Abracadaboum is the third studio album for Brurier Noir. While the group went on a concert strike in the summer of 1987, they remained active and took advantage of the opportunity to record a new album with a sharp eye on world events. Les Brus, always in the vanguard of an alternative youth that challenges taboos and norms, release 10 new hymns to insurrection and try to explode the borders set up by intolerance. The future is not violence but solidarity!

The band’s name alone evokes the epic of alternative rock: rebellious and committed. Born by mistake on a February evening in 1983, Brurier Noir soon found itself the driving force behind a vast “Youth Movement”, determined to take control of its life in the face of a society that was ultra conservative at the time. Times have hardly changed. From the first self-produced records distributed by hand to the creation of self-managed labels, from concerts in squats and wild appearances in demonstrations, on the street or in the metro to endless tours, from interviews given to fanzines and free radio stations to unclassifiable appearances in the mainstream media, Brurier Noir has waged the most exciting war of independence in the history of French rock, with only a microphone, a guitar, a drum machine, a few red noses and patched-up theatre masks.

The last finger of honour of this turbulent and irrecoverable raia, Franois, Loran and their “Troupeau d’Rock” commit hara-kiri, at the peak of their glory, during three last concerts in the heart of Paris in November 1989. Forty years after its birth, Brurier Noir’s work still resonates, whether in demonstrations or free parties, nourishing the hopes of those who wish to overthrow this world to build a truly libertarian, united and fraternal society.

The label Archives de la Zone Mondiale reminds those who missed this unprecedented adventure, 8 discographic parts of the group Brurier Noir in the form of reissues on particularly original colour vinyls (crown finish), in a limited series and distributed throughout the year.