Label: Alga Marghen – Plana-D 19vocson070 Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Box Set Country: Italy Released: 2007 Genre: Electronic, Non-Music Style: Spoken Word, Experimental
Monumental 4LP anthology from French sound poet and Nouveau visual artist François Dufrêne - one of the most extensive and impressive sound poetry collections to date.
We’ve played through this box at least once a week for the past few months and every rotation draws us deeper into its world.Backstory - Dufrêne was was one of the earliest sound poets.Already in the Lettrist group at aged 16, later the ultra-Lettrist moment where he developed his own Crirhythm style which began incorporating vocal concrete music and the artistic possibilities of nonsense, noise, yelps, etc as a means of expression.Most notably, in the mid-50s Dufrêne is the first artist reported to have performed with a tape recorder.
It’s often brutal, overpowering but laced with humour.Heavily daubed classical music, smeared in heavy breathing and feverish vocal mutations.There’s a juxtaposition between the highbrow, often impenetrable, ivory tower world of classical music and Dufrêne’s unsettling non-verbal poetry.The lack of respect and razing of institution in a genuinely avant-garde way.Elsewhere, jazz percussion is defaced, or tape-music pieces are performed without musical accompaniment allowing their jarring qualities to penetrate deeper.Such works laid the foundation or later sound poets (Henri Chopin / Bernard Heidsieck), but we feel the same influence within the likes of Graham Lambkin’s work, Pierre Henry for INA-GRM, Hans Krüsi or Aaron Dilloway and much of the contemporary noise stuff.Intrepid listening.For some reason, we also have the box available on CD(NM/NM).
Tracklist A Crirythme Pour Un Double Anniversaire Dedicated To Ginetta And Anouj 18:26 Osmose-Art B1 Köchel Que J'Aime 9:37 B2 Le Cheval Lié À L'Art Rose 12:31 C1 Est-Ouest 8:19 C2 Tête À Terre Et Ventre Au Ciel 9:27 C3 Eryximaque, Suite Chorégraoni - Que Au Tombeau De Pierre Larousse 7:18 D1 Les Joyeux Sisyphe 7:40 D2 Sature, Nain! (Crirythme) 7:05 D3 Cacochyme (Crirythme) 2:12 D4 Sature, Nain! (Crirythme) 7:04 Lecture-Collage 1 E La Ressource Du Petit Peuple & Tenilom By Jean Molinet 18:57 Lecture-Collage 2 F1 Dit Du Vieux Marin By Coleridge 10:20 F2 Belles Nuisances, Hantez Nos Nuits 10:48 G1 Séquences (Crirythme) 20:26 G2 Comptinuum (Extraits I) 2:07 H1 La Guitare En Long 8:57 H2 PostcriRYTHptum 2:12 H3 Comptinuum (Extraits II) 10:57
