Les Primitifs du Futur with Cafe Accordion Orchestra
05/01/2010 - 8:00pm
Doors Open:
7:00pm
Legendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and guitarist Dominique Cravic founded Les Primitifs du Futur in 1986, craving real Parisian musette instead of the poor imitations they heard in variety shows. The members of Les Primitifs du Futur brilliantly blend world-musette and Django-style guitar into old-fashioned originals, sounding like they've stepped right out the '30s. Musette, a style that developed in France at the turn of the century before exploding in Paris in the 1930s and '40s, mixes popular folk dancing from Auvergne with swing, gypsy inflections, and polka. Musette is, by definition, dance music. Even now, chances are that the orchestra at any popular ball on Bastille Day will play musette along with a choice selection of tangos, pasos, and fox-trots. The Primitifs' leader, guitarist Dominique Cravic, wrote most of the material and gathered a crack team of experts on such instruments as "the jazzo-flute" , "the xylophone", "the cabrette"or "the musical saw". The band pays tribute to musette, mixing it up with as many dance styles as possible, leading to unholy dancefloor experiments ("Fox musette," "La java viennoise," "La valse chinoise") that call to mind a Parisian fantasy in which '40s-style gangsters hang out with gypsy bad boys. Although R. Crumb is no longer performing with the band, with their compelling live shows and three albums of original compositions Cocktail d'amour, Trop de routes, trop de trains and World Musette, the Primitifs du Futur remain at the forefront of the contemporary renaissance of “chanson française”.
To warm things up, the Twin Cities' very own and fine musette group Cafe Accordion Orchestra will provide an opening set.
Tickets are on sale now from the Cedar Ticketline (612-338-2674 ext 2), Cedar outlets, and online at Ticketweb. $15 advance, $18 day of show Limited seating=room for dancing!
Legendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and guitarist Dominique Cravic founded Les Primitifs du Futur in 1986, craving real Parisian musette instead of the poor imitations they heard in variety shows. The members of Les Primitifs du Futur brilliantly blend world-musette and Django-style guitar into old-fashioned originals, sounding like they've stepped right out the '30s. Musette, a style that developed in France at the turn of the century before exploding in Paris in the 1930s and '40s, mixes popular folk dancing from Auvergne with swing, gypsy inflections, and polka. Musette is, by definition, dance music. Even now, chances are that the orchestra at any popular ball on Bastille Day will play musette along with a choice selection of tangos, pasos, and fox-trots. The Primitifs' leader, guitarist Dominique Cravic, wrote most of the material and gathered a crack team of experts on such instruments as "the jazzo-flute" , "the xylophone", "the cabrette"or "the musical saw". The band pays tribute to musette, mixing it up with as many dance styles as possible, leading to unholy dancefloor experiments ("Fox musette," "La java viennoise," "La valse chinoise") that call to mind a Parisian fantasy in which '40s-style gangsters hang out with gypsy bad boys. Although R. Crumb is no longer performing with the band, with their compelling live shows and three albums of original compositions Cocktail d'amour, Trop de routes, trop de trains and World Musette, the Primitifs du Futur remain at the forefront of the contemporary renaissance of “chanson française”. 
