Hapi Wiz - Au Grand Air
Les Potagers Natures, 2001
After buying it at a yard sale overseas, I couldn't wait to get back home and spin this 10" oddity, mostly due to it having white labels and one song a side. Due to this, I assumed it'd be drone or noise of some sort; but after finally spinning it I was surprised to see that Hapi Wiz have stepped in opposition towards opposition itself and made a single of which genre I can't even fully explain. It sounds like prime Sun City Girls mixed with Captain Beefheart, however, there is a certain energy and aesthetic present in Hapi Wiz not present in SCG or Beefheart, and that something is beyond what I can physically reciprocate, all I can do is recommend you listen to it. The guitars and the drums give the listener an inkling of impossible deja vu.
There seems to be no information on Hapi Wiz, despite their Les Potagers Natures page. True recluses!
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