Label: Creel Pone CP 249

多くのライブラリ音源の出版で知られるイタリアCAMのシリーズものとして1973年に出版された、本国の作曲家Marcello Giombiniによる二つのLP[Overground] & [Synthomania]。電子音楽以外にも世俗音楽や映画音楽を手掛けた人物であり、この2作ではその多彩さを見事に融合させたミニマル・エレクトロニクス & アンビエントを構築。不安定なピッチな揺れとコミカルな動きが面白いリズムトラックや、現行のダークアンビエントともリンクする仄暗いシンセ作等、全24に及ぶ小曲が纏められています。



A few years back, when this current, third-wave of Production Library revivalism began to take root, I was surprised to see such a fuss being made over Giombini's "Astromusic Synthesizer" (a later, early 80s Forever library much in the vein of Mort Garson & Paul Beaver's "Zodiac;" in the same way as Goblin's "Suspiria" is in the vein of "Tubular Bells") which was the subject of the multiple, warring factions of simultaneous bootleg pressings that usually define a zeitgeist nowhere near in sync.

Surprise, mainly as I had always considered Giombo's two early-70s CAM (Creazioni Artistiche Musicali) libraries as the high-water marks of the series (of course, alongside Andrés Lewin Richter's "Space Electronics / Ligatures / Electronic Mystery", Vittorio Marino's "Fugue of Light", the seemingly endless wave of Giampiero Boneschi "A New Sensation In Sound" sub/series and of course the towering "Industriale • Ecologico" comp; the rest are trash) far worthier of the same attention and rampant historical revivalism.

Lo and behold; here is a fine replica covering both of said, sandwiched neatly onto a single-disc (CAM's tend to be shorter; the TRT is just over an hour) presented as issued in 1973 as CML-032 & 033, respectively; voila.