ROLAND BRIVAL - Creole Gypsy LP Neo Crust Tons of tape delays /

Tons of tape delays / field recordings and electronic manipulations

Obsolete is the complete expression of all of these elements spread out over twelve songs that stand alone but also flow into one another over the course of thirty-six minutes

dark but playful

Sweeney laid down a steady pulse on hand drums

Ruin released two albums during their original run

ROLAND BRIVAL - Creole Gypsy LP Neo Crust Tons of tape delays /Musician, poet and painter Roland Brivals 1980 album is a lost classic of Caribbean spiritual jazz. Recorded with a group of Martiniques top musicians, and combining the bl percussion traditions of the island with free flowing saxophone, rhodes flourishes and languorous bass, the album was rejected by Rolands label of the time, and was ultimately self released in miniscule quantities to a small local audience. Themes of crole identity and colonial