AKUPHONE

Jac Berrocal is a 1946-born trompettist, poet and sometime film actor who came of age in the 1970s Paris improv scene, where the boundaries between music, art and theatre were porous and begging to be breached. Inspired by bebop, chanson, free jazz, beat poetry, early rock ‘n roll and myriad Eastern influences, and with an iconoclastic, anything-goes approach to instrumentation and technique that would later align him with post-punk sensibilities, Berrocal blazed an eccentric and unstoppable trail across the underground throughout the 1970s and 1980s, both solo and as part of the Catalogue group he co-founded.