Jean Dubuffet
Best known as a visual artist whose bold, childlike images are among the most striking and identifiable works of the mid-twentieth century, the French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was also one of the most fascinating outsider musicians of recent times. His musical output consists solely of a number of recordings made in 1960-61 with the Danish painter Asger Jorn, after which Dubuffet abandoned music in order to devote himself fully to visual art.
Musical Experiences
Temporary Super Offer! The legendary French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet exalted naivety and spontaneity in visual art, and his brazenly experimental recordings on Musical Experiences evince the same spirit through sound. He once reflected, "Ce…
Musique Phénoménale
First ever reissue of those legendary recordings from 1961! Edition of 600 copies, double CD in 6-panel digipak in slipcase, with 12-page illustrated booklet and linernotes by Asger Jorn in french & english.
"Musique Phénomenale" was recorded by Asge…
États-Unis Bundle II
**5LP Bundle with Tote Bag**Since its quiet beginnings back in 2011, the San Fransisco based imprint, Superior Viaduct, has come to hold a dominant place in the cultural landscape, stitching an intertwined narrative, crossing multiple genres, between…
Expériences Musicales 1961
Milestone reissue! Recorded in Venice in 1961 by the French sculptor, painter, and iconoclast Jean Dubuffet, these recordings were originally released in a hyper-limited 10" box set that is all but impossible to acquire. An early progenitor of the av…
Coucou Bazar
All the music for Jean Dubuffet's "animated painting" spectacle Coucou Bazar. Disc one is Ilhan Mimaroglu's 1973 electronic score for the Guggenheim staging (originally on Finnadar); disc two is Dubuffet's own 1978 Turin soundtrack, long buried in a …
Experiences Musicales (II)
2CD set & a 32-page illustrated booklet with texts by Jean Dubuffet and Ilhan Mimaroglu in English & French. Noisy, pure, crazy, exuberant, yet also focused and inventive. Dubuffet creates an impression of Nrenetically playful improvisation, yet each…
Experiences Musicales ou La Musique Chauve
Nine pieces from the 20 recorded in 1961 by Jean Dubuffet. Acoustic instruments, voice and tape. Dubuffet worked in various media in a style now referred to as Art Brut. In the early 60s he and the Danish painter Asger Jorn began to make improvised m…
Expériences musicales
32pp book in French, lavishly illustrated. Born in 1901 Jean Dubuffet studied painting, gave it up to become a wine merchant. Then in 1943 he became a full time artist, working in various media, including what we would now call installations, in a st…