Chance, James -& Les Contortions-
Incorrigible
The new James Chance album Incorrigble! is the fi rst genuine album by the pope of No Wave for a long time. It was recorded in Brittany and New York from the end of 2011 to summer 2012. Produced by Frank Darcel (Alan Stivell, Etienne Daho, Marquis de Sade, GNR, etc.); The CD refers basically to the golden hours of the funk jazz inventor but leans too on all the new exciting musical material emerging from the contemporary Big Apple. The basic tracks were recorded in Rennes (Bretagne, French capital of inventive rock!), with The French Contortions, a band that plays along with James live in Europe and Japan for fi ve years now. That powerful combo (Pierre Fablet on guitars, Jack Auvergne on bass and Alex Tual on drums) follows the leader wherever he wants to go or prospect with his marvelously crazy sax and those lyrics that punch you where needed. Most of the overdubs were made in New York with guitarist Ivan Julian (ex-Richard Hell and The Voidois), Norman Westberg from the Swans, jazzman sax player Robert Aaron, and the astonishing trumpet player Mac Gollehon (Temptations, Gil Scott Heron, David Bowie, etc.). If youve never been Dislocated or visiting Terminal City, time has come! And dont forget youll have to be Incorrigible too