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ARTIST
PALESTINE & SIMONE FORTI, CHARLEMAGNE
TITLE
Meditative Sound Environments
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ALGA MARGHEN
CATALOG #
VOCSON 161LP
VOCSON 161LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
5/13/2022
Alga Marghen presents the second and final chapter in documenting
Charlemagne Palestine
and
Simone Forti
seminal collaborations. The
Meditative Sound Environments
LP is more centered around electronic music and also includes a unique two-voice work based on Simone's chanting, the magically suspended "Simone Tape". All the tracks of this new LP present only previously unreleased recordings. Charlemagne Palestine met Simone Forti through
Dr. Richard Alpert
, a professor at Columbia University who went to India to study with a Hindu guru and he himself became a guru afterwards called
Baba Ram Dass
. Coming back to US he brought
Pandit Pran Nath
with him. It was a time when everybody was experimenting. All came with a lot of orientalism because people were into timelessness, meditation, and being stoned. It was in that atmosphere that Charlemagne met Simone because she also knew Pran Nath. Around that time Palestine moved from NY to California to work with electronic music at the newly invented school California Institute of the Arts. Simone was also living in LA and even though she was not officially connected to CalArts she knew many of the artists who were teaching there. In summer 1970 Simone Forti was invited by
Allan Kaprow
(one of the Deans of CalArts) to do an evening of dance at the Pasadena Art Museum and for this performance she asked Charlemagne Palestine to try developing a new kind of work together. It immediately clicked. In January 1971 in Pasadena they did their first
Illuminations
. All of a sudden, they were doing a new kind of jamming together. Everybody in the audience loved it because it was so dreamy and they found amazing how a man and a woman can act in that strange, very dreamlike oriental way as in trance, together. Other artists were mostly doing very structural works while with
Illuminations
it was totally like they were on magic drugs. These performances had certain fixed elements... the piano or some electronics like in "Meditative Sound Environment", the title track of this LP. It turned out they liked red lights so they started to always do it in red light. Also, they liked to do it in a resonant spaces. It became more an approach than a piece, because there were never two "Illuminations" that were alike. The aspect of Charlemagne's music that most inspired Simone Forti's imagination was his melodies. Sometimes their texture of repetitions and evolving variations were so close that the term melody doesn't seem to apply. Liner notes by Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti. Edition of 365.
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