1st VINYL EDITION OF CHEVAL FOU

1st VINYL EDITION OF CHEVAL FOU

Band name: Cheval Fou

Album title: Cheval Fou

Format: Vinyl LP (180 gr., splatter, poster cover 60x60)

Other specifications: Strictly limited pressing of 300 numbered copies, remastered, with bonus tracks (download card), including 50 copies with 6 printed Fouart cards

Cat. no: PQR028

File nearby: Group 1850, Amon Duul, NYL, Dashiel Hedayatt, Gong, Pyramid (Ger), Beat of the Earth, Rotomagus, Chêne Noire

Cheval Fou was one of the most important, prolific and authentic psychedelic outfits that thrived on the margins of the French underground during the first half of the 70s. A precursor to the by now more well-known and equally outstanding space-rock formation NYL, Cheval Fou’s salvaged recordings are a testament to the purest made-in-Europe free-form, freak-out psychedelia. Just picture an amalgamation between Group 1850’s Agemo and Amon Duul’s Phallus Dei, with Dashiel Hedayatt dropping in for a quick jam, and you will catch a glimpse of that horse-headed ballerina in far-out space delivering drones with playfully sinister ferocity on a flying chess-board. Not at all surprisingly, as this is what Cheval Fou did from dusk to dawn over their 5-year long life that was so intensely creative, and so good to be true that it just had to remain the distant echo of an entire scene’s unconscious. As a flamboyantly proud homage to those momentary (int)er(r)uptions of lavaic flux bequeathed to us by Cheval Fou, we enshrined them in this limited edition of 300 numbered copies, in splatter vinyl, an open stargate to bonus tracks, and all of the above sheltered in a fold-out poster cover. And for the inner circle of our collector friends, only 50 copies include the Fouart Gallery, featuring 6 printed ‘Postcards from the Edge’.

AVAILABLE via PQRDirect:

Cheval Fou - Cheval Fou LP (lim. 300 copies), Splatter vinyl, Poster cover (60x60), Bonus tracks

https://pqrdirect.my-online.store/product/cheval-fou-cheval-fou-lp-lim-300-copies

SPECIAL EDITION WITH 6 PRINTED CARDS, Lim. 50 copies

https://pqrdirect.my-online.store/product/cheval-fou-cheval-fou-lp-lim50cards

For more info visit:

Discogs

https://www.discogs.com/release/29552650-Cheval-Fou-Cheval-Fou

Interview with Michel Peteau at It's Psychedelic Baby

https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2024/01/cheval-fou-interview-new-release.html?fbclid=IwAR3_r7AOie-olWkCT2aX6YZ8BYr5PPAwCbGMglg_LAxKf243sY8CcVTXpHA

Psychedelic Scene

https://psychedelicscene.com/2024/02/21/cheval-fou-psychedelic-legacy-a-limited-edition-vinyl-release/?fbclid=IwAR0Zk9MeusOfTa4AC9BdhCRi1CbipO9Xvf0scqmcAu6cK6kS5EcGLHe6B0A

YouTube

https://youtu.be/bNibULPYGB4

The complete package

Unfolding the poster cover

https://www.facebook.com/pqr.disquesplusquereel/posts/pfbid0FGzdhmqdRvA7C48o6ScGLu8c2xLdDMGor4F4uMiUKoqqqSgDgkwxs8wySx9XNDMPl

YouTube review

Fouart Gallery postcards

Review @ Shindig Magazine (No. 150)

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