Ondes Françaises
Paysages Planétaires
Paysages Planétaires on Alga Marghen may be the great unrecognized masterpiece of ethno-electroacoustic music, a 3CD box that arrived in 2004 with almost no fanfare and has waited two decades for ears ready to hear it. Henri Pousseur and Michel Butor…
Electronic Panorama (4LP box)
Essential monumental 4LP box set on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series presenting music from four international experimental music studios (France, Japan, Holland, Poland) and featuring Ivo Malec, Luc Ferrari, Guy Reibel, Bernard …
Concert Collectif (LP)
1968 collective concert by the GRM soupergroup (François-Bernard Mâche, François Bayle, Ivo Malec, Luc Ferrari, Michel Philippot, Philippe Carson, Jean-Etienne Marie, Edgardo Cantón, Bernard Parmegiani) Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle"…
Lettre À Une Demoiselle / Dichotomie / Petite Suite / D'Une Multitude En Fête (LP)
Very rare 1970 LP on La Voix De Son Maître "Perspectives Musicales" with optical covers with four electro-acoustic masterpieces realized at the GRM. No optical plastic bag.
Persepolis (LP)
Xenakis's 1971 long wild 'noise' electronic masterpiece on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series. Rare and absolutely essential. Grey cover version with green labels.
Musiques Pour Une Fête (LP)
First and only 1976 vinyl edition on Philips of the wild 1971 "spontaneous creation" made with elements of previous compositions. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record.
Arcana / Integrales / Ionisation (LP)
Three historical and essential ground-breaking works for orchestra and percussion ensemble performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble conducted by Zibin Mehta and William Kraft.
Songs Of Milarepa (LP)
Very rare first LP by Radigue released by Lovely Music in 1983, a minimal masterpiece featuring Robert Ashley. Please note the condition.
Les Ephémérides D'Icare 2 (LP)
Beautiful evocative 1970 composition for 2 soloists, Concertino and Concerto Grosso released on Basf in 1972.
Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum / Couleurs De La Cité Céleste (LP)
1970's re-issue on Erato's "Musique De Notre Temps" contemporary music series of two powerful works from the 60's for orchestra and for piano, wind and percussion ensemble, conducted by Pierre Boulez and featuring Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir (LP)
1968/9 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of the highly evocative 1963 masterful variations for a door and a sigh. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.
Messe Pour Le Temps Présent (LP)
Early 70's re-pressing on Philips of the adventurous groovy electro-aacoustic psychedelic music for a ballet by Maurice Béjart with the addition of excerpts from other three nasterpieces from the 1960's (Le Voyage. La Reine Verte, Variations Pour Une…
Shānti (2LP)
First and only vinyl edition as a double-LP set of the impressive and massive meditation music for electronic and concrete sounds realized at the WDR studios in 1972/73 and released by Erato in 1979.
L'oiseau Chanteur / Lignes Et Points / L'archipel / Espaces Inhabitables (LP)
Four absolute classic musique-concrète piece from the 60's by one of GRM's most representative composers released on Philips' brilliant silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series in 1968. Green labels.
Dix Ans D'Essais Radiophoniques Du Studio Au Club D'Essai (5x2LP)
Amazing complete set of 5 double-LP's produced by Pierre Schaeffer and released by French Radio in 1953, a massive anthology of radioplays excerpts produced and recorded between 1942 and 1952.
Espaces Inhabitables / Démeures Acquatiques / Medisances / Variations en Etoile / Capture Ephémère (2 reel-to reel tapes)
Amazing find: two reel to reel tapes with electro-acoustic compositions from 1967-1969 made at GRM (apparently by Bernard Parmegiani) and destined to be used for public or private listening, coming from composer Franca Sacchi's archive of tapes for h…
Interrupteur / Tautologos 3 (CD)
1999 re-issue on Blue Chopsticks of the EMI LP with two landmark instrumental compositions respectively from 1967 and 1970.
Chansons Pour Le Corps / Et Si Tout Entière Maintenant (CD)
Two intriguing late 1980's pieces respectively for voice and instruments and a symphonic tale with memorized sounds released on Mode in 2002.
Archives Génétiquement Modifiées / Société II (CD)
Excellent 2008 CD-only release on Robot of the 2000 piece for for memorized sounds coupled with the only CD re-issue of the 1968 recording of the 1967 piece for 4 soloists and 16 instruments.
Chantal (CD)
2004 CD-only release on Avatar/OHM of the touching 1978 portrait of a villager in collaboration with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari.