Vidéo-Aventures | tl

Not so much a band as a side project supergroup comprised of some of the leading figures of the late-'70s/early-'80s French avant-garde, Video Aventures was a loosely defined collective under the leadership of musician, artist, and author Dominique Grimaud, whose first band, Camisole, had been a synthesizer duo somewhat like a French response to Cluster. Video Aventures was a much less clinical affair, with spontaneous improvisation and collaborative musicianship the guiding principles. Influences ranging from Karlheinz Stockhausen to Captain Beefheart can be glimpsed in the dazzlingly eclectic music, but overall, Video Aventures falls into the amorphously defined Rock in Opposition...