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PARMEGIANI, BERNARD - Chants Magnetiques

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Fractal Records fractal 180 Release Year: 2006 Note: CD re-issue of famous album from 1974, incredible sounds & moods ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Bereits 22 Jahre haben diese raren Tape-Kompositionen des französischen Akusmatikers auf dem Buckel (einst Kollege von Xenakis, Henry und Ferrari im INA-GRM Studio). Es handelt sich keinesfalls um schnell geschluckte Musik. Die Geräusche entfalten sich nach Parmegiani parallel und im Gegenüber des konkreten oder hyperkonkreten Kopfkinos. Beide bedingen sich und können einander erhellen, natürlich überwiegt beim Musiker die Hingabe zum Ohr, speziell zum sehenden Ohr, das neben dem hörenden Auge, den Zugang zu diesem schwierigen, verknoteten Werk erleichtern kann. Metallisch und paranoid schwingende Verschiebungen und post-pataphysische Metamorphosen, gewunden und in Vibration gehalten von glasklaren, auf den Punkt gebrachten Geräusch-Ereignissen. Komplex gewölbte Strukturen erscheinen, lassen ihre Energie ab, verstummen. Todd Dockstader, Hecker und Farmers Manual kommen in den Sinn, aber auch die Raumverschiebungen vom Hafler Trio und die sich nach Außen abkehrenden Synthstrukturen Peter Christophersons werden vorweg genommen. Endlos spannend, saugut." [Erik Benndorf] "French musician Bernard Parmegiani has composed 'Chants magnétiques' in 1974, one of the most sough after Bernard Parmegiani's album - a monster rarity which is almost impossible to find. This obscure album was composed around the same time as 'De natura sonorum' during the mid-seventies, a particularly important and effervescent era for Bernard Parmegiani. Indeed, as if one can say that 'De natura sonorum' is one of the best Parmegiani's 'serious' works in terms of technics-sound-harmonic-tone, then there is no doubt that 'Chants magnétiques' is his chef-d'œuvre on his 'dark side', the 'Parmegiani's hidden face' that few peoples knows nowadays. A collection of 10 united tracks under the title album name 'Chants magnétiques-magnetic fields' - titled before Jean Michel Jarre's album - and musically, in summary, more experimental, more organic, more spacey in compare to his famous INA-GRM works." [press release] "....Favoring an acousmatic strategy that reveals sound in a manner that sublimates its origins, Parmegiani is best known for his grandiose 'La Creation Du Monde' whereby the composer attempts to address the sound that predates the Big Bang, as well as its polyphonous explosion through a constantly spiralling thrum of electronic vibration. Chants Magnetiques (which translates as Magnetic Fields, and Fractal is quick to point out that this album precedes the Jean Michel Jarre album of the same name by several years) is easily the darkest album in Parmegiani's body of work; and perhaps, the paranoiac dualities of Chants Magnetiques were the reason for its obscure status for so long. The opening round of erratic electric squiggles slides into a languid drone of sustained strings, whilst a robotic hammering strikes against what sounds like springloaded doors. Occasionally chipper but usually damaged electronic percolations and atonal blasts of prog organs intermingle with sheet metal cacophony and convulsive buzzings, only to sulk into subterranean layers of sound haunted by mad scientist chords on the organ and spooky atmospherics that never sound cheesy in spite of the references. The entire composition is executed with an incredible precision and complexity, easily positioning tself as a clear influence upon the later work of Autechre. One not to miss." [Aquarius Records]