IGOR WAKHEVITCH HATHOR RARE LP DARK ELECTRO SYNTH
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IGOR WAKHEVITCH - "HATHOR" LP
Composer : Igor Wakhevitch
Title : Hator
Label : Atlantic 40 533
Year : 1973
Country : France
Description :
ULTRA RARE WAKHEVITCH LP AND ONE OF THE BEST ON MY OWN POINT OF VIEW!! IT COMBINES DARK ELECTRO BEATS WITH AGRESSIVE & MONSTRUOUS SYNTH ARPEGGIOS OVER TONS OF WEIRD ANALOG EFFECTS AND LOOPS!! INCLUDING SOME TERRIFYING SPOKEN PARTS FILTERED THRU ALL SORT OF STUFFS THINK OF A MAD LOST SATANIST RECORDING TO MOTIVATE THE TROOPS BEFORE VIRGIN SACRIFICE!!! THIS IS PURE PROTO TECHNO MUSIC 20 YEARS BEFORE!!! TOTALLY OFF THE HOOK!!!! GRAB THIS NOW!!!
Hathor (Lithurgie du Souffle Pour la Résurrection des Morts) (1973)
Dating from 1973, shortly after working with Terry Riley on his Happy Ending soundtrack, there’s an obvious big advance in Hathor (Lithurgie du Souffle Pour la Résurrection des Morts), with greater use of keyboards, synthesizers, and looping techniques. But Hathor is no mere synth album, far from it, but is Igor Wakhévitch’s most powerful opus. Making use of the Paris Opera choir (no-less), along with weirdly processed vocals, his usual off-the-wall electronics, and even drum/sequencer drives unprecedented in any form of music before this. It’s another sonic roller-coaster ride, in which we experience an ominous bellowing God-like voice heralding something visionary.
As with his previous albums, Hathor contains a number of separate tracks that continue or segue from each other, amounting to what feels like one work. Here, we have surging electronic and percussion drives, a climax sparked off by lightning, thunder-crashes, a wealth of weird contorted voices, and much much more. Here tension gives way to intense power resulting in a kind of dark Vangelis—on the edge! With a weird Gothic choral number and another electronic rock opus to follow Hathor really flies! Only the closing coda offers relief, with a reflection on obvious Terry Riley influences, and hinting at the albums to come.
INFO by : http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=779.
CONDITION : GATEFOLD COVER : VG+ / RECORD : EX- some very lights surface noise , play very well.
Grading table:
M / Mint : 100% mint
F / Fair : 30% mint
EX /Excellent : 90% mint
P / Poor : 15% mint
VG /Very good : 70% mint
B / Bad : 5 % mint
G /Good : 50% mint
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