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Zut Un Feu Rouge
12+ albums
Avant-GardeProgressive rockRock In OppositionAvant-ProgRIO
about
Zut un feu rouge was formed in Linköping Sweden in 1980 and the five-piece group approached music making in a rather experimental fashion. Different genres of music processed through ears that were attached to musicians on various levels of ability, produced an interesting mix of tightly arranged songs and loosely improvised chunks of sounds. The live performances had a peculiar touch, containing bits and pieces from the literary world, TV and cinema, farming and education. This was often presented in such a way that audiences either felt that they had experienced something extremely playful and spontaneous, or something terribly pretentious and calculated. One reviewer wrote: '…a music that was as highly-strung and ridiculous as the group’s outfits…' Yet another one reported: 'The feeling of being in a fabulously beautiful summer meadow that suddenly turns into a junk-yard, is something that I, for obvious reasons, have never before experienced'. Project experiments Live gigs was just one aspect of Zut’s work. Radio programmes, soundscape explorations and meticulous documentation, were other ways for the group to explore the boundaries of art and society. In terms of recording, Zut did not just focus on the conventional song and record formats. There were other projects such as the debut sound and light show 'Ur hjärtat av Sanningens Tillfällighet' ('From the Heart of the Coincidence of Truth') in May 1980 where they presented many ideas that were going to be developed
