Ghedalia Tazartes
Ghédalia Tazartès (1947 to 2021) was one of France's most idiosyncratic talents. From the mid 1970s, in a Paris apartment, he mined a universe of his own: berserk intoning and wailing glossolalia, rough-hewn tape collage and a loose mulch of instruments from everywhere, all rubbing against each other's grain to strange and often comic effect, sung and cut by one man alone. Diasporas (1979) and Tazartès (1987) are the records that made his name among collectors. He called himself a nomad, wandering through music from chant to rhythm and from one voice to another, and the reissues by Alga Marghen in the 2000s brought him a late audience and a return to the stage, in France and abroad, where the voice was as unhinged and moving as on tape.
Ghédalia Tazartès (1947 to 2021) was one of France's most idiosyncratic talents. From the mid 1970s, in a Paris apartment, he mined a universe of his own: berserk intoning and wailing glossolalia, rough-hewn tape collage and a loose mulch of instruments from everywhere, all rubbing against each other's grain to strange and often comic effect, sung and cut by one man alone. Diasporas (1979) and Tazartès (1987) are the records that made his name among collectors. He called himself a nomad, wandering through music from chant to rhythm and from one voice to another, and the reissues by Alga Marghen in the 2000s brought him a late audience and a return to the stage, in France and abroad, where the voice was as unhinged and moving as on tape.
