Label: INA-GRM – n° 9114 ch Series: Série Gramme Format: Vinyl, LP Country: France Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic Style: Electroacoustic
Mesmerising electro-acoustic scene-setting from the great French professor, writer, composer, multi-linguist Michel Chion.
Anyone who’s paid any attention to what we’re into here should know we’re suckers for anything on the mighty INA-GRM series from the late 70’s to mid 80’s - La Ronde (’82) could be the best. It’s a piece of four parts, where Chion, armed with a world famous knowledge of film theory and composition, conjures up his charismatic ‘Sound Images’ - imaginary environments projected into our inner mind-eye with varied texture, tone and timbre. The title piece provokes images of sepia-coloured old Europe- passing voices and frequency scanning noise mashed with a bustling city-scape and nostalgia-laced fairground fun. Chion’s unique spatial awareness and merging of musique concrete techniques and organic field-recordings creates as unique sense of augmented reality and depth. ‘On n’arrête pas le regret’ (’75) captures a dynamic movement of high-intensity drama and tranquility, with processed organ parts, buried toy piano, vocal pieces and electronics uniting into an immersive 12+ minute sound trip, whilst ‘Tu’ is a tense Libretto featuring the unmistakable vocal contributions of the late legend Ghedalia Tazartes. One of the best records of it’s kind. (NM/VG+ (corner knock) - with all inserts and multi-language descriptions).
Tracklist La Ronde (24:08) A1 Pensées Du Matin 1:23 A2 Ariette 1:06 A3 L'été 2:09 A4 Playtime 3:15 A5 La Vierge Folle 3:11 A6 Les Mots 1:44 A7 Pour Lucienne 3:42 A8 Jardins Jadis 1:26 A9 Prière 3:45 A10 Pensées Du Soir 1:42 A11 La Machine À Passer Le Temps 5:22 On N'arrête Pas Le Regret (12:47) B1 Coup De Soleil Sur Un Vitrail 2:06 B2 Cris Et Babils 4:23 B3 Mondnacht 1:07 B4 Ronde "Notre Dame Du Regret" 1:06 B5 Cauchemar En Rose 3:40 B3 Tu Mouvement 9 11:50
