L’Enfance Eternelle
彼らの音楽を初めて聴いたのは、2007年にInfrastitionからコンピレーションアルバム「1984-1991 (2xCD, Comp)」がリリースされたタイミングでした。第一印象から曲のクオリティーの高さを感じました。彼らの音楽は素晴らしいので、彼らの音楽が広く世の中に知れ渡たらないのは不思議であると同時に残念すぎる、正直、私の中では、クオリティーの高さはJoy Division The Cure以上だと思います。
L’Enfance Eternelle was born in November 83. The story starts quite fastly as a gig is found before the first note to be played. September 85 sees a second TV on FR3, then come the recording of a new 4 track demo tape, issued to 500 copies and quickly sold out. On May 17 1986 a gig at La Bourse Du travail in Lyon with the band Gestalt is recorded, to be the first album. 1200 peoples attend to theis Jour des Fous. From September to December 1988 the second album is recored, La Terre des Innocents. The release party accored at le Truck in front of 1200 persons for a party together with their old chaps Opéra de Nuit on April 15 1989. The last demo, never finished is the end of the band in December 1990. Bertrand “Cheap” goes on with Bob’s Your Uncle and The Camelia Street Blury Experiment in Paris. Fabrice Della-Malva and Jérôme “Dien” Bideaux make an hardcore band: Garlic Frog Diet. Christophe Neau goes for jazz rap with Lex Léo. Pat aka DJ Pee found his own band Le Peuple de l’Herbe, his brother Kriss doing the sound for concerts with the succes we know. Marquis opens a trendy piercing shop on Lyon. Franck “Kreppux” goes on with theatre and chanson. Pascal “Bô Mouton” Prenez band’s photographer becomes a syndicalist. Jérôme Margotton founds the acid jazz band Mo’ Jazz Beats, and then moko (www.moko.fr). Denis Lecarme runs into French chanson with L’Orchestre de Poche and nowadays under is own name www.denislecarme.com
Some more coldwave of the French variety for you folks today…The band is L’Enfance Éternelle, formed in 1983. The band rose to prominence in their home country, appearing on television and touring with similar bands Opera De Nuit and Babel 17, but hardly broke further than France, a plague that most of coldwave (and minimal) bands fell to. The band would release two short LPs during their tenure, and demoed material for their third record before splitting in 1990. Members formed their own bands, including the likes of Garlic Frog Diet, and Bob’s Your Uncle.
I’ve uploaded their first record, 1986’s Le Jour Des Fous, which was recorded live in concert, crowd noise and all.(http://www.systemsofromance.com)