DANDELION...RARE 70s FRENCH BAND

well, here's one of my incontestable favorites and an album i don't really see on the internet with much gratuity. dandelion was the primary musical outlet for jean christophe graf. in 1979 they released a privately pressed record of 300 copies, exclusive to france. given that kind of obscurity, it's an obvious guess that their work is decidedly hard to come by. miraculously, i found a record of this album a couple of years ago for 20 bucks, and it's something very dear to me. dandelion's music is often classified (when you can find information about them, rarely) as psych-folk, which is another one of those awful, inefficacious titles that is given to privately-pressed music of this era, and is particularly askew because it sets up expectations that have nothing to do with the album itself. "psych-folk," that is a tremendous misnomer to say the least, as this record is very modest in what it sets out to achieve, definitely leaning more towards the "folk" end of the spectrum. there are organ flourishes here and there, along with homemade effects that color the songs, but alleging that it's "psychedelic" in some way is kind of overstating the case. this record has a quiet beauty to it, and its somewhat haphazard construction lends itself a favorable comparison to the first raincoats album (definitely traverses the same mood, i think). dandelion is perfect late-night listening, and something that provides me with an unbearable amount of joy. whatever grievances i have simply fall away when i listen to it.

this was reissued somewhat recently by a spanish label called guerssen, and though one still needs to be predacious when tracking it down, it can be found and should be grabbed if it all possible.

download dandelion's self-titled record

http://rapidshare.com/files/276751360/DANDELION.rar