Jacques Berrocal ‎– Parallèles (d'Avantage ‎– dav 01 - France - 1976)

Debut solo album by French avant-gardist and multiple-horn skronker Jac Berrocal. This is the one with the original Rock 'N' Roll Station, memorably covered by Nurse With Wound in 1994. Back in 1976, Berrocal got on his bike (in the studio, to record the sounds of it as an instrument) and left the words to lengadary British rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor.
The result, accompanied by a pedaling bass note, was five minutes of surrealist brilliance. Elsewhere on Parallèles, there's a sample of the free jazz improvisations on trumpet, trombone, cornet and more that Berrocal and his main collaborators Roger Ferlet and Michel Potage were playing at the time. One track, Post-Card, adds guitar and a spoken-word part, and was apparently recorded in a pigsty.
Lastly, the side-long Bric-a-Brac (To Russolo) adds some more free-improv acquaintances on cello, bass, piano and several more horns. Towards the end, that static bassline from Rock 'N' Roll Station comes back in, as do elements of its lyrics, among other things that intrude hilariously into an English-language biographical note of Luigi Russolo. "

Record is NM / Sleeve is strong VG++ to EX (Clean with a few stains and very light cover creasing)