ELIANE RADIGUE FEEDBACK WORKS ELECTRONIC 2-LP ALGA MARGHEN-PIERRE HENRY-SEALED
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ELIANE RADIGUE
FEEDBACK WORKS 2-LP
Alga Marghen
Limited Edition: 400 copies
w/printed inner sleeve, 16-page booklet
Works from the period 1969-1970 from mastermind french composer Eliane Radigue coming in a deluxe limited edition of 400 copies.
Some info on the release: Rare original issue, released in Italy on the great Alga Marghen label (John Cage, Max Neuhaus, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, Brion Gysin, Sten Hanson, Jacques Berrocal, Philip Corner, Nam June Paik, etc.). Deluxe double vinyl, gatefold limited edition of 400 copies for the world with 16-page booklet of notes, interview and photos. Gosh this is just something else. Alga Marghen present these astonishing archival works by Eliane Radigue, not heard since their installation use at the turn of the '70s and now pressed to vinyl for the first time ever. Listening to Radigue's music is a transformative, humbling experience. Her singular sound is best described by Michel Chion as "infinitely discreet… next to which all other music seems to be tugging at one's sleeve for attention." Working since the late '50s under the tutelage of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry at RTF's Studio d'essai - the birthplace of musique concrète - she created a body of work whose profound simplicity has only begun to be widely appreciated over the last decade or so. Preferring to work at night - once her children were asleep - her compositions were created using tones derived from an ARP 2500 synthesizer and manipulated on multiple tape machines, creating feedback loops and altering their pitch and duration to coax out quavering microtonal harmonics and ultrasound frequencies not usually perceived at their normal setting. As practically anyone who knows (and probably adores) her music will testify, there's really very little else out there that compares to the elemental tranquility and hallucinatory effect of her works. This album rescues three pieces from original tapes which have lined the walls of her flat in Paris for over 40 years: proposed for the 1970 Osaka Fair, 'Stress-Osaka' (1969) is beautiful and terrifying at once, sounding either like a 1000 strong squadron of B-52's heard from miles away, or a mouth-bound choir humming in unison, somehow subliminally joined by shrill gull-like hi-end repetition; the spectral beauty 'Usral' (1969) was employed for a kinetic sculpture by Marc Halpern, it's title "…a phonetic compression of ultrasounds slowed-down (ultra-sons ralentis in French)" reflecting the use of slowed-down Larsen effects from overlapping tapes to obtain her signature "progressive a-synchronized shifting"; the systolic suspension of 'Omnht' (1970) (one more night) is twenty minutes of slowly encroaching black bass mass and isolated, glassy highs, originally played from behind false dividing walls at a gallery instal and now leaving us for six. Add to this a further LP with new versions of 'Vice - Versa. Etc…' (1970) - which have been recently stereo synthesised by Emmanuel Holterbach, and you have a breathtaking document of some of the most intense and affacting early electronic works you'll likely ever hear. An absolute masterpiece.
Condition: Vinyls lies in mint condition, this is a sealed stock copy, while cover lies in mint shape, like new (see picture).
Tracklist
A1 Stress-Osaka (June 1969) 11:35 A2 Usral (April 1969) 13:32 B Omnht (1970) 19:42 C Vice - Versa, Etc (1970) Mix I 12:14 D Vice - Versa, Etc (1970) Mix II 16:16SHIPPING & PAYMENT
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