""May 1968. The students occupy the Sorbonne. An atmosphere of festival and freedom is spontaneously created. The old university becomes a small-scale model of the society of the future. To bolster the festival some young people bring their instruments, set up and play... Spring 1968 ends, but the band continue playing their music, keeping the ideas of the May movement alive. The band is called Red Noise.""
"With such auspicious beginnings it's hardly surprising that Red Noise would go on to become one of the most legendary bands of the era. Writing in 72, Jean-Pierre Lentin (himself a member of the band Dagon) called it "the first underground band... a symbol, the unrivalled reference for a whole new generation of groups". Red Noise was both band name and manifesto; its music a sonic explosion of insurgency."
Red Noise formed in May 1968 when anarchist and communist musicians played their first gig in the occupied Sorbonne courtyard. The group continued after May, keeping May movement ideas alive through insurgent music that became both band name and manifesto. Patrick Vian led the group with bass by Daniel Geoffroy, drums by Serge Cattalano, and sax by Francis Lemonnier. Patrick Vian, son of Boris Vian, embraced amateur attitude over technical polish, insisting nerve and presence mattered. The band quickly earned legendary status and became a seminal underground, pre-punk reference for a new generation.
Read at The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
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