Nirvana - Remembering Le Futur [Recorded 1973-1976] (2016)

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Nirvana - Remembering Le Futur [Recorded 1973-1976] (2016)

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Formed in 1970 in Martigues, Nirvana is quickly emerging as the great hope of the local scene. Their psychedelic music is perfectly in tune with the times and opens the door to all the venues and festivals in the region. In 1973, it is the consecration when the group wins the springboard of Golf Druot. The national press is now interested in the combo that goes up to the first part of prestigious group like Martin Circus or "Amon Düül II". An album project is born and the tours follow each other throughout the year 1974. The critics are laudatory but the band, faces financial difficulties and will end up throwing in the towel in 1976 after recording 2 titles in the studio.
40 years later we invite you to discover these titles as well as 3 other songs recorded in Live. What is striking when listening to these tapes is the musical quality of the band. Nirvana is the proof that there existed in France at that time, a psychedelic scene that had nothing to envy the Anglo Saxon. The sound of Nirvana is darker and more brutal than that of many groups claiming Flower Power and it is in this sense quite representative of the specificity of the French psychedelic scene of the time which unlike England is developing with us, in a context of struggle against bourgeois conformism that offers no space of freedom for counterculture and artistic experimentation.
40 years after its separation, we are proud to highlight the work of one of the most important groups of the French underground scene.