Weidorje. 1978 France

In business circles, you'll often see the term "response" to a competitor's initiative. For example if you're in the telecom industry, and the "leading brand" offers a new bundled service, then your company will need to offer up a response. With that... Weidorje is Bernard Paganotti's response to Janick Top's 'De Futura'. For the whole album (and Weidorje of course was a track name on the same Udu Wudu Magma album). The familiar staccato bass lines, the pound-into-oblivion rhythms are all on display. And while it never reaches the sheer intensity of the almighty 'De Futura' - nothing does I don't think - it does add brass elements to give it more gravitas. More thunder that is to say! A fine album, that wears its superhero t-shirt with a capital Z. If you have to ask why Z, then you should not be reading this review. I had one colleague from back in the day who often referred to this as perhaps the best album in the entire oeuvre of genre-not-to-be-named-lest-they-guess-t-shirt.

Ownership: LP: 1978 Cobra. Single sleeve. Acquired at VVV in Dallas (1988).

CD: 1992 Musea. Jewel case release with liner notes and two excellent bonus tracks.

1988; 8/4/17 (new entry)