Quelques Nouvelles du Front

Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites is a project of French composer Julien Ash, leader and only permanent member, helped by various artists. NLC combines Neo-Classical music with electronics for a unique example of modern chamber music. Piano is joined by violin, acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass plus ambient electronics and processed voices (singing and speaking).

After a trilogy under the seal of a pessimistic vision of our present time and of Humanity (Élégie du temps présent - Granny records, Sombres Mirroirs - Cronica and Insondables Humeurs - Granny records), Quelques instants d'éternité is the first part of a new trilogy, always imbued with a certain mysticism and a deep melancholy, but, this time, more luminous, carrying a hope still possible. Once again, the omnipresence of the organ nevertheless leaves a place, discreet but important, to some related sounds, whether electronic or natural.

The album was recorded in November 1973 in Lansdowne and Davout, released in December. It contains 13 new titles and very few potential hits, except for "Fais-moi de l'electricite", written by Joe's gang. There are also two good tunes written by Daniel Vangarde and Alice Dona.

Retrospective compilation offering tracks and excerpts from albums, unreleased and rare material.
Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites is a project of French composer Julien Ash, leader and only permanent member, helped by various artists. NLC combines Neo-Classical music with electronics for a unique example of modern chamber music. Piano is joined by violin, acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass plus ambient electronics and processed voices (singing and speaking).

Formé au Sweelinck Conservatorium d’Amsterdam, au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles et à la Sorbonne à Paris, passionné par la facture des instruments anciens, imprégné de culture classique française et fasciné par le Japon, le claveciniste Frédérick Haas s’interroge sur le sens à donner aujourd’hui aux musiques des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles en empruntant des chemins atypiques. Celui des croisements de cultures, des mises en regard, des expériences humaines et artistiques – "autant d’antidotes à certains stéréotypes véhiculés par l’approche dite “historiquement informée” d’aujourd’hui".

Pierre Schaeffer - Solfège de l'objet sonore (1967) {3CD Set, Ina-GRM ina c 2010/11/12 rel 2005}
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Classical / Electroacoustic / Electronic / Musique Concrète

It is a well-established fact that our approach to music is generally twofold: this is the physicists' as well as the musicians' doing. One the one hand, music is considered to be based on acoustics, or even mathematics, which ought to give it the status of a science; on the other hand , it is acknowledged that it proceeds from psychological and sociological phenomena which, over the ages, have developed into an art, itself depending on various crafts. There is no longer any contradiction between the two approaches so long as one is prepared to accept them jointly, with enough insight to respect the methods proper to each end of the "chain."