Pôle

condition (record/cover):  VG+ (some surface noise due to pressing) / NM 

The second and final LP by the French electronics collective Pôle, originally released in 1975 on the band's own short-lived Pôle Records label (POLE 0002) and reissued shortly afterwards on Tapioca as TP 10010 once Pôle Records went out of business. Inside The Dream was recorded "Monday 9 June 1975 midnight" (as inscribed on the original sleeve) and dedicated to Heldon, with whom Pôle shared the most adventurous wing of mid-1970s French electronic music.

The album is essentially the work of Paul Putti (the Pôle label's owner and the only musician common to both Pôle LPs), assisted on ARP 2600 synthesisers by Jean-Louis Rizet (who would shortly cut the celebrated Besombes-Rizet – Pôle LP with Philippe Besombes) and Pierre Chavigny, plus Eric Dervieu on bass, Christian Rouch on vocals and Marc Azad on guitar. Side A's twenty-five-minute title track opens with a mellow folk acoustic riff gradually overtaken by sopping-wet electric guitar and ARP synth oceans. Side B contains "Outside The Nightmare" (a long Rizet solo workout on the 2600) and "In The Mäelstrom", three synthesists churning together in slowly warping perpetual motion.

The pressing on offer is the Tapioca TP 10010 edition, with Philippe Simon's painted cover. Not the original Pôle Records 0002 first issue, but the version that actually circulated as Pôle Records collapsed and Tapioca absorbed the catalog.