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Artist:	BONNIER, BERNARD
Title:	Casse-tęte
Label:	ORAL (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ORAL 023CD

"This reissue brings to listeners of concrete and electro-acoustic musics and to all those with deep ears a fleuron of Canadian auto production. It enlightens the exemplary work of composer Bernard Bonnier, born in Montreal in 1952, who died in 1994 in Lévis, Québec, at the early age of 41 years. Bernard Bonnier had a good time, literally, when he accomplished this atypical and cheerful disc. Casse-tęte is a bizarre and enjoyable music world conceived with various percussions and electronic instruments. In 1984, the year of its release, five years after its creation, it appeared as quite a foolish record. It may still remain like that today. As some of his contemporaries -- Robert Moog, Jean-Jacques Perrey or Raymond Scott -- Bernard Bonnier produced strange and funny sounds out of computers and synthesizers in his Saint-Jean Chrysostôme's studio, Amaryllis. Following the steps of Pierre Henry with whom he collaborated from 1970 until 1975 -- he collaborates on Cortical Art 3 -- the composer explores and dares. He composes songs which wobble between the seriousness of his musique concrete education and the playful exploration of the existent possibilities of the musics of his time. Blending field recordings, mid '70s Quebec Jerk, powerful sense of 'dance' music, extra humor and auto derision, he defines his musical language, unique and powerful. The impact of such a hybrid work remains strong for the curious minds despite the passing years. Forgotten by the most, his death in a young age not helping to build his notability, Bernard Bonnier however gave to the world one of Canada's most brilliant exploratory records, Casse-tęte. For those who enjoy: Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Christian Clozier, Jacques Lejeune, Perrey & Kingsley, Jean-Pierre Massiera, Cluster, Felix Kubin, Patrick Catani, Ergo Phizmiz, Shazam."

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