Amanda Lear
Never Trust A Pretty Face

Eighteen sacred psychedelic suppositories from the laboratory of mad scientist and scalpel-happy pop mutilator Jean-Pierre Massiera. Includesthe rarest and most sought after fuzz funk, spooked surf andinterplanetary prog from ‘The French Joe Meek’ and all his schizoid splitpersonalities and freakish friends - The Maledictus Sound, ChicoMagnetic Band, Visitors, Human Egg, The Pirhana Sound and Jesushimself. Let Finders Keepers introduce you to some old friends of theirs - Charlie Mike Sierra, Jean-Pierre Areisam, JPM and Co. Erik, The Horrific Child, Jesus, Les Maledictus Sound, Human Egg... This might sound like they’re flicking through the imaginary LP racks in the record shop from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ or perhaps congratulating the runners up in aHalloween fancy dress competition but for the previously uninitiated youhave just been ordained into the congregation of the many splitpersonalities of one Mr. Jean-Pierre Bernard Massiera. Bow down to thenine-headed monster as he mutates and shape-shifts back through timeto his humble beginnings in a Buenos Aires province ravaging andpillaging the music of the European people for his own twistedbenediction along the way. This might, as intended, sound a little bit dramatic but if there is onesingle ingredient that gives the eccentric Jean-Pierre Massiera hisdistinct flavour it’s a large dollop of drama. Add sprinklings ofschizophrenia, shock, myth and macabre and you are on the way to a Bmovie broth with an acquired taste that has, like all the best cheese,taken over thirty years to mature to perfection. Like all the best monsters,his split personality is the key to his infamy and the secret of his bloodsucking success. This is why Jean-Pierre Massiera is (un)commonly known for two keyperiods in his career which, like a worm, can be split down the middle tothrive and flourish independently. To cut a long story short, Massiera is,above all, a lover and purveyor of musique fantastique, and is willing andable to hijack whichever stylistic vehicle that passes him buy in order todo feed his lust. In the earlier part of his career he honed his sordid craftamongst psychedelic circles in Nice and Quebec. From late 1972onwards he moved to Antibes and started a disco revolution andbecame an in demand cosmic record producer. For years, prog rockobsessives and disco aficionados have wondered if there was twounrelated freak merchants called Jean-Pierre Massiera but, in this rareinstance, exploito-maniacs from both sides of the cosmic coin are unitedby the work of this singular, single-handed monstrous musicmanufactory. Remastered and available once again on deluxe black vinyl since theinitial Finders Keepers limited edition 2009 pressing