Costin Miereanu - Poly-Art "Blow-Up" Series
Costin Miereanu - Poly-Art "Blow-Up" Series

Costin Miereanu - Poly-Art "Blow-Up" Series

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Label:    Creel Pone - 
Format:    x4 CD
Country:    USA
Released:    2003
Genre:    Electronic
Style:    Experimental, Minimal, Ambient

A monster 4cd set focusing on the output of Romanian experimental composer Costin Miereanu, featuring all four of the French Poly-Art records.  Miereanu's work, whilst underpinned by fierc compositional academia, is remarkably erm.. nice.  Or easy on the ear at least.  Strand-out 'Carrousel' is 18 minutes of pure microtonal levitation - synthetic yet warm, hallucinatory and endless.  Whilst Dervies on the other-hand lays down densely layered drone-work that is utterly engulfing. It's a thick sound-field, compounding down textures and almost static sound to form a heavily concentrated psychoacoustic expanse.  Seriously some of the most enchanting and absorbing electronic music of the last 50 years.... (Mint / New)

This was the 30th title in the ca. 2003 "Proto Creel Pone" series, collecting all four of the "4300" series LPs self-issued by Costin Miereanu in 1984 on his "Poly-Art" label ("Pianos-Miroirs;" PAR 4301, "Carrousel;" PAR 4302, "Jardins Oublies;" PAR 4303, & "Derives;" PAR 3404) along with the two "2700" series Cassettes ("Le Royaume De La Reine Pellapouf;" PAR 2701 & "Fata Morgana;" PAI 2702) from a year or two prior, all presented here as a handy quadruple-disc set (ala the more recent [CP 290-291 CD]). 

These were hugely influential personally (compare my "ASR" or "Late Monoliths" albums w/ swatches of "Carrousel" or "Derives", respectively) and were in fact chanced upon long before Miereanu's epic Cramps LP (see [CP 078 CD]) at a NNJ garage when my sensibilities were very much still forming; the initial gut rejection to anything "New Age" eventually gave way to a profound appreciation of the music herein, consisting of side-length extrapolations on a single theme of sustained, ebb-and-flow Electronic Sound. 

The detail and context for each of the LPs is presented legibly across the six (glossy) panels of the booklet, along with a separate 4-panel insert disambiguating the two tape releases; this caps off the first 30 titles in the "P.C.P." program in a gorgeous way.

Tracklist

Fata Morgana
A        Miroitements    21:53
B        Fata Morgana    20:20

Le Royaume De La Reine Pellapouf

A        Le Royaume De La Reine Pellapouf    19:50
B        Première Coïncidence    21:00

Carrousel

A Nuages-Nuages    22:50
B Carrousel    18:59

Derives

A Finis-Terre    20:32
B Terre De Feu    18:05

Pianos-Miroirs

A        Piano - Miroir 18:45
B        Musique Climatique 27:10

Jardins Oublies

A        Jardins Oubliés    19:56
B        Jardins Désertés    19:54