Esprit 2015

François Bayle - 50 ans d'acousmatique (2012) {15CD Set INA GRM Official Digital Download rel 2015}
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© 2015 INA GRM | INA G 6033/6047
Classical / Musique Concrète / Avant-Garde Music / Experimental Electronic

Monumental! Lavishly conceived, superlative 15-CD Boxset with 160-page (French, English) booklet, a dream come true!!!! François Bayle's itinerary spans over five decades through which music was able to renovate its material through a sensible use of technology. The terms of Musique Concrète, Electroacoustics or Acousmatics, as conveniently proposed by François Bayle, ultimately explore a similar artistic approach: a creative and expressive work on recorded sound. This last half-century saw many major technical mutations and François Bayle - in the fertile context of the Grm seized the right opportunities, often initiating them through his function as director, so as to renovate and update creativity to serve what he called the Light Speed Sound.

Reissue of the band's sole album, recorded in 1977. This a jazz-rock album with few zeuhl elements, references are more likely to be found into Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. High energy involved, good vibes, passionate playing and fabulous bass lines of Alain Lecointe. Led by composer Jacques Liot, the album features a stellar crew of musicians : Alain Lecointe on bass (Serge Bringolf's Strave, Alain Eckert, Hamsa Music), Richard Raux (Magma 1st incarnation), Lionel Ledissez (Ergo Sum) etc. Nadavati belongs to the few 70s French bands that went that way : Spheroe, Chute Libre, Transit Express, CCCP. Also comparable to the recent album of Planeto Imaginario - both exploring instrumental landscapes between jazz-rock & progressive.

The release of the Gary Peacock Trio's Now This celebrates Peacock's 80th birthday. Accompanied by pianist Marc Copland and drummer Joey Baron, the bassist explores compositions both familiar and new. His collaborators also contribute a tune each. "Gaia" first appeared on 1995's A Closer View with Ralph Towner. In the intro to this version, Copland uses his instrument's high register to commence a call and response with Peacock; Baron's use of muted cymbals adds a gauzy texture before the waltz tempo and the lyric commence, adding a new dimension.

Les progrès en neurosciences ont permis de mieux étudier les relations corps-esprit, longtemps considérées comme ésotériques. Et nous savons aujourd'hui que nous pouvons apprendre à remodeler notre cerveau de manière à réduire la sensation de douleur, réguler nos émotions, reconnecter nos neurones…

Les progrès en neurosciences ont permis de mieux étudier les relations corps-esprit, longtemps considérées comme ésotériques. Et nous savons aujourd'hui que nous pouvons apprendre à remodeler notre cerveau de manière à réduire la sensation de douleur, réguler nos émotions, reconnecter nos neurones…

Exploring 20th-century repertoire – both acknowledged masterpieces and new discoveries – this 14-CD anthology reflects the diverse aesthetic strands of Pierre Boulez’s programming over the course of his ground-breaking and influential career. These Erato recordings, made between 1966 and 1992, feature composers otherwise absent from Boulez’s discography – Xenakis, Donatoni, Grisey, Dufourt, Ferneyhough, Harvey and Höller – and the first CD release of the interpretation of Stravinsky’s incantatory Les Soucoupes in the version for female voices and four horns.

2016 marks the 40th anniversary of Jean Martinon’s death. This 14-CD collection focuses on Martinon’s activity with the Orchestre National de l’O.R.T.F between 1968 and 1975 and on repertoire – much of it French – that complements the works by Debussy and Ravel that feature on Martinon’s best-known recordings. The box brings together recordings he made for both EMI and Erato and also includes the first commercial releases of live recordings kept at France’s Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) and dating from 1970 (Roussel’s Symphony No 3), 1971 (Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin) and 1972 (Falla’s complete Three-Cornered Hat).