Label: Creel Pone

"水中音楽"で知られるMichel Redolfiも立ち上げに関わった1969年設立されたフランスの実験音楽センターGMEM。ここから私家版的に出版されていた、地元の若き音楽家やグループの作品を纏めた激レアV.A[La Page A Musique]。オリジナルはいつ頃出版されたのか不明な作品(機材やスタッフのクレジットから察するに80年代初期に録音されたものらしい)であり、内容はGMEMに出入りしていたJacques Diennet、Lucien Bertolina、Martine Olivares、Patrick Portella、4名の作曲家が、インプロヴィゼーション、ミュージックコンクレート、ドローン等、自由な手法に取り組んだもの。特にA面を構成する2つのボーカルと電子持続音による[Improvisation1、2]が激ヤバ。



January 2023; Inaugurating the C.P. "Shorts" sub-series (featuring newly discovered titles that are less than 30m total, at a premium) here is a replica edition of an undated (although I'm guessing from the equipment & personnel credits this was recorded in the early 80s) "Private" gatefold issued by the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille (aka the GMEM; now the gmem-CNCM-marseille) covering the group's work with Provence-area youth musicians.

Much in the spirit of Basil Kirchin's "Worlds Within Worlds 3 & 4" the deft, often invisible touch of the group's in-house Composers Jacques Diennet, Lucien Bertolina, Martine Olivares, & Patrick Portella serves to only enhance and highlight just how great the discovery & joy of Experimental Music can be. The two extended vocal-drone pieces that make up the A-Side wouldn't be out of place of any number of contemporary albums, and the chopped & screwed Casionics that (impossibly, largely) make up the B-Side certainly have much en ligne w/ the fantastic Glenn Williams title ([CP 208 CD]) in their raw, unbridled application of free forms & structures around the possibilities of the Tape-Studio.

This C.P. edition fully replicates the gorgeous design & art-spec of the original, down to all of the writing & detail evident in the inner Gatefold panels, represented across a 6-panel booklet shrouded in UV Coating. A remarkable set of recordings available once again, and for the princely sum-equivalent of a (decent, qualified) sandwich.