Recorded February 1992 by Christian Noêl at Studio Cactus, Marseille.Didier Roth – home-made instruments, tapes, radio, lungs.
Jean-Christophe Ville – 1-string banjo, melodica, chains, food.Denis Cabacho – metal percussions, harmonica, newspapers.Kiwi – electric piano, analog synthesizer.Edmond Hosdikian – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone.Claude Monteil – soprano saxophone, tuyaux.Frederique Wolf-Michaux – contralto vocals.Dalila Khatir ( fr:Dalila Khatir) – soprano vocals.Part I: Y'a Pas Quelqu'un Qui Peut M'aider? No. Music by Fred Frith, lyrics by François-Michel Pesenti. In his book Plunderphonics, 'pataphysics & pop mechanics: an introduction to musique actuelle, Andrew Jones said that Que d'la Gueule "show themselves to be a powerful ensemble bristling with talent and volatile contradictions", and that in Helter Skelter they "sketch a broad canvas of despair and hope, an urban maelstrom with moments of pure beauty peering through the shards of electroacoustic reality." Jones added that "Listening to is like a ride on a subway and a stroll through a bustling market while listening to music on a walkman: striated fragments upon fragments leak through, from Eastern European jigs and dances …, samples of street life, radio broadcasts, plaintive chords arising from the horns, a soprano singer launching into Catalani's La Romance, all layered in an astonishing dense, chaotic mix and anchored by two airtight drummers." Track listing
The opera was recorded in February 1992 by Christian Noêl at Studio Cactus in Marseille, and later mixed in July 1992 by Benedykt Grodon, Fred Frith and Jean-Marc Montera at Sound Fabrik in Munich using additional material taken from concert performances. Later the work was also performed in Zagreb, Hamburg, St. Helter Skelter was billed as an "operatic tragedy", and was first performed in December 1990 at Theatre Toursky in Marseille.
He said, "Somehow all their personalities infected the kind of music we ended up making together." To add to the mix, Frith also encouraged them to create and play homemade instruments. Their style of playing and abilities varied considerably, but Frith found that this was what contributed to the success of the project. He composed Helter Skelter for them to perform, a rock opera for two sopranos, one contralto and a large electric ensemble. In 1990, English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith spent six months in Marseille, France, working with Que d'la Gueule, a group of young unemployed rock musicians.
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