Andre Popp: Delirium In Hi-Fi orig '58 electronic space age pop musique concrete

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Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band [aka Andre Popp and Pierre Fatosme]: Delirium In Hi-Fi label & cat. no.:
Columbia Adventures In Sound WL 106 pressed in:
USA date:
1958 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (just a few faint unfeelable scuffs, looks wonderful for its age)
Cover: vg (back has some light stains but front looks great, fully intact) description:
Scarce original pressing of this album of pre-stereo, pre-synthesizer uneasy listening/early electronic/space-age pop by a pseudonymous Andre Popp and Pierre Fatosme (Popp would later release the sought-after album 'Holiday for DJs'). The artists took a whimsical approach to the tape-manipulation techniques of musique concrete composers and fellow Frenchmen Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, and Luc Ferrari, turning voices and instruments "inside out", inventing "false instruments", and recording "unplayable and unsingable parts." They painstakingly spliced together tight original pop songs (most melodic and comical with occasional noisy/experimental moments) out of sound effects, electronically modified and multitracked instruments and vocal sounds, early electronic sound filters, and occasional weird French vocals (often recited backwards for maximum strangeness!), foreshadowing the Moog-based work of Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley and daring to merge avant garde and kitsch in a way that would only be fully explored years later. This is a pioneering effort that should be heard by fans of early electronic and space age pop like Jean-Michel Jarre, Paul Beaver, Bernie Krause, Ferrante and Teicher, Stereolab, Dick Hyman, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Tom Dissevelt, Dick Raaijmakers, Clara Rockmore, Theremin, Jim Fassett, Mort Garson, Esquivel, Samuel Hoffman, Les Baxter, Enoch Light, Piero Umiliani, Roger Roger, and Cecil Leuter. Check out my other items for more early electronic/synth/concrete/electroacoustic, avant garde/experimental/noise, free jazz/improv, psych, sound art, soundtracks, audiophile, and 20th century classical vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail with tracking is $5.00 for up to 2 12" records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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