The BYG Deal: - Various Artists [CD]

On paper a label like BYG shouldn't have worked. A collapsed business plan salvaged from the flames of a molotov cocktail. A makeshift label built around second hand music, handshake deals, alter egos and backstabs after scratches; resulting in an unexpected explosion of positive and spiritual energy emerging from political turmoil in an unsympathetic era. Between 1968 and 1974 the combination of B, Y and G might not have been the surefire code to financial fulfillment but the indelible contribution to experimental pop, free jazz and spiritual prog rock.

Disc 1
1. Que Pouvons-nous Faire Ensemble? - Alice
2. L'automne - Fran‡ois Wertheimer
3. Ca Va Faire Un Hit - Brigitte Fontaine & Areski
4. Hip Hypnotise You - Gong
5. Ny Change Rien - Alan Jack
6. Mademoiselle Marie - Coeur Magique
7. Si Ma Chanson Pouvait - Valerie Lagrange
8. Astral Abuse - Alpha Beta
9. Rockers En Liberte - Jacques Barsamian
10. Je Veux Juste Dire - Ame Son
Disc 2
1. Rock Out - Art Ensemble of Chicago
2. Rational Anthem - Gong
3. Dirty Water - Freedom
4. Stuffed Tomato - Vangelis
5. Eclosion (Marie Aux Quatre Vents) - Ame Son
6. Mon Petit Gar‡on - Paul Semama
7. Floating - Inter-Groupie Psychotherapeutic Elastic Band
8. All I Want Is Out of Here - Banana Moon
9. Viens - Alice
10. Pacha - Coeur Magique
11. Bloody Rockers - Joachim & Rolf Kuhn
12. Mister Long Shanks: O Mother I Am Your Fantasy - Gong