Dominique Cravic

French singer/guitarist Dominique Cravic is the founder and bandleader of <a href="spotify:artist:0nkATyTqmB7r8erZ4ljiHb">Les Primitifs du Futur</a>, a musette revival band that draws from a range of world music styles as well as jazz, blues, and musette. Based in Paris, Cravic made his recording debut in 1983 with Cordes et Lames, a full-length album release on the label Jamuz. In 1985 he collaborated with fellow guitarist Didier Roussin on Juju Doudou. Around this same time, Cravic met American underground comics legend <a href="spotify:artist:231oazklLH3LOXVbhtCdx5">Robert Crumb</a> (aka <a href="spotify:artist:231oazklLH3LOXVbhtCdx5">R. Crumb</a>), whom he came to find out shared his passion for old jazz music, musette in particular. Also known as bal-musette, the antiquated accordion-based musical style initially became widespread in Paris during the late-19th century and, generally associated with dancehalls, was especially popular during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s before falling out of style. In 1986 Cravic and <a href="spotify:artist:231oazklLH3LOXVbhtCdx5">Crumb</a>, who plays banjo and mandolin, got together for a recording session at Bob Mathieu Studio that resulted in Cocktail d'Amour (1987), originally a six-track 10" release on the label Média 7 that marked the recording debut of <a href="spotify:artist:0nkATyTqmB7r8erZ4ljiHb">Les Primitifs du Futur</a>. In subsequent years, Cravic continued to collaborate with a long list of musicians on a variety of projects. In 1994, however, he reunited with <a href="spotify:artist:231oazklLH3LOXVbhtCdx5">Crumb</a> a second time under the <a href="spotify:artist:0nkATyTqmB7r8erZ4ljiHb">Primitifs du Futur</a> billing for the album Trop de Routes, Trop de Trains on the label La Lichère. Five years later came the third <a href="spotify:artist:0nkATyTqmB7r8erZ4ljiHb">Primitifs du Futur</a> album, World Musette (1999), a much more ambitious effort that took the band in many different directions stylistically and signaled a worldlier approach to music-making. A decade later, the fourth <a href="spotify:artist:0nkATyTqmB7r8erZ4ljiHb">Primitifs du Futur</a> album, Tribal Musette (2008), a major-label release on Universal Music Jazz France, continued to infuse musette with jazz, blues, and world music. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi