Fascinating collection of work from Jean-Louis Brau, a member of the pre-Situationist Lettrist International alongside Gil Wolman and Isidore Isou. Brau was an artist, writer, soldier, radical, sound poet, brothel owner and drug dealer with a biography that’d make Blaise Cendrars blush. In 1973 he gave up all artistic work completely. This album compiles a bunch of the surviving recordings, including two tape pieces that were played during Isou’s conference at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1961, two pieces first published in the Poesie Physique book that came with three singles, one by Brau, one by Dufrene and one by Wolman, and a wild 1972 track with freakout Wildman drumming – “Turnback Nightingale” - that first came out in Poesie en question, Opus International. The sonics run from grainy sound poetry and tape work that pre-dates the Chocolate Monk aesthetic by a bunch of decades through barbaric non-musical actions and convulsive epiglottal gymnastics. Pretty amazing. Edition of 350 copies.