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Bertrand Burgalat - Ça, C'est Paris !
Bertrand Burgalat
Ça, C'est Paris !
LP | 2025 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 30.34*
Release: 2025 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Tricatel is releasing on gatefold vinyl a selection of tracks composed by Bertrand Burgalat for Ça, c'est Paris! the series directed by Marc Fitoussi, starring Alex Lutz, Nicolas Maury and Monica Bellucci.

Marc Fitoussi - extract from the sleeve notes
After collaborating on my film "Les Apparences", I knew he'd be the ideal man for this series. Someone who could make real revue music, like you'd hear at the Paradis Latin or the Alcazar, and who could also be resolutely contemporary, like when the troupe relaxes and dances in a bar to a hit of the moment.

Stéphane Lerouge - extract from the sleeve notes
It's a genre that dates back to the thirties, that of the backstage musical, a genre with well-defined codes: the struggle of a collective, a troupe of singers and dancers, to put on a show that, despite a tsunami of obstacles, will end in triumph and reveal a new star. A broad spectrum of films can be linked to this, from "Quarante-deuxième rue" to "Tous en scène", from "Chorus line" to "Trois places pour le vingt-six". And today, the original link in this long chain is the series "Ça, c'est Paris!", in which Marc Fitoussi strips away this tradition, reenchanting it, making it crackle with new energy. In the end, his mission is almost the same as that of his main character, Gaspard Berthille (Alex Lutz), heir to a cabaret, the Tout-Paris, for whom he must invent a present, or rather, a future. To carry out this delicate task, Gaspard Berthille needed an accomplice, invisible on screen: Bertrand Burgalat. His freedom, the way he juggles harmony and tonality, shines through in every measure, as if Marc Fitoussi's subject had triggered something decisive and essential in him.
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Bertrand Burgalat Meets A.S Dragon - Bertrand Burgalat Meets A.S Dragon
Bertrand Burgalat Meets A.S Dragon
Bertrand Burgalat Meets A.S Dragon
2LP | 2002 | EU | Reissue (Tricatel)
$ 35.57*
Release: 2002 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance
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This album, recorded live after the release of Bertrand Burgalat's first album (The Sssound of Mmmusic, 2000), is a unique testimony of a passionate encounter, of explosive concerts and an exceptional musical adventure, a mixture of soulful rhythms, oniric keyboards and songs with chiseled lyrics and harmonies.

Out of stock on vinyl for decades, it will be reissued and published in December 2022, with a text by Philippe Manœuvre. 21 years after its first publication, it has not aged a bit. It includes tribute covers ("Follow Me" by Amanda Lear, "Tears Of A Clown" by Smokey Robinson), and a version of "Easy Tiger", recorded at the same time for Depeche Mode.

"This album brings back the great psychedelic concerts that Bertrand gave at the time. For me, Aux Cyclades électronique is in the running for the title of most beautiful song in the world, I haven't changed my mind." Philippe Manoeuvre, excerpt from the innersleeve note, April 2022

"A.S Dragon is arguably the best French rock band of today. Nearly an hour of psyche-magnetic madness, the spectacular collision of a Gainsbourg theorist playing his melodies to a Jefferson Airplane from Clignancourt charged with pushing all galactic limits." Philippe Manoeuvre, Rock & Folk, October 2001

"Bertrand Burgalat meets A.S Dragon could satisfy both French Touch fans and Rock'n'Roll purists. It sounds like the resurrection of a sixties garage rock band, somewhere between Detroit and Combs-la-ville. Burgalat for charity." Philippe Barbot, Télérama, November 2001

"This is a fantastic remix! It sounds a bit like 70's funk. Bertrand has taken the song and reworked it from top to bottom, re-recording people on every part. It sounds like a James Bond song. It's really one of the best remixes we've ever done. " Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) on "Easy Tiger", Magic, May 2001

"I wish this song could last my whole life..." Virginie Despentes, on "Aux Cyclades électronique", "Vernon Subutex
Catastrophe - Fizzy
Catastrophe
Fizzy
LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 23.01*
Release: 2020 / EU – Original
Genre: Rock & Indie
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Special remarks : 1LP + printed inner sleeve
DO NOT RELEASE BEFORE 29.08.2020

Genre: Bew Wave / Pop

Tracklist :

A1 - Party in my Pussy
A2 - Bruce Lee
A3 -Aria 140.66
A4 - L'enfant sur la banquette arrière (Vision de Catastrophe)
B1 - Maintenant ou jamais
B2 - Nuggets
B3 - Smalltown Boy (Nova Version)
B4 - L'Amour tout nu

Short Info :

FIZZY is a selection of eight tracks by Catastrophe, for the first time gathered on vinyl. Born in 2016, Catastrophe would like not to forbid anything, even if it means the risk of ridicule. Whether in forests, on rooftops, crossing France and summer festivals (Rock en Seine, We Love Green, Francofolies), Catastrophe imagines. On stage, surprise reigns supreme and explodes into a musical kaleidoscope.

In 33T and with printed innersleeves, this vinyl is a beautiful introduction to the world of Catastrophe. Their recent performances on major French and international stages (Eurosonic, Reeperbahn, Munich, Tokyo, Warsaw) show the growing interest for their music and energy. This selection is an ideal gateway to discover them.
Helena Noguerra - Azul
Helena Noguerra
Azul
LP | 2023 | Original (Tricatel)
$ 33.48*
Release: 2023 / Original
Genre: Rock & Indie
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Special remarks : 1 LP + PRINTED INNERSLEEVE
Genre: Bossa/Chanson

Tracklist :

Face A

1) Morrer nos seus braços
2) Île amoureuse
3) Vida nunca terà fim
4) Baby butterfly
5) Esse lugar
6) Mon bel andalou

Face B

1) Ceù azulou
2) Vai meu amor
3) M'en Aller
4) Vem aqui
5) Tout commence

Short Info :

Tricatel is proud to release for the first time on vinyl the reissue of this album released in 2001. It is a single vinyl with a printed sub-sleeve containing vintage studio photos.
Inspired by Barthes, who wrote that the resistance would probably be one day in the affirmation of happiness, I wanted to write a happy record, so happy that it would be a provocation. So I wanted to sing about love in the naive and poetic language that Portuguese is for me. It is the language of secrecy and modesty, of sensuality and eroticism.
So we recorded Azul in the offices/studios of Tricatel in four days. With the Recyclers (Steve Arguëlles, Benoit Delbecq, Christophe Minck), we created these versions on the spot and on ADAT tape for a budget of thirty thousand francs. It is, until now, my album which travelled the most, and which found the most aficionados.
This reissue for the first time on vinyl, almost 23 years later, fills me with joy. Thanks Boss!
Bertrand Burgalat - The Sssound Of Mmmusic Record Store Day 2021 Edition
Bertrand Burgalat
The Sssound Of Mmmusic Record Store Day 2021 Edition
2LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Tricatel)
$ 32.43*
Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Electronic & Dance
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Record Store Day 2021 release. Bertrand Burgalat's first album 'The Sssound of Mmmusic', also known as TSOM, is released in an expanded reissue, twenty-one years after its first publication, on June 12th 2021 for the Record Store Day. Bertrand Burgalat combines lush arrangements, dreamy atmospheres and pop culture with class and humor.

In 2000, Bertrand Burgalat decided to evolve openly by releasing his first solo album 'The Sssound of Mmmusic' which had been in the works since the creation of the label 5 years earlier. This album, a true melancholic and sensual sonorama, reveals the very essence of Burgalat's art, fragile, nuanced, with a rare humility. Dotted with banjos and club bass, cascades of synthetic strings and soprano saxophone, geisha choirs and unblocked beats, 'The Sssound of Mmmusic' appears as a contrasting work where opposites unite in perfect alchemy.

Accompanied by previously unreleased tracks for the first time on vinyl, the album features songs like 'Gris métal' with a text by Michel Houellebecq, 'Vision of Love' his cover of Mariah Carey, or 'Kim' five minutes of intoxicating music.
Bertrand Burgalat - Reve Capital
Bertrand Burgalat
Reve Capital
2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 35.57*
Release: 2021 / EU – Original
Genre: Pop
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A download code is included. Bertrand Burgalat’s new album, Rêve Capital, will be released on Friday June 11, 2021 by Tricatel. How many of Burgalat’s songs have accompanied difficult afternoons, happy evenings and lonely mornings? The list is long. And it gets longer with this album, each track of which widens the rift between the plates of space and time. Jean-Pierre Montal Burgalat makes crackle what we like most in his universe: the reality of things and their discrepancy, the intimate and the universal. Stéphane Lerouge His first record, THE Sssound OF Mmmusic, will be released in a deluxe gatefold double vinyl reissue, for the Record Store Day, on June 12, 2021.
Chassol - Ludi
Chassol
Ludi
2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 30.34*
Release: 2020 / EU – Original
Genre: Pop
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A download code is included. Christophe Chassol is reshuffling the deck. After making his name worldwide with three magnificent ultrascore compositions (Nola Che?rie in 2011, Indiamore in 2013 and Big Sun in 2015), working with Solange and Frank Ocean, and playing the most prestigious halls, he’s taking his quest to arrange reality even further with Ludi, his new project that includes an album, film and show. It’s play - an all-important word in music - that underscores this impressive, masterful construction freely inspired by Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game. Everything is part of the melody: a playground or basketball players in the suburbs, an arcade in Tokyo, a roller coaster, singer Crystal Kay and rapper Kohh. Solo musicians were filmed in rehearsal, like flautist Jocelyn Mienniel and the composer’s partner, drummer Mathieu Edward, who managed to reprise on stage Chassol drew from the great German author’s utopic book, where music, mathematics, aesthetics and spirituality intermingle, to create a passionate work produced by Bertrand Burgalat’s label Tricatel that once again justifies his special place in the musical landscape.
Chassol - Indiamore
Chassol
Indiamore
LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 30.34*
Release: 2016 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The album from 2013 now available on vinyl!
Comateens - 1980 - 1985
Comateens
1980 - 1985
3LP | 2019 | FR | Reissue (Tricatel)
$ 31.39*
Release: 2019 / FR – Reissue
Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop
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Used Vinyl
Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint
Lord$ - Speed It Up
Lord$
Speed It Up
LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 32.43*
Release: 2024 / EU – Original
Genre: Electronic & Dance
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LORD$'s debut album 'Speed It Up' is out on April 26 via Tricatel. LORD$ is a 5-piece band steeped in references ranging from US rap to 70s soft rock, skateboarding to video games, with Rémi Klein on keyboards and vocals, Jay Adams on bass, Zablon on guitar and vocals, Bastien Bonnefont on drums and Gary Haguenauer on guitar.

These formidable instrumentalists have given a handful of concerts, notably at the Petite Halle de la Villette in Paris, one of the hotbeds of the French jazz revival. The group also competed in the prestigious Tiny Desk series of intimate concerts, delivering a performance that impressed American public radio station NPR.
_Pascal Bertin
V.A. - 7x7
V.A.
7x7
2LP+Book | 2023 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 83.72*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Tricatel is proud to present, in a limited edition of 777 hand-numbered copies, the superb double vinyl/book dedicated to 7×7, inspired by Bertrand Burgalat.
Seven notes in the scale, seven days in the week, seven colors in the rainbow, seven wonders of the world, seven virtues and seven sins, seven ages of life, seven samurai, seven dwarfs for Snow White… Under the sign of 7, Belgian artist Jean Pierre Müller, in close collaboration with seven music legends (Robert Wyatt, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan, Mulatu Astatke, Kassin, Nile Rodgers, Terry Riley), has conceived a magical project combining visual and sound compositions, in all senses and meanings.
In the summer of 2012, 7×7 was first presented to the public in its entirety at Edinburgh’s Summerhall, the start of a series of high-profile exhibitions and shows that have taken 7×7 from New York to Cannes. Ten years later, Jean Pierre and Tricatel would like to dream again with you, this time of a physical object celebrating 7×7 and offering the general public the opportunity to own a piece of the 7 colors dream.
This art and music object is a Gatefold double-vinyl, comprising two white vinyl records in printed inner sleeves and a 64-page booklet in the center, like a book.
Tricatel - Tricatel Machine
Tricatel
Tricatel Machine
LP | 2023 | Original (Tricatel)
$ 32.43*
Release: 2023 / Original
Genre: Electronic & Dance
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LP

On the occasion of its exceptional evening at the Cabaret Sauvage, Tricatel is releasing a superb vinyl compilation of thirteen tracks, including several previously unreleased ones. It's a collector's item for long-time fans and for those who want to discover the label.

The Tricatel Machine compilation pays tribute to this unique evening, including each artist present at the party. But not only that! Of the thirteen tracks, many are new or unreleased on vinyl.

Tracklist :

Face A

1) Madrigal - Leo Blomov
2) Billy Joel - Lord$
3) Plus vite - Charles Dollé
4) Dream - Comateens
5) Pôve tièsse - Guy Cabay
6) Fallen Snow - Louis Philppe
7) La mémoire des pierres - Catastrophe

Face B

1) Das Macht Dich Heiss - Ingrid Caven
2) Sweet Jesus !!! - Chassol
3) J'n'ai pas bougé d'ici - Stéphane Salvi & Kumisolo
4) Tee Shirt Finisher - A.S Dragon
5) The Girl of September - Bertrand Burgalat
6) Montées infinies - Karol Beffa
Guy Cabay - Cabaycédaire
Guy Cabay
Cabaycédaire
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Tricatel)
$ 30.34*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The Belgian vibraphonist Guy Cabay has played with Toots Thielemans, Philip Caherine or Raoul Faisant. Composer, arranger, musicologist and singer, he also wrote and recorded two extraordinary albums in Liege Walloon. Tricatel is happy to make them available at last, 46 years after their publication. "Gravity kills us. Perhaps that is the meaning of Adam's Fall. We are condemned to be Newton's apple, not the balloon carried away by the wind. But it happens nevertheless that, by the grace of music in particular, we escape gravity, that time escapes time, that another breath inflates our lungs, so much lighter than the one that usually suffocates us. We don't take light music seriously, and that's good. Only serious music deserves to be treated so badly. Guy Cabay's music flows from a purer source and speaks to us in a more tender voice. One can obviously describe it as one labels export product. Origin: Belgium. Ingredients: jazz, bossa nova, tropicalism, song - proportions may vary. Calorific value: none. Non-perishable product. But this would say as much about what this music really is as if, in. order to evoke what the foggy blue of a Norman sky inspires, one were to take note of the variations in the percentage of humidity in the atmosphere at Etretat and make a learned presentation on the laws of refraction. Guy Cabay did pass through Brazil and still lives there a little, a Brazil that is not the one ofcartographers or travel agencies, a Brazil that is as real as the Far West in which Fenimore Cooper's child readers lived, as blurred and limpid as a dream. It is not the Amazon thatflows through this Brazil, but the Ourthe, a tributary of the Meuse, which makes it morefamiliar, stranger and even more poetic. To let oneself be bathed in this melancholichappiness, to let oneself be carried by this river is sweet, as sweet as the fluid consonants of the Walloon language, this 'd' which becomes 'dj' in his mouth, as in Portuguese, by the way. To know how to create melodies that hold on a note like Jobim's samba, like a fildeferist above a waterfall of chords, is not given to everyone. It is a gift. Knowing how to lace others on dozens of points, as on Tot a-fet rote cou d'zeur cou d'zos, a poignant encounter between Randy Newman and Robert Wyatt, is another. These are not the only ones that the fairies offered to Guy Cabay and that, by an almost miracle, he offers us again today. Hearts up." Bertrand Burgalat
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