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Pierre Henry

Le Voyage (D'Après Le Livre Des Morts Tibétain) (LP)

Label: Philips

Series: Prospective 21e Siècle

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

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1968/9 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of 1963 feedback masterpiece based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM - Silver foil front and back sleeve. Green labels. Le Voyage (D'Après Le Livre Des Morts Tibétain) confronts the Bardo Thodol, that text accompanying the soul through intermediate states between death and rebirth. Pierre Henry constructs an electroacoustic journey lasting an entire LP side, initiatory voyage compressed into roughly forty minutes.

Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert had already used the Tibetan Book of the Dead as map for the psychedelic experience. Henry sought no chemical shortcuts but something analogous through acoustic means: sounds that would alter consciousness, that would lead the listener through normally inaccessible territories. The ambition was enormous, the outcome controversial, the attempt undeniable. Philips gambled on transcendence; whether the bet pays off depends on who's listening.




Details
Cat. number: 836.899 DSY
Year: 1969
Notes:
D'après le Livre des Morts Tibétain [From the Tibetan Book of the Dead] Création à Paris le 25 juin 1963 en l'église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre [Created in Paris on June 25, 1963 in the Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre church] "Made and Printed in France" [on sleeve] Made in France [on labels] imp. C. I. D. I. S. Louviers Recto : Procédé Héliophore [Front: Heliophore process] Catalogue number variations are: 836.899 DSY on record labels/back sleeve, 836 899 on cover spine.

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