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Fugu


There are two artists using the name Fugu. One is a 1) French 1-man band; the other is a 2) Dutch ska band. 1) Fugu a.k.a Mehdi Zannad is a one-man-band from France. the idea of Fugu germinated while he was studying architecture in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1993, as his first demo lead him to record a 7 on Liverpool label Sugarfrost. A couple of years later, with encouragements from both High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and Stereolab, Mehdi recorded his first E.P and a handful of 7 singles (among them, a split single with Stereolab, another one with St Etienne and a favourite, F31-she's coming over on Elefant records). Fugu's first album, Fugu 1 was conceived as an idiosyncratic baroque sequel to Sgt Pepper meeting Smile and meant to be made in perfect 60's facsimile. It gained critical success, got released in US by Minty Fresh and in France on Yann-Amelie's fame-Tiersen label Ici d'Ailleurs. For Us Records, the in-house label of the Rough Trade Shop released it on vinyl in the UK and it became album of the week on Xfm. Fugu then opened for Stereolab on a coast-to-coast US tour which started at SF's Fillmore East and ended at the Irving Plaza in NY. Mehdi collaborated on happy-go-unlucky, the last Lp from ultra-talented songwriter John Cunningham, who was part of the Fugu line-up for the US tour. Straightforwardness was the idea for as found which has just been released in France and Japan. These are pop songs in the true sense and most classical canon, tackling US 70's early powerpo...

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