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Francois Bayle + Bernard Parmegiani – Divine Comedie
This is a collaborative 2-CD set with Bernard Parmegiani on one disc and François Bayle on the other. The effort here is to shove Dante’s work into your noggin via electro-acoustic means. Parm’s…
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Francois Bayle – L’Experience Acoustique
Ping-ponging back and forth between decades, we once again journey back to the early ’70s. The noisy, recognizable sounds on disc one are in pretty marked contrast to more recent, lighter efforts like…
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Francois Bayle – Fabulae
Volume 4 jumps forward two decades with four shorter compositions (in the 10 to 16-minute range) from 1990-92. “Fabula” contains some of the composer’s most lightweight images to date—vaguely as if some new…
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Francois Bayle – Vibrations Composees + Grande Polyphonie
After visiting the late ’70s and late ’80s on Volumes 1 and 2 respectively, we jump clear back to the early ’70s on Volume 3. The sounds on these two pieces are largely…
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Francois Bayle – Theatre d’Ombres + Mimameta
Even more complex and detailed than Erosphere, this rare, out-of-print CD contains two pieces from the late ’80s that are the most shining displays of virtuosic electro-acoustic sound manipulation from the master. “Théatre…
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Francois Bayle – Erosphere
I plumb the depths of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Eight hundred feet below the surface of planet Earth, my Discman is blasting this CD. The multiple layers of complex sound fabrics splaying…
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Charles Amirkhanian – Walking Tune
Charles Amirkhanian is a composer, sound poet, percussionist and radio producer who “incorporates sampled acoustic environmental sounds and traditional musical pitched sounds to develop dreamscapes which act as disjunct narratives. His work introduces…
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Carlos Roque Alsina – Hinterland
Carlos Roque Alsina is a pianist and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina who’s been working mostly with instrumental music since the late ’50s. Apparently, his affair with electronic music started at the begining…
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Vajra – Live 2007
First-ever live album. Review coming later. Label: PSF Catalog Number: PSFD-176 Format: CD Packaging: Jewel case Tracks: 7 Total Time: 70:37 Country: Japan Released: 2008 Related Artists: Fushitsusha, Keiji Haino More: Forced Exposure,…
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Vajra – Mandala Cat
Fifth album from the heavyweight PSF supergroup of Keiji Haino, Kan Mikami and Toshiaki Ishizuka. Veterans all, the group members have a combined playing career of virtually a century. The group has been…
