Packaged in a 6 panel digipak. Includes a 16 page booklet in French & English. A massive, four side-long drone-epic masterpiece “Shânti” (1972-73) for electronic and concrete sounds, in a spectacular double CD digipack issue. A hundred-and-thirty-five minute piece of "meditation music" for a four-track magnetic tape by Jean-Claude Eloy, produced in the Electronic Studio of the Radio of Cologne “The term “meditation music” triggered many conflicting comments including positive ones (“... let us say that Shanti belongs to those very rare works that change you after listening to them. You are not exactly the same before and after.” - Gerard Mannoni, Le Quotidien de Paris, 1974). Others, wondering at the strong sound presence of the piece, consider such aspect as hardly helpful to their own meditation... Let us be clear: “what meditates” here (”that” who meditates) is the composer. He is the one who takes you on his journey and guides you through his work like in a classic or romantic symphony. As a listener you are invited to follow “his” meditation... The composition is the meditation.”
© ℗ J.-C. Eloy 2001 [on discs] ℗&© J.-C. Eloy 2001 [on cover] © Jean-Claude Eloy 2001 ℗ [inside booklet] Production : Studio für Elektronische Musik, Westdeutscher Rundfunk WDR Köln, 1972-73. Studio de Musique Électronique, WDR, Cologne. Electronic Music Studio, WDR, Cologne. Version révisée numérisée / Digitalized and revised version : Jean-Claude Eloy (2001). Durée totale / Total duration : CD1: 68'19" - CD2: 73'20". Packaged in a 6 panel digipak. Includes a 16 page booklet in French & English.