🇫🇷 a few great #parisrecordstores Pt.4: Crocodisc 🐊
Here are the mini-series of reports on some of my favourite record joints in Paris and what I sourced in ‘em on my last visit. For now finishing up with the Crocodisc stores. Didn’t have much time this time around, so will have to visit some other great places in Paris this coming fall. I shall report back if I don’t lose interest in using IG by that point. So yes, Crocodisc is a great duo of stores located right next to each other in the midst of Sorbonne campus on rue de l’École de Médicine. Right opposite Collège de France. One stocks a lot of rock, pop and French music. Their most interesting sections are European prog and avant rock as far as I’m concerned. It does feature a lot of the usual suspects, but it’s pretty large to accommodate some lesser known ambient, psych and new age nuggets. Including of course a lot of French weirdness from the 1970s. The neighbouring store specializes in fusion jazz, hip hop, soul, r&b, funk and global sounds. I’d say it’s a bit more interesting of the two. Lots of popular African music expectedly. Some of my picks are in the gallery. Beautiful “African Space Program” by Abdullah Ibrahim on Enja, synth pop concoctions by Bernard Szajner, Masahiko Togashi’s unruly free improv and Lard Free’s Gilbert Artman sax ensemble Urban Sax playing bizarre mixture of minimalist-bitten prog. Store clerks are all super-knowledgeable and helpful and there’s lots of them as well - ensuring Croco’s enormous inventory is tidily organized and well-preserved. Love it. Always worth a quick visit.
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