Pierre Henry, Michel Colombier
Messe Pour Le Temps Présent / Le Voyage (CD)
LabelPhilipsGenreExperimental
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Two scores by Pierre Henry for the choreographer Maurice Béjart. Messe Pour Le Temps Présent, presented at the Avignon festival in 1967, adds electronic sounds and tape effects to short rock instrumentals arranged by Michel Colombier, and its opening Psyché Rock has since been sampled and remixed many times.
Le Voyage, from 1962, takes the opposite direction: a long, dark musique concrète work based on the passage through the after-death states described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, made of feedback, slow drones and rubbed resonances. This is the 1987 Philips CD edition.
Release notes
Packaging: semi-standard tri-fold (6 panel) Digipak® cover (glossy finish, medium spine with text), black plastic tray. Round cover hype sticker "Version Originale Remasterisée inclus Psyché Rock". No booklet or inserts. No liner notes/info. inside packaging (only minimal info and track-list on back cover). Track times not printed on sleeve art, taken from: CD-Mac-iTunes. Total time: 68:25
| Messe Pour Le Temps Présent | |||
| 1 | Prologue | 1:38 | |
| 2 | Psyché Rock | 2:52 | |
| 3 | Jericho Jerk | 2:33 | |
| 4 | Teen Tonic | 2:45 | |
| 5 | Too Fortiche | 2:53 | |
| La Reine Verte | |||
| 6 | Marche Du Jeune Homme / La Reine Et Les Insectes | 8:57 | |
| 7 | Rock Électronique | 3:42 | |
| Le Voyage | |||
| 8 | Le Couple | 7:00 | |
| 9 | Fluidité D'Un Larsen | 9:55 | |
| 10 | Divinités Paisibles | 9:36 | |
| Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir | |||
| 11 | Balancement | 1:17 | |
| 12 | Chant 1 | 0:33 | |
| 13 | Éveil | 1:29 | |
| 14 | Chant 2 | 1:33 | |
| 15 | Étirement | 1:02 | |
| 16 | Gestes | 1:44 | |
| 17 | Comptine | 1:39 | |
| 18 | Fièvre 1 | 2:27 | |
| 19 | Gymnastique | 2:19 | |
| 20 | Fièvre 2 | 2:30 | |
- Michel Colombier
- Composed By (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Pierre Henry
- Composed By (1-20)
