Label: Creel Pone

電子音楽入門として個人的にも全シリーズを聴き込んだ、米Turnaboutが60~70年代に手掛けたElectronic Musicシリーズ。出版された全5巻を全て網羅、その他Morton Subotnick、John Eaton、Ilhan Mimaroglu等による関連作2種を追加した、Creel Pone編集のTurnabout電子音楽アーカイヴ!!オリジナルは現在でも比較的入手しやすい盤ばかりですが、7タイトルすべてのアートワークを並べた6パネルスリーヴ、オリジナルのライナーノーツを読みやすいスケールで拡大したモノクロインサート、まさにCreel Poneらしいマニア向けの拘った仕様が兎に角イイ。





This was the 22nd of the ca. 2003 "Proto Creel Pone" titles... and if you're sensing a theme, you're right (why not go for 3 in a row?) A compendium of all five of the (initially) Mimaroğlu-curated & produced compilations of Early Electronic Music released by VOX-Turnabout: "Electronic Music" (#TV 34004, 1965), "Electronic Music" (#TV 34046, 1966), "Electronic Music III" (#TV 34177, 1967), "Electronic Music IV" (#TV 34301, 1968), & "Electronic Music V" (#TV 34427, 1972) featuring work from Andrés Lewin-Richter, Tzvi Avni, Wendy Carlos, John Cage, Luciano Berio, & Jacob Druckman across the first three, then an incredibly prescient selection of works by then up-and-coming Composers across the last two volumes (covering three years of the Jon Appleton-juried "International Electronic Music Competition" at Dartmouth) including Olly Wilson, William Hellermann, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Pril Smiley, Bohdan Mazurek, Jozef Malovec, Peter Glushanok, Peter Klausmeyer, Raymond Moore, José Vicente Asuar, Richard Allan Robinson, & Jean-Claude Risset.

In addition to the entirety of the 5-volume series, the C.P. P.T.B. are here including a trio of Electronic works initially offered on adjacent (literally, #TV 34428 & 34429, both 1971) titles by Morton Subotnick, John Eaton, and Mimaroglu, bringing the TRT up to an impressive just-shy-of-4-hours of music! This C.P. edition offers the artwork of all seven titles across a six-panel high-detail booklet, along with a separate outsize 6-panel monochrome insert blowing up the rear-panel liner notes & details to a readable scale.