Gainsbourg percussions

"1964's Gainsbourg Percussions, was Gainsbourg in peak-exotica mode. To contrast Confidentiel`s drumless guitar and bass lamentations, Percussions inverts that formula entirely with a song cycle structured around orchestrated thickets of booming and clattering percussive figures. This is Gainsbourg's love letter to the drum, and while at times overly kitschy, the record remains a gorgeous, sensual affair.It controversially features a trio of songs liberally "interpolating" arrangements from Babatunde Olatunji's Drums Of Passion, itself an album of modernized Nigerian chants ... Elsewhere on the album, Gainsbourg crafts tunes from Brazilian samba school rhythms, Angolan themes, and a few percolating hot jazz tunes. This was an honest attempt to show just how truly modern these "primitive" song structures were, and while the industry standard of uncredited samples and interpolation remained in effect here, the album on the whole displays a sincere love for its sources...Percussions was the end of the first period of Gainsbourg's career, and it's one hell of a funeral".

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