Henri Pousseur

condition (record/cover): NM / NM - Gatefold sleeve.  Henri Pousseur belonged to the Darmstadt generation alongside Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and Luigi Nono, Belgian representative in that international avant-garde that reshaped postwar music. Les Ephémérides D'Icare 2 on BASF documents his exploration of myth, Icarus falling through sonic space.

The ephemerides of the title are astronomical tables, predictions of celestial positions. Pousseur's Icarus navigates by such charts, flying toward a sun that will melt his wings. The myth had attracted composers before; Pousseur treats it not as narrative but as structural principle, the arc of rise and fall translated into musical form. BASF's release, on a label better known for recording tape than recorded music, suggests the industrial cross-pollinations that characterized this era.