PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE — Voice Studies
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Sehr frühe Experimente (von Anfang der 60er!) mit Stimme & primitiven Tape-Loops ("Surrealistic Studies"), zwei "Voice & Piano-Studies" von 1971, ebenfalls mit verfremdeten Gesang, und weitere Experimente mit mehreren Gesangstimmen von Mitte der Sechziger (ein "Kopfstimmen-Duo mit sich selbst") inspiriert von jüdischem Sakral-Gesang). Obskur & schön, der ganz frühe PALESTINE. Dunkelgrünes Vinyl.
"The VocSon series presents on limited editions LP records the most advanced international vocal experiments and is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. This series includes now the new LP record by Charlemagne Palestine titled 'Voice Studies'. This LP record includes the very early 'Surrealistic Studies', recorded in Brooklyn in the beginning of the 1960s using a Webcor reel to reel tape recorder and discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone of the recorder and immediately pulling the microphone out creating an interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, changing and distorting. No other electronic sound manipulation techniques were used. 'Voice + Piano Study I & II' are short and beautiful piano improvisation with tape superimposition of accelerated voice pieces. Recorded at Cal Arts, on September 29th, 1971. 'Voice Study' was recorded in Manhattan in the mid-1960s. In this Study Charlemagne sing in a falsetto duet with himself on two separate tracks. Sung in a resonant space reminiscent of a Synagogue in the falsetto voice that he began to develop from Jewish male sacred chant falsettos. He searches for intervals that resonate together and respond like electronic sound wave oscilators played against eachother. Finally the fantastic 6 minutes 'Beauty Chord + Voice' with Charlemagne playing piano and singing." [label info]
"The VocSon series presents on limited editions LP records the most advanced international vocal experiments and is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. This series includes now the new LP record by Charlemagne Palestine titled 'Voice Studies'. This LP record includes the very early 'Surrealistic Studies', recorded in Brooklyn in the beginning of the 1960s using a Webcor reel to reel tape recorder and discovering a technique of shouting into the microphone of the recorder and immediately pulling the microphone out creating an interior echo chamber where the sound would turn around on itself, changing and distorting. No other electronic sound manipulation techniques were used. 'Voice + Piano Study I & II' are short and beautiful piano improvisation with tape superimposition of accelerated voice pieces. Recorded at Cal Arts, on September 29th, 1971. 'Voice Study' was recorded in Manhattan in the mid-1960s. In this Study Charlemagne sing in a falsetto duet with himself on two separate tracks. Sung in a resonant space reminiscent of a Synagogue in the falsetto voice that he began to develop from Jewish male sacred chant falsettos. He searches for intervals that resonate together and respond like electronic sound wave oscilators played against eachother. Finally the fantastic 6 minutes 'Beauty Chord + Voice' with Charlemagne playing piano and singing." [label info]