Label: Sub Rosa - SR418

"水中音楽"のコンセプトでよく知られているフランスのエレクトロアコースティック作曲家、そして1969年設立された実験音楽センターGMEMの立ち上げ人の一人でもあるMichel Redolfi。80年INA-GRMから発表の1st LP[Immersion / Pacific Tubular Waves]が有名ですが、本作はその後88年にCDフォーマットで発表された3rdアルバム[Desert Tracks]。 Luc Ferrari、Bernard Parmegiani、Pierre Henry、Jean-Claude Rissetという重鎮勢と共同制作もしていた人物であり、本作はカリフォルニアの砂漠地帯の環境音をマテリアルとした87年制作の多層風景コンクレート。元よりアンビエント色の強い作風も得意としている為、全体通してスッと入ってくる不思議な心地良さが漂います。CD版にのみ5曲目[Too Much Sky]をボーナスで追加。







In 1987, Michel Redolfi hit the California Desert road during the Fall, to catch those hypothetical poly-sensorial desert tones. He visited the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Palm Canyon and came back with an extraordinary album of early electronic music, sparse and bright to express the crude light and the divine silences.

In 1969, with the co-foundation of the GMEM, Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, Michel Redolfi pursued his passion for electro-acoustic music at an early age. During the 80s and 90s he composed collaborative works with Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, Pierre Henry and Jean-Claude Risset.
Resident of the United States from 1973 to 1984, he carried out his research with several new music centers, including the CME at the University of California in San Diego and California Institute of the Arts.

Also during this period he developed several collaborations with American composers. The natural elements highlighted by technology are a constant in Redolfi's catalogue: many electroacoustic pieces stylize and orchestrate sound matter, recorded in remote locations (Pacific Tubular Waves, Desert Tracks, Jungle).
He currently heads a major studio in sound design, Audionaute, based in Nice, France.