Label: Creel Pone

1972年にフランスのPathe Marconi EMIよりリリースされていたBernard ParmegianiとJoseph Mariaのスプリット盤。両者オンド・マルトノの使用しており、69年のParmegianiのは割とノイジーな電子音楽を、一方68年のJoseph Mariaはパーカッションなども用い空間演奏からモンドっぽい事までやってます。Josep M. Mestres Quadrenyの1971年LPを追加した2CD-R拡張版。





2021 reédition of this all-timer mid-period C.P. classic, now augmented with Mestres-Quadreny's 1971 Edigsa-label (check CP 254 for more Edigsa action) "Doble Concert, Invenció Movil II, Quartet De Catroc, Micos I Papallones" set (also featuring an Ondes Martenot piece performed by Arlette Sibon-Simonovitch alongside a series of Kagel-esque extended-technique masterpieces performed by Siegfrieds Behrends & Fink) along with two early Electro-Acoustic pieces by Mestres-Quadreny, "Peça Per A Serra Mecànica" (1964) & "El Teler De Teresa Codina" (1973) & a painstaking restoration of Parmegiani's thought-to-be long-lost score to Robert Lapoujade's 1968 Experimental Film "Socrate" (from a less-than-stellar source; my condolences) on a second disc (alas the C.P. P.T.B. could not find a copy of the Kiosque D'Orphee single, even if the artwork of said is neatly presented here; instead you get the entire audio track of the 60-minute Jacqueline Plessis edit, with the sections of Roger Hanin's "commentary" edited out) featuring French Free-Jazz titans Jean-Louis Chautemps, Michel Portal, Gilbert Rovère, Charles Saudrais, & Bernard Vitet!

Long one of my all-time Holy Grail cannot-find-a-copy titles is the LP in question here; the 1969 EMI-label Arlette Sibon-Simonovitch recital / vehicle “Espaces Sonores Nº 1”, offering a side of specially commissioned pieces each by spanish composer Josep(h)-Maria Mestres-Quadreny & INA-GRM heavy Bernard Parmegiani.

Just the idea that Parmegiani had composed a tape piece using only Sibon-Simonovitch’s virtuoso Ondes Martenot playing was enough to make me sweat; that it ended up being one of his finest, cutting some woofer-rattling square-wave droning with sheer batshit blasts of white-hot static & space-age, upper-register lacings of electronic filigree only makes this issue a sheer essential for the Parmegiani buff - mainly as it’s not included on the recent “Complete Works” box !!!

Was half-expecting the Mestres-Quadreny pieces to be fluff - unfit for such a heady pairing - but frankly the levels of free percussive bombast (Sylvio Gualda, as always, sounds fantastic throughout) & almost Alice Coltrane-esque Ondes Martenot fluidity make them the perfect “Humanist” counterpoint to the A-side’s largely alien lanes.