condition (records/cover): NM / EX- (minimal sticker removal residue on front)

Gatefold sleeve.

If the Acezantez LP documents Dubravko Detoni at his most collectively Dadaist, this one reveals the composer alone at the keyboard. Detoni Plays Detoni (1980) presents an overview of his piano music from the 1960s - a decade he spent building one of the most distinctive private languages in Yugoslav new music, trained across Zagreb, Siena, Warsaw, Darmstadt, and Paris, where he studied with John Cage.

The LP is a compressed history of his solo and hybrid practice. Phonomorphia 2 - described by Detoni himself as "piano music in the atomic age" - pairs live piano with electronic reverberations and recorded intrusions, the acoustic and electronic surfaces in dialogue and occasional collision. Sifre (Ciphers) is a series of etudes extending the piano's range through extended technique, the performer duetting with himself across conventional keyboard and the interior of the instrument. Orfejeva Pratnja (Orpheus' Accompaniment) is monolithic solo piano in the Darmstadt tradition, extensive silence deployed not as absence but as structural material. Koralna Predigra (Chorale Prelude), built on traces of Bach, is the most overtly lyrical piece here - an unexpected dreaminess against the surrounding austerity. Elucubrations closes the LP with orchestra as noise machine, the piano a single voice against an orchestral apparatus that does not accompany it so much as contend with it.

A rare, intimate document from one of Yugoslavia's most consequential and consistently overlooked composers. Original Jugoton pressing.