Originally released on the Barooni label and sold out since a long time. Charlemagne palestine and Alga Marghen have decided to make the two cds available in a new 2cd set edition. The cds are a new print of the original ones, both included in a newly designed slipcase.
Godbear. Flying. In the stratosphere of the overtones. Turn out the lights. Close your eyes. Trance out. Into SONORAMAGNIFICATALAND. Pushed by Remy Martin cognac, the piano would replay the encoded performances exactly in three parts. Strumming. Lower Depths. Timbral Assault. A re-evaluation of work from the seventies, recorded in the eighties, released in the late nineties and available on cp Records now. A long fuckin' journey, don't cha think? Nuf said!
Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn. Charlemagne palestine recordings on the 5th of September 1997, on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, of the Jamaice Day Parade. With a small Sony DAT player and a small stereo microphone, palestine walked throughout the festival very slowly for several hours to let the ambient sounds of each block naturally change in real time. The 60+ minutes segment on this record is played without any editing. Superimposed upon this extract palestine has composed three series of drone textures for Yamaha organs, 16 Serge & Rubery oscillators with bandpass filtering, and a thick Arp Synthesizer texture using oscillators, filters and other sound modulation devices. All together this work creates a dialogue between pure and mixed electronics and the real-time ambient sounds of a traditional urban ethnographic popular festival.
Edition of 500 copies