A spellbinding five-CD box set documenting the entire enigmatic production of one of the missing links in experimental electronic and prototypical industrial music: Anne Gillis. From her groundbreaking 1983 Devil's Picnic release through her 2005 installations and exhibitions, this comprehensive collection unveils the hidden world of a visionary French composer whose work anticipated much of what would follow in electroacoustic composition and sound art.

Since the early 1980s, Manon Anne Gillis has been creating music using primitive systems, pursuing the smallest of impulses to their logical end-points. Her work exists in a space simultaneously quotidian and theatrical, transforming spoken word, breathing, and singing into blurred noise and irregular repetitions, plunging them into rhythm tracks to create new inner worlds. As she has remarked, her sound is not something conceptual – feeling and immersion matter far more to her than understanding.

This is the first archival release to cover Gillis' work in its entirety. The box includes all of her albums on the (CRI)2, DMA2, and Rangehen labels, her only collaborative single with G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, most of her compilation tracks (minus a few where the original master tapes have gone missing), and 11 previously unreleased tracks – a treasure trove for collectors and scholars of experimental music.

Gillis approaches sound as a tactile, sensory experience. Her compositions weave together voice, breathing, words, and sounds using ingenious methodologies that blur the boundaries between music, performance, and sound installation. This is dense and detailed work, ripe with ancient dreams, bodily functions, darkness, secrets, and beautiful seclusion, resulting in an intricate and introverted moiré of modular synth pulses woven with cut-up techniques and voice manipulation. Her sound world is both intimate and alien – employing rudimentary technology to create works of astonishing complexity and emotional depth. Where many of her contemporaries in industrial and experimental electronic music pursued confrontation and volume, Gillis crafted interiors: spaces for contemplation, disquiet, and strange beauty.

For too long, Anne Gillis has remained one of experimental music's best-kept secrets. While her influence can be traced through decades of subsequent electroacoustic and sound art practice, her own work has been largely unavailable. This 10th Anniversary edition rectifies that absence, offering both longtime admirers and new listeners the opportunity to experience the full scope of her artistic vision.

This collection reveals an artist of singular vision, working at the intersection of musique concrète, industrial music, and performance art. Her work anticipates contemporary practices in ASMR, sound poetry, and experimental vocal technique, yet remains utterly unique – unmistakably the product of a brilliant and uncompromising imagination.

Essential listening for fans of Nurse With Wound, early SPK, Pauline Oliveros, AMM, Éliane Radigue, The Haters, Organum, and anyone interested in the hidden histories of experimental electronic music.