Label: Cor Ardens - CA-02

VitrineおよびPhinery Tapesからのカセット作品の頃から個人的に注目をしていた、音のみならず独特の視点からのアプローチを行う作家Jim Strongがレーベルを始動！！ 本作はフランスのインダストリアルバンドであるVox Populi!の87年アルバム[Half Half Ganja Music]と、フィラデルフィアのアートギャラリーであるVox Populi Galleryの30周年を記念して制作された未発表音源集。80年代録音の音源を軸とした17曲からなる編集盤ですが、やはりJim Strong監修という事で異様な雰囲気がアルバム全体に漂います。激激オススメ。



Edition of 200 CDs
Featured track "NEY" previously unreleased

This Project was conceived through the correspondence of Vox Populi’s Axel Kyrou and Jim Strong. It serves to commemorate the 30th anniversaries of both the founding of the Philadelphia art collective, Vox Populi Gallery in 1988 and the release of Half Dead Ganja Music, the seminal 1987 album by Vox Populi!. Vox Populi! Emerged out of the eighties Industrial Underground in Paris. The Group’s mercurial experimentation was deeply influenced by Spirituality and Surrealism. They were further set apart for the incorporation of Folk Instrumentation and Influences derived from the diverse origins of the bands members.
The selections included on “Half Alive Ganja Music” characteristically range all over the map from the Lush Pop Psychedelia of the lead single “Ney” to the albums closer, a Sprawling Live Outtake which Ebbs and Flows between the Bubbling electronics of half formed Art Song Crescendo through long passages of Ritual tinged Improvisation. Both Tracks, Comprise the 5 never before released recordings which make this (double) anniversary collection so special.