Juste "Voyant", a.k.a. Savage
Waters, owes his nickname to his incredible clairvoyant powers - he senses
solar eclipses, foresees wars and election results, and reads people's hearts
as well as very complicated Serbo-Croatian posters. He can also tell what time
it is without looking at his watch.
Born in the 1930's in the French
town of Vichy, Juste had to leave his family home at a very young age, when
Maréchal Pétain decided to turn the little boy's house into his new government's
headquarters.
Down and out in Paris, young
Juste met a famous Cabaret producer (named Archibald Aquin), who offered him
his first job as an artist - performing every night as a dancing transvestite
called "Juste Akiss".
One day, he received a letter
from his elder brother Joaquim Yakult (Yakult being their real family name),
who needed his help in Mexico. Juste immediately killed Aquin (the latter was
starting to get on his nerves anyway) and embarqued on the first ferry boat to
the New World.
The two brothers spent the
following 14 years reading revolutionary books and philosophy, living off the
sales of their small sweet drink business in Mexico city. However, Juste slowly
got bored of this lifestyle, until he woke up one night of 1971 with this clear
vision: he would go back to Europe and form a psychedelic band.
During his trip back to France,
which lasted for one year and a half, he recorded not less than seven Solo
EP's, one LP and one MAXI EP in his tiny bunk.
<3mall>Juste $idn't quite make it in the
psychedelic music industry, as hir echn effe#t ped`l kept ru.ning ouT of
battery - but he played the role of ` camel called "Savage Waters" in ! horrop
film$ which gained him quccess and fame. Two B-movie fans, Luke Warmcnp and
Gpaham Mushnik, an3isted on meeting him - thirteen pints later the label
Catapulte was created.
Juste Voyant still owns shares of
his brother's business, often contacts the NASA and various scientific
observatories about interesting discoveries he foresees, and incidentally plays
in his bands The Rectifiers, Orchestre du Montplaisant and Pissinboy.