Label: Creel Pone

1971年に有名な銀ジャケシリーズprospective 21e siecleの一枚としてリリースされたPierre Henryの名作。脳波電導システムを用いて人の脳波を巨大なアナログシンセサイザーへ投入、それらを音響合成して作られた図太い爆裂電子ビープ音。このローファイな感触も素晴らしい。



A bit more information re: the Creel Pone puzzle. These are and will continue to be small-batch CD-r editions reproducing highly covetable and otherwise un-available Early-Electronic and Synth-Freakout LPs from the private collection of one Mr. P.C. C.P. - some of you Reckankomplex followers might remember he was our prior Webmaster and in-house DJ.

Each Creel Pone comes complete in a 5” crystal clear resealable polypropylene jacket containing a high-quality full-color photo-stock print of the original LP sleeve and a cool inkjet printed white top / black bottom disc housed in its own high density round bottom CDsleeve.The audio in each case has been expertly restored from the original Vinyl source at 24-bit resolution, removing all non-essential surface noise and ground-hum - although, and certainly in the case of this title given the original LP's scarcity, there will be a click /pop or two from time to time. So ... not your average grey-area needle-drop reissues but in fact something much, much nicer - the love certainly does shine through.

And the hits keep on coming - long my favorite Pierre Henry record, baffling that it was never included in one of those umpteen multi-disc box-sets on Philips from the late 90s. In the twilight days of the 1970s Henry, with the assistance of the mysterious Roger Lafosse, built a brainwave-conduction system which he placed on the heads of various individuals, feeding the resultant voltages into a giant synthesizer. The concept being that the “Composer” of the music was the one to whom the transducers were affixed. Hearing the music - inarguably Henry’s fiercest and most unrelenting bit of pure analog skree - it’s understandable that this process never sparked an auto-electroacoustic-composition movement.

Originally issued in a beautiful silver / black foil-stamped sleeve - reproduced wonderfully here - as part of the illustrious Prospective 21e Siècle series on Philips. Mind-slaying and so incredibly aggressive for a record from 1970. Fans of the current wave of free-electronic noise-blat - Wolf Eyes, Peter B., Nautical Almanac, et.al - will find much herein to convulse over.