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PRICE:
$26.50
$26.50
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ARTIST
LEJEUNE, JACQUES
TITLE
Early Works 1969-1970
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ROBOT
CATALOG #
ROBOT 043LP
ROBOT 043LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/27/2015
Limited restock. This LP of early compositions by
Jacques Lejeune
features three seminal works:
D'une Multitude En Fête
and
Petite Suite
, originally released in the Perspective Musicales series in 1970, and a previously unpublished composition,
Géodes
, from the same period. These three pieces (not included in Robot's 2013
Parages and Other Electroacoustic Works 1971-1985
three-CD set (ROBOT 042CD)) are some of Lejeune's earliest music for tape and may be considered a "prequel" to his later, more thematic works. Still, his concise musical narrative is ever-present in these first recordings. The side-long
D'une Multitude En Fête
(1969) refers to multitude, number, celebration, and any crowd situation as a form of ceremony -- all evoking a circular gaze, as topics of the different aural events and their anecdotal development emerge, leading to the dream, as a story we tell to ourselves.
Géodes
(1970) features percussion improvisations by
Lauréat Dionne
with Lejeune's tape work inflecting prisms deep into its thundering, rhythmic core. This concert version appears on vinyl for the first time. Concluding the album is
Petite Suite
(1970), with each section referencing a traditional musical form using both anecdotal as well as instrumental flourishes. The original drum and guitar elements are performed here by
Michel Foudrinoy
and
Jean-Pierre Vassout
. These pieces have been compared to
Pierre Henry
's bold rock themes in
Messe Pour Le Temps Présent
and also recall the peculiar atmospheres of some of the great early
Nurse with Wound
records that would follow. In contrast, Lejeune's early approach was heavily steeped in sonic narratives, combining unusual and ambiguous events to create a sound world uniquely his own.
Early Works 1969-1970
explores the first precision splices by one of the true visionaries of musique concrète.
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