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Francois Bayle – La Forme de l’Esprit est un Papillon
Review coming later. Label: Magison Cycle Bayle Volume 18 Catalog Number: MGCB 1804 Format: CD Packaging: Digi-Pak Tracks: 6 Total Time: 56:40 Country: France Released: 2004 Related Artists: Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, Pierre…
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Francois Bayle – Toupie Dans le Ciel
This is a CD-EP re-issue of a track from Volume 1 called “Toupie Dans le Ciel” (1979), which is my favorite piece ever by this composer. Pleasantly washing and pinging electronics shiver loosely…
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Francois Bayle – La Forme du Temps est un Cercle
La Forme du Temps est un Cercle is an hour-long piece from 1999-2001, and another stunning tapestry full of running water, crowds, crickets, whistles, church bells, bird song, flutes and general hammering mayhem—all…
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Francois Bayle – Camera Oscura + Espaces Inhabitables
Camera Oscura + Espaces Inhabitables is one of the better Francois Bayle discs of recent memory. Echoing footsteps, bouncing ping pong balls, oceans of rattling objects and typical obsessive attention to detail thoroughly…
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Francois Bayle – Jeita + L’infini du Bruit
“Jeita” (1970) originally appeared on an LP in the mythical Silver Series on Philips in the early ’70s. This piece was assembled out of sound material partly recorded in front of a live…
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Francois Bayle – Morceaux de Ciels + Theatre d’Ombres
Large, black, beautifully simple brush strokes are splayed across a delicate haze of pink and yellow on the double fold-out digi-pak of this new volume—François Bayle’s best cover artwork so far. “Morceaux de…
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Francois Bayle – Motion-Emotion
The first EP-length entry in the Cycle Bayle Series is this 22-minute piece from 1985 in a nice digipak. “Can we hear the pure movement that rouses a sound being? Perceive this movement…
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Francois Bayle – Son Vitesse-Lumiere
Continuing to fill in gaps of the proposed complete Cycle Bayle Series of 18 volumes, this impressive double digipak houses a sprawling set of music from the early ’80s. Like the CD reissue…
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Francois Bayle – La Main Vide
Volume 8 contains one work in three parts from the mid ’90s. “Baton de Pluie” (1993-94) starts out with a dense power drone and stops abruptly for almost 20 minutes of intricately tossing…
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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…
