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" contains three classic musique concrète compositions from Michel Chion. All were produced at the GRM in Paris (the acousmatic headquarters of the world). The itself is an electronic take on the traditional form. is a ‘technical study’ which takes an original waltz theme and fragments it. is considered a ‘monodrama’ — that is, a drama centering around one ‘character.’ In this case what we hear are the detached reactions of this ‘character’ to a nightmare. It’s French, it’s acousmatic… what more could you ask for?"

À l'heure où paraissent ces " cahiers ", trois mois sont passés depuis que la pandémie mondiale du Covid-19 s'est imposée à nous, trois mois que le monde entier a basculé dans un état de crise dont on ne voit pas l'issue et dont on ne mesure pas les effets sur les sociétés qu'il a frappées. …

Waltz Club album by Didier Lockwood was released Mar 27, 2006 on the Universal Distribution label. Waltz Club CD music contains a single disc with 16 songs. The accordion and violin are the favorite instruments of jazz in French. Stephane Grappelli and Marcel Azzola are two of the pioneers of this tradition. I paid tribute to Stephane Grappelli in my "Tribute to Stephane Grappelli" and I could not forget the "Great" Marcel Azzola with beaded and poetic phrasing…

After three decades of Carmen in opéra comique-style, each one offering its own brand of authenticity, here we are back in the 19th century with the old grand opera version, with the Guiraud recitatives, tacked on after Bizet’s death. This was the way Carmen was usually performed until the 1950s, when producers and scholars started to reconsider the original.