Anyone who might want to tell the story of popular music at the turn of the 21st century will of necessity have to devote much attention to the vast rediscovery / reappropriation / re-reading undertaken by many contemporary artists of that "Golden Age" of freedom and madness, 1968 to 1974. That enchanted episode in the history of pop music, in which genres, styles and traditions became suddenly intertwined to give birth to a new beauty, body and soul reconciled, at once convulsive in its rhythmic frenzy and bold in its structural hybridization, constitutes without doubt (and more than ever today) an inexhaustible supply of form and energy just crying out to be brought back to life, here and now, and differently.

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