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Chevalier Avant Garde is a Montreal-based duo of euro ex pats Dimitri and Filip who share a love of low lighting shadows and ancient ruins. Dimtri, of Greek-Egyptian descent, spent his dysfunctional childhood on the island of Crete riding his Kawasaki around the beach of a NATO base. Not too much is known about Filip except that he grew up in the industrial city of Lodz where he worked as a ball boy for LKS Lodz. 

 Like Alejandro Jodorowsky, globetrotting enigmas Filip and Dimitri are citizens of an aesthetic more than any recognized polity. For fans of 154-era Wire, dark...

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CHEVAL FOU gave a first whinny as a French rock trio around the frontman and a guitarist named Michel PETEAU in 1971. Michel had got pretty impressed by European Rock scene, especially the Who, and strove to make a similar impact by playing guitar, that could be crystallized as an incarnation of Heavy / Psych / Krautrock movement by three talented underground musicians in Paris - Jean Max PETEAU (guitar, bass), Stephene ROSSINI (drums), and Michel (guitar, saxophone). CHEVAL FOU had recorded some material from 1971 until 1975, that had not released in their active days. Fortunately a short-lived French...

Petit Cheval was a New Romantics from Pretoria, South Africa. Their name is French for 'little horse'. The group was founded in Pretoria in 1982 by singer/songwriter Jon Selby and soon after recorded a demo, which landed them a deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1984. Their 1985 debut album was a great success in South Africa, but the increased publicity also led to internal disputes, and bassist Johan Griesel left the group shortly after the album's release. Adding bassist Chris Bekker, they released an EP in 1986; however, internal tensions led to a split in 1987. Craig Else went...