Published:
September 2, 2015
Experimental French artist Ghédalia Tazartès releases a new album on Isabelle Magnon and Quentin Rollet's record label, Bisou. With 'La Bar Mitzvah Du Chien', the French outsider artist delivers an exciting blend of tape loops, industrial grind, musique concrète and throat singing.
Tazartès sings and plays all the instruments and samples, recorded in the very same room as all his other solo records since 1974. The album was performed, produced, and recorded for Bisou in 2012. Tazartès's son, Lalo, can be heard on "Don't Cry for Me, Mamma."
''I would say I’m more Dada than Surrealist. It is not a conscious decision. You don’t decide you’re going to become a poet or a painter, life will turn you into one. You can decide to study a lot of piano, but to invent music or improvise is not a decision, but an incapacity'', Ghédalia Tazartès states in an interview for the German publication Electronic Beats.
Born in Paris in 1947, Tazartès started singing when he was twelve-year-old, creating his own language. He began a professional career in dance, theatre, cinema, while still giving some occasional concerts and publishing a few albums, each one of them an acclaimed masterpiece.