Vox Populi!, Axel Kyrou - Half Dead Ganja Music (2024)

London imprint Platform 23 has issued a vinyl reissue of the 1987 cassette Half Dead Ganja Music by French experimental trio Vox Populi!. The group was formed in early-1980s Paris by siblings Mithra and Arash Khalatbari (of Iranian descent) and Axel Kyrou (of Greek-Egyptian heritage), the latter being the son of musique concrète pioneer Mireille Kyrou. Their international composition and avant-garde background shaped a distinctive "ethno-industrial" style fusing industrial music, post-punk, Persian poetry, musique concrète, and global musical traditions. Half Dead Ganja Music comprises twelve pieces divided between a studio side and a live side, marked by dark ambient textures, drone, sparse drum machine pulses, and a ritualistic atmosphere — a departure from the percussive psychedelia of earlier records. Platform 23 has released the album on vinyl in high-quality packaging.

Tracklist:
1-1 Vox Populi! - Schmacht [2:47]
1-2 Vox Populi! - Gole Mariam [3:26]
1-3 Vox Populi! - Da Ma [3:20]
1-4 Vox Populi! - Golnessar [3:02]
1-5 Vox Populi! - De La Cohorte Mystique [4:29]
1-6 Vox Populi! - Freaking At Ffm [2:19]
1-7 Vox Populi! - Perse Voir La Lumière [2:40]
1-8 Vox Populi! - Fassle [3:03]
1-9 Vox Populi! - Taghmanantes - Gin Gina - Un Jour [10:08]