss Vandam, in 1979. Research into various traditional ethnic music resulted in the EP Adventures in Africa in 1981 and the LP Action & Japanese Demonstration the next year, with hand-painted covers and elaborate packaging and inserts. Bernard C joined the lineup to play on the 1984 album Les Ambulants and continued on and off with them until the early '90s. Throughout the '80s and '90s, the group continued to put out records and tapes, as well as perform, and even exhibit artwork in various galleries in Paris and Nice. Starting with the 1992 CD Nouveaux Bouinages Sonores (Dans la Période), DDAA has further enhanced its pursuit of strange sounds with the invention of an imaginary culture, the Maracayace, a theme explored more fully on the three-CD Baggersee and the full-length La Conference Maracayace, as well as live shows. DDAA continues to forge on in the new millennium with its highly creative artistic vision.

Condition: Cover and vinyl lie in mint condition, this is an unplayed stock copy.

Tracklist

SHIPPING & PAYMENT

Shipping: Shipping for this LP is 7 gbp airmail in Europe / 9 gbp for the rest of the world
Registered mail: +3.50 gbp
Insurance: optional
Combined shipping: BIG discounts
Payment: Paypal 
Packaging: I am a collector too and i know