various / canoë 1 / c40 / 1983

various artists - Canoë 1 (fanzine 25 sheet A4 + compilation tape c40) (year: 1983) 

I'm gonna to present you the number 1 of the french cassette-magazine Canoë. As you can see is composed by a black box with inside the fanzine's sheet and the tape.  

I've found also that there was different cover of the k7..

This one is very different from the other (that has mainly the same graphic but a different picture) and i found it on ebay...the user is selling the tape-only...without the box and the fanzine.

This is the inner sleve of the tape with the tracklist:

seite A: 1.Clair Obscur - Froh, 2.Un Department - Kumul part.I, 3. Lucrate Milk - Nepla Relou, 4. The Tempest - Lady Left This, 5. The Tempest - Hey Sister, 6. Ring Andersen - Sex Sexy Banzai

seite B: 1.Un Department - Kumul part. II, 2. Lucrate Milk - La Cloche, 3. Lucrate Milk - Stab Your Back, 4. Lucrate Milk - Cancer L'Amour, 5. The Tempest - Obscenity, 6. Clair Obscur - Dead End, 7. Clair Obscur - Hibernation

You can find this tape ripped here on Art of Losing blog. 

The Clair Obscur 's stuff is very nice, obscure dark post-punk in a classic way: 'Froh' is an inedited track, 'Dead End' could be found also inside the 'Ritual Dos Sadicos' comp. tape and 'Hibernation' on their first tape 'Cassette Noir' ...maybe not so original stuff but a very pleased listen. Un Department were from Orleans (Loiret), we found here two tracks, part I and II, recorded live..very different from their vinyl stuff(minimalsynth art/rock in a residentesque way), these tracks are sick slow post-punk, angry and frightening. The Tempest was one of the many projects of the english (Northampton, London) Alex Novax (in bands also with Venus Fly Trap, Religious Overdose and many others)...i don't  like a lot these tracks...too much rock for me...Then there's, as the cover say, special guest, Ring Anderson, with a nice synth-pop song. Last but not least..Lucrate Milk (from Paris)...that's one of my favourite band ever...with 4 killer tracks live, no-wavy art-punk stuff. demented and genius at the same time..

Other issue of  Canoë were:

- Canoë zero : k7 with bela kis, crimee, odessa swing, souvenir de paris, latin go

- Canoë Video Tape

included video from Lucrate Milk, Latin Go, Clair Obscur, Un Departement, Nini Raviolette, Venise, Orchestre Rouge

- Canoë 2 (no info found)

 - Canoë 3 (fanzine 60 sheet A4 + compilation tape) (year: april 1985)

on the scanned artwork of the canoë 1 posted by Art of Losing, Canoë talked about 2 really obscure tape:

- various - when the dixie stars are playing peek a boo (c60, 15 tracks, camera obscura)

amazingly is added on discogs database

- various - jojo's tape axe i (c30, 12 tracks)

with 3 bands from bremen: Foltergarde, Guki and Jojo...