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Artist:	TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title:	Une Eclipse Totale de Soleil
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 005CD

2009 repress of this classic from 1997. "The first record released by Ghedalia Tazartes in 1979. Far away from contemporary music intellectualisms or from synthetical noise purists, this was certainly one of the most original and creative records of the 70s featuring a new form of musical expression...the value of this work was underestimated and only a few people had a chance to listen to its beautiful music. Now, due to the new growing interest, Alga Marghen has taken the decision to reprint all Tazartes records, starting with his first work. Originally conceived in two parts, Une Eclipse... has been remastered and is now integrated by a 25 minute new piece ('Part III'), composed expressly for this CD." A unique record, utilizing collage, strange vocals by Tazartes, trance-ethno backing splices, droning organ and childish naivete, in a spirit all of its own.

Artist:	TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title:	Tazartès' Transports
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 011CD

2009 repress of this 2nd CD, originally released 1998. "Probably represents the most original example of the artist's poetical and personal approach to sound organisation. The material of the first track, which gives also the title to this CD, was recorded in 1977 at the artist's own studio in Paris; the CD reprint of this mixed atmospheres masterpiece is followed by 'Transports 1' and 'Transports 2', both composed in 1997 for a theatre piece. We are here in front of a different kind of transport, where the more complex and powerful sound material contributes to create the dense, monolithic structure of these previously unreleased tracks. 'Elie', a piano piece performed in duo with the composer's young daughter, brings a poetic and more relaxing magic to end the program."

Artist:	TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title:	Granny Awards
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 036LP

"alga marghen was the first label to issue on CD the 4 record LPs that Ghedalia Tazartes privately produced between the late 1970s and early 1980s, therefore contributing to the diffusion of this music among the new generations. At the same time Ghedalia Tazartes' music defined the high standard level of the alga marghen label in its early days. These great recordings are still available in their original CD editions and no surprise that alga marghen has now the privilege to bring you the pleasure of listening to a previously unpublished LP recently discovered in the artist's archives. Side 1 features 'Ferme ta gueule, Zarathustra' (i.e. 'Shut Up, Zarathustra') a long track constructed by several fragments recorded in the early 1980s that would have later composed, with different editings, some of the best parts of 'Une eclipse totale de soleil'. On side 2 we find five shorter tracks titled 'Whatever', 'Works', 'Singing', 'Wild', 'My Rock Ghedalia'. Recorded in the artist's own studio in his anhydridic Paris, these pieces are based on materials pre-dating Ghedalia Tazartes first LP Diasporas and were re-elaborated in the early 1980s to be included in this lost work of art. Ghedalia Tazartes is a nomad. The author and his doubles work without a net, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. He is also one of the most original artists in the sonic art scene. In these last years when cheap low-level editions are produced by kitsch-on-demand labels which can nothing but copy, falsificate and propose expensive tasteless boxsets, alga marghen brings you the 'original' edition of this wonderful music. Edition limited to 450 copies."

Artist:	TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title:	Diasporas/Tazartes
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	ALGA 053CD

2009 repress. "More than 5 years after the CD edition of Eclipse totale de soleil and Transportes, Alga Marghen finally decided to also reissue the first and the forth LP by Ghedalia Tazartes including both on one CD. Ghedalia Tazartes is a nomad. He wanders through music from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. He paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian anhydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. Don't become a black, an Arab, a Tibetan monk, a Jew, a woman or an animal but to feel all this stirring deep inside of you. The greatest trips are made in the deep end of the throat: the extra-European music open the ear to Ghedalia's intra-European exotism. Where was music before music halls? Where was the voice before it learned how to speak? Ghedalia is the orchestra and a pop group all in one person: the self is multitude and others. The author and his doubles work without a net, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. The permanent metamorphosis is a principle of composition, it escapes control, refuses classification. To hell with the technocrates of noise and the purists of synthetic culture. All art like all true mythology use a double clavier, playing nature and culture, feeling and the distance of the flesh, death. Off limits!"

Artist:	TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title:	Les Danseurs de la Pluie/Tazartès' Transports...
Label:	ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
Format:	4CD
Price:	$60.00
Catalog #:	ALGA GTBOX1

...Une Éclipse Total De Soleil/Diasporas Tazartès. 2009 repress, originally released 2006. "This anthology includes the complete Ghedalia Tazartes recordings previously issued on CD by Alga Marghen, plus a new mini-CD titled Les Danseurs de la Pluie. Diasporas-Tazartes is the CD edition of Tazartes' first and fourth LPs. Transports is the CD edition of Tazartes' second LP with four bonus tracks. Une Eclipse Total de Soleil is the CD edition of Tazartes' third LP with a long bonus track. Les Danseurs de la Pluie, which gives title to the complete anthology, is a 12-minute mini-CD, presented on creative disc, including four previously unavailable tracks. Two 1977 killer recordings from the 'Eclipse Totale' sessions of a very wild and residential nature; and two colossal new pieces recorded in 2005."

Artist:	TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title:	Repas Froid
Label:	PAN (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$25.50
Catalog #:	PAN 017LP

An extraordinary combination of culled found and taped fragments juxtaposed against drums, field recordings and mystery noises, sound loops, birdsong, keyboards and emanations of Ghédalia Tazartès' own throaty drones and voice propelled by hypnotic, ritualistic rhythms balanced on a razor-sharp edge. This is the complete work of Repas Froid; previously released on CD in 2009 as brief tracks of source material and a palette of various sounds. It includes archival and as of yet previously-unreleased recordings from the late 1970s and early 1980s, strung together to form two long compositions. A French musician of Turkish parentage, Ghédalia Tazartès is an uncompromising character who defies categorization. Born in 1947 in Paris, he is one of France's most idiosyncratic talents. He has spent over 30 years within musical practice and experimentation, letting his musical work wander from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. Manipulating magnetic tape recorders into a rough collage and loose ethno-instrumental mulch, he paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian anhydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, in a limited edition repress of 350 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.

Artist:	TAZARTES, GHEDALIA
Title:	Works 1977-79
Label:	VINYL ON DEMAND (GERMANY)
Format:	4LP BOX/10"
Price:	$138.00
Catalog #:	VOD 091LP

"4LP-box with 10" Tazartes' Transports, Tazartes, Diaspora, Une Eclipse Totale De Soleil, and Quelque Part Quelqu'un. The French artist and autodidact Ghedalia Tazartes who is born in Paris in 1947 is a true nomad spending more than 30 years within musical practice and experimentation. Ghedalia is the orchestra and a pop group all in one person: the self is multitude and others, freely connecting the sounds, the rhythms, his voice, his voices. The extra-European music opens the ear to Ghedalia's intra-European exotism. The permanent metamorphosis is a principle of composition; it escapes control, refuses classification, diametrical to the purists of synthetic culture and technocrates of noise. He wanders through music from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. Utilizing magnetic tape recorders, he paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian anhydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. This box concentrates on his early works from 1977-1979 and his four officially released vinyl-LP's plus a 10" of an unreleased work from 1978. All the material is superbly remastered for vinyl by Anders Peterson of ghostsounds.net, pushing the overall quality and dimension in sound to an amazing new level and experience."

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