Underground: Cursed Rockers and High Priestesses of Sound

by Le Gouëfflec, Arnaud; Moog, Nicolas

• ISBN13: 9781787740259
• ISBN10: 1787740250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-09-26
• Publisher: Titan Comics

Summary

The essential illustrated bible of independent music!

Although not widely known, each of these artists has changed the history of music. So, to celebrate the incredible contributions of these unsung heroes, Arnaud Le Gouëfflec and Nicolas Moog have brought their stories to vivid life.

Discover the sensitive and manic-depressive genius Daniel Johnston; the Peruvian queen of exotica, Yma Sumac; the improbable blind and homeless Moondog; the classy bargain hunters of The Cramps; the legendary Patti Smith; and many, many more.

A veritable illustrated bible of the underground music scene, this anthology of 50 biographies invites you to discover little-known maestros and creators of underheard masterpieces. This is a book for the simply curious, as well as the connoisseur!

Includes:

• Moondog
• Daniel Johnston
• Colette Magny
• The Residents
• Sun Ra
• Tall Dwarfs
• Kevin Coyne
• Yma Sumac
• Sky Saxon
• Jonathan Richman
• Éliane Radigue
• John Fahey
• Raymond Scott
• Boris Vian
• Giant Sand
• Chris Black
• XIXA
• Golden Boots
• The Cramps
• Merrell Fankhauser
• Lydia Lunch
• Can
• Neu!
• Kraftwerk
• Faust
• Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Alex Chilton
• Nico
• Billy Childish
• Nurse with Wound
• Eugene Chadbourne
• Crass
• Captain Beefheart
• Brigitte Fontaine
• Lee Hazlewood
• Kim Fowley
• Dub
• Patti Smith
• Un Drame Musical Instantané
• Black metal
• Les Légions Noires
• Townes Van Zandt
• Cosey Fanni Tutti
• Peter Ivers

Author Biography

Arnaud Le Gouëfflec is 47 years old and has many stories to tell. His career as an author, as atypical as it is prolific, is characterized by a refusal to let himself be locked into a genre. Both a novelist and comic book scriptwriter, he is also a singer and songwriter. The common denominator: writing, fueled by various sources of fascination, from noir to serial novels to Fantômas, from SF to pataphysics, from comics to rock.

Nicolas Moog is a French cartoonist and author. He is also a musician (vocals, guitar, banjo, double bass, double bass, percussion) in several neo-blues formations such as Thee Verduns, and performs regularly on stage in Europe and the United States of America.