Fan de Jésus Christ et amateur de music rock, Trinity House - trio anglais composé de Nick Bloomer (chant et guitare), John Mead (chant et basse) et Clive Hester (batterie) - érige avec, "Flashback Through History", une véritable tour de babel musicale.

Le groupe empile les genres (pop, rock, progressif), crée des labyrinthes sonores et dessine des mélodies improbables qui s'amusent à tutoyer le ciel.

La nouvelle bible du rock, pop, folk et jazz anglais - Galactic Ramble -  confirme l'existence d'un second album (qui est en fait le premier), enregistré en 1974 et intitulé "Songs From Thomas". La chronique de Richard Falk laisse entrevoir un autre miracle : « An ambitious rock opera by a church youth group, "Songs From Thomas", is a wonderfully amateurish piece that could have considerable appeal  for 'real people' collectors..."

Sorti de l'oubli par la paire magique belge Philippe / Etienne, "Lives forever" est la démonstration éclatante que les années 80 regorgent encore de bien belles surprises.

La musique de Freedom Fighter s'inscrit dans ce revival sixties cher à tous les groupes compilés dans le volet 3 de la série Nuggets ("Children Of Nuggets"). Mais Freedom Fighter se hisse au dessus de la masse grâce à des compositions posées, classieuses et addictives.

"Lives Forever", disque ô combien salutaire (pour les eighties), dépoussière les codes du garage et du psychédélisme avec un chiffon doux légèrement humidifié de new-wave. Magique !

Jerpe's only album is an odd duck in the singer/songwriter world. Unlike most of the genre, it is clearly rock rather than folk. Nonetheless, despite electric arrangements, the production (heavily reverbed vocals mixed so high that the instruments sound almost muffled) keeps these songs from reaching their full rock potential. Jerpe is obviously influenced by Dylan (The voice is Dylan circa "Nashville Skyline"), but I could see this album appealing to Velvet Underground or Bowie fans (it doesn't sound like either of them, but has a certain underground vibe).


The songs aren't exactly hooky, but have enough weird moments with pianos, slide guitars and falsetto vocals to make them memorable. Despite the low budget production, this music is quite colorful. Add all of this to the mildly eerie cover photos/art and this album is as distinctive as anything in the genre. The songwriting is decent to very good, and this neat record will appeal to a wide variety of quirky tastes. Jerpe had some earlier 45s with his last name spelled "Hjerpe". [AM]