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Artist:	PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE
Title:	Charlemagne at Sonnabend
Label:	CP RECORDS (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	C@S 2001

"First time available 2CD set of the Charlemagne Palestine performances at Sonnabend Gallery, New York City, 2001. Privately issued by the composer and exclusively distributed by Alga Marghen. The first contact between Charlemagne Palestine and the Sonnabends took place in Paris with Simone Forti. It was 1972 and collaboration immediately started. Soon after Charlemagne created a sound installation at their gallery on rue Mazarine in Paris and then, when they decided to move to West Broadway Soho and leave Paris, they asked the composer to inaugurate their new Soho address by creating a double disk, '4 manifestations on 6 elements'. The Sonnabends organised several concerts and installations with Charlemagne until the middle seventies. Some time after the composer gave up performances and his sculpture was presented more in Europe than America. At the end of the nineties a new meeting happened and the Sonnabends announced that they had decided to leave Soho for a bigger space in Chelsea and proposed again for Charlemagne Palestine to create a disk. This time it was agreed to record a series of performances done directly in their new space on 22nd street and so Charlemagne at Sonnabend was born. The 2 disks comprise a private performance recorded at their gallery 2 days before the concerts on a Sunday (which is disk one) and the second disk comprises the 2 live performances recorded on the following Tuesday and Wednesday middle of September 2000. All the performances are played on a Bosendorfer Imperial piano."

Artist:	PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE
Title:	Godbear/Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn
Label:	CP RECORDS (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$34.00
Catalog #:	CP 002/3CD

"Originally released on the Barooni label and sold out since a long time. Charlemagne Palestine and Alga Marghen have decided to make the two CDs available in a new 2CD set edition. The CDs are a new print of the original ones, both included in a newly designed slipcase. Godbear. Flying. In the stratosphere of the overtones. Turn out the lights. Close your eyes. Trance out. Into SONORAMAGNIFICATALAND. Pushed by Remy Martin cognac, the piano would replay the encoded performances exactly in three parts. 'Strumming'. 'Lower Depths'. 'Timbral Assault'. A re-evaluation of work from the seventies, recorded in the eighties, released in the late nineties and available on CP Records now. A long fuckin' journey, don't cha think? Nuf said! Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn. Charlemagne Palestine recordings on the 5th of September 1997, on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, of the Jamaica Day Parade. With a small Sony DAT player and a small stereo microphone, Palestine walked throughout the festival very slowly for several hours to let the ambient sounds of each block naturally change in real time. The 60+ minutes segment on this record is played without any editing. Superimposed upon this extract Palestine has composed three series of drone textures for Yamaha organs, 16 Serge & Rubery oscillators with bandpass filtering, and a thick Arp Synthesizer texture using oscillators, filters and other sound modulation devices. All together this work creates a dialogue between pure and mixed electronics and the real-time ambient sounds of a traditional urban ethnographic popular festival. Edition of 500 copies."

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