Label: Creel Pone

メチャクチャ貴重な作品！！1964年に設立されたソ連の国営レーベルであるMelodiya。ここから60年代末頃に出版されていた初期ロシアの電子音楽諸作を纏め上げたCreel Pone独自の編集V.A。主にEMS Synthi 100を用いた音源で構成されており、どんよりとしたエレクトリック・サウンドスケープやら、ドビュッシー、モンテヴェルディ、パレスチナ作品の合成アレンジなど、手探りの状況で制作されたと思われる奇怪で面白い音源が満載。オリジナルジャケットを全種掲載したスリーヴも良い。





This was the 23rd of the ca. 2003 "Proto Creel Pone" titles, collecting three conceptually-aligned collections of Early Russian Electronic Music issued on the State-run label Мелодия (Melodiya), centered around the work of ANS Synthesizer architect Евгений Мурзин (Yevgeny Murzin) & involving composers Станислав Крейчи (Stanislav Kreitchi), Эдуард Артемьев (Eduard Artemyev, a few years before his alliance w/ Андрей Тарковский [Andrei Tarkovsky]), А. Немтин (Alexander Nemtin), Шандор Каллош (Sándor Kallós), Олег Булошкин (Oleg Buloshkin), София Губaйдулина (Sofia Gubaidulina), Эдисон Васильевич Денисов (Edison Denisov), Альфред Шнитке (Alfred Schnittke), Юрий Богданов (Yuri Bogdanov), & Владимир Иванович Мартынов (Vladimir Martynov).

The first two sets were largely composed utilizing the ANS photo-optical synthesizer ("Метаморфозы" is largely EMS Synthi 100) & the music here ranges from purely research-oriented soundscapes to (of course) synthesized arrangements of pieces by Debussy, Monteverdi, Прокофьев (Prokofiev), & Bach... that said, my prior predilection towards downplaying this sort of "Moogsploitation" completely unwarranted here given then next-level arrangements & attention paid to timbral & patch-details (frankly, many of the original pieces are all but unrecognizable).