RAPSTAR

Another track from the band I was in between 1984 and 1990, Des nouvelles du front (a.k.a. News From the Front.)

Marc Fabien: Vocals, Bass Guitar
Martin Dupras: Guitars
Jean-François Mayer: Guitars
François Pompéo; Drums

Inventions [1990, Des nouvelles du front aka News From the Front]

Find Another Bath: an art book presenting images and works focusing on the other, often ignored, side of Bath.

My part in this book is to create and perform a piece for trumpet and backing track. The subject that I have chosen is that of the riots during the Luddite Rebellion, which was a rebellion led by workers in the woollen industry in protest to the advent of machines that replaced human labour. 

Bath had a rather technically advanced woollen factory based on the River Avon in the Twerton area. A group of Luddites had plotted to murder the factor owner and his foreman and then burn down the mill. However, they were thwarted by the militia sent to protect Bath. At least two other woolen mill owners moved from the towns of Swindon and Frome so that they might be safe from the threatening Luddites.

This piece attempts to project the calm, yet tenuous role of Bath as well as the riotous moments from around the country. 

I have taken the rhythms of the woollen mill's machinery, recorded in 1953, and used the rhythms and the recordings throughout the piece.

Riots Master

HEK032

Unruly
Garys
Lost Hours

Mastered by Sam @ Precise
Pressed @ Optimal
Distributed by Kudos

Inventions [1990, Des nouvelles du front aka News From the Front]

martindupras

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