A book of wandering memories, this narrative showcases the unique voice of Jac Berrocal, a cult figure in the independent and avant-garde music scene since the 1970s, guided less by chronology than by the interplay of associations and reminiscences. Featuring more than 250 photographs and illustrations, and 5 tracks on CD (FACE ONE) included.
"A whirlwind of fragments of life, suspended flashes, pieces of a puzzle with an elusive, ever-shifting unity… One enters this book as one enters Albert Ayler's records: always in the middle of things… An explosion of fragments, assembled here, yet, reader, you will be hard pressed to find Jac: Jac is elsewhere, always elsewhere… And to follow his trail, to track him through these flashes, is to venture into the tangled labyrinths of an alternative temporality".
– Alexandre Breton
Jacques "Jac" Berrocal (born 1946 in Saint-Jean d'Angély, lives and works in Paris) is a cult French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene: he recorded/played with
Jean-François Pauvros ;
Steven Stapleton (
Nurse With Wound), Sunny Murray, Jacques Thollot, Denis Charles, Gilbert Artman, Jonathan Kane (Swans), Jaki Liebezeit (Can),
Pascal Comelade,
Pierre Bastien, MKB (
F. J. Ossang), Aki Onda, James Chance, Alan Shorter, Bernard Vitet,
Lol Coxhill, Michel Portal, Lizzy Mercier Descloux... He has released important albums mainly on his own label d'Avantage. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue. He is also known for his famous "Rock and Roll Station", recorded with Vince Taylor. Berrocal has appeared too in several films.
