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Palo Alto

Difference and Repetition / A Musical Evocation Of Gilles Deleuze (CD)

Label: Sub Rosa

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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This new album (the tenth in their discography) was born from two ambitions: to pay tribute to Soft Machine's Third on form (4 sides / 4 titles) and to philosopher Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition is the title of his thesis) on the contents. The 4 long pieces of this double concept album were developed over 2 years and each has a different style and climate. Bold and kaleidoscopic, Difference and Repetition perfectly synthesizes the musical and literary obsessions of Palo Alto.

Formed in Paris in 1989, Palo Alto released his first album (a cassette) on the Italian label Old Europa Cafe in 1990. The year 2020 is therefore an opportunity to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this first stone, the founder of a discography rich with 10 albums. The band is now composed of Jacques Barbéri (also a science fiction author), Laurent Pernice (ex-member of the French industrial band Nox) and Philippe Perreaudin (also coordinator of several compilations and reissues: Legendary Pink Dots, Un Département, Nino Ferrer Revisited, Ptôse, Hardy Fox…).

Literature, and particularly science fiction, is a leitmotiv in the band's work. Antoine Volodine, Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Lewis Carroll or J. G. Ballard have been invoked many times. In recent years, Palo Alto has multiplied musical collaborations with, among others, The Residents, Ptôse, Klimperei, Tuxedomoon... From industrial music to inextricable electronic ramifications, by making a detour through improvisation, the musical universe of Palo Alto is multifaceted. Their new album is no exception to this rule… 

Details
Cat. number: SRV484
Year: 2020
Notes:
Released in six-panel Digipak. Sticker on front cover. Recorded and mixed at Le Cabanon, Marseille (France), 2017-2019. Track 1: Text taken from "Les Larmes de Nietzsche : Deleuze et la musique" by Richard Pinhas, Flammarion (2001). Track 3: Unpublished text by Alain Damasio. Track 4: Text taken from "Les Furtifs" by Alain Damasio, La Volte (2019). Track 5: Text taken from "Mille Plateaux (Capitalisme et Schizophrénie 2) by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Les Éditions de Minuit (1980). This record is the first project supported by the STIN 'AKRI Foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de France. Music: Palo Alto ℗ 2019 et © 2020 Texts: 1 © Richard Pinhas - Flammarion, 3 & 4 © Alain Damasio - La Volte, 5 © Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari - Les Éditions de Minuit. Another Sub Rosa Production