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Zodiac

by Barney Wilen

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited to 1,000 copies. Remastered from Barney Wilen's personal copy of Zodiac.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Zodiac via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $26 CAD or more 

     

1.
Poissons 02:47
2.
Verseau 02:28
3.
Capricorne 02:35
4.
Sagittaire 02:18
5.
Scorpion 02:53
6.
Balance 02:48
7.
Vierge 02:50
8.
Lion 02:25
9.
Cancer 02:44
10.
Gémeaux 03:34
11.
Taureau 02:36
12.
Bélier 02:53

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We Are Busy Bodies announces the officially licensed reissue of the 1966 cosmic, free jazz album Zodiac by French saxophonist and composer Barney Wilen. The album’s astrological theme and Robert Crumb-esque comic-book style cover art, illustrated by the renowned cartoonist Siné, marks it as a European parallel to the burgeoning counter-cultural happenings of the same period in the USA.

The reissue also offers tantalising glimpses of a projected animated tie-in film that never was. Wilen's friend, the experimental artist and photographer Jean Larivière, who during the 1960s would share projects with Salvador Dali and assist Chris Marker, had concocted a surreal superhero screenplay featuring living landscapes and abominable monsters which he wished to create as an animated representation of Zodiac. A synopsis of the screenplay survives along with sketches and photographic inspirations which have been lovingly compiled by We Are Busy Bodies as an insert to the vinyl edition.

Originally released on the Disques Vogue label in 1966, the album has been restored and remastered from Barney Wilen‘s personal copy of the album.

The album was recorded a few years after performing on albums and European tours with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis.

credits

released June 10, 2022

Tenor Saxophone: Barney Wilen
Drums: Jacques Thollot
Vibraphone, Piano: Karl Berger
Double Bass: J.-F. Jenny-Clark
Photography: Jean Larivière-Brochard
Engineer: Claude Perrin Terrin
Cover: Siné
Remastered By: Noah Mintz
Art Restoration/Insert Layout: Steve Lewin
Insert Text and Images: Jean Larivière-Brochard/Eric Warner

© Ⓟ We Are Busy Bodies. Thank you to Patrick Wilen.

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