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Michel Magne

Musique Tachiste (LP)

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Temporary Super Offer! The debut issue from Finders Keepers' hugely promising new Cacophonic sub-label is the first in a series of rare records by French experimentalist Michel Magne: six pieces of extended vocal technique, musique concrète, and jazzier modes very much in keeping with Finders Keepers' quirkier tastes. A faithful reissue including facsimile of the original artwork and 12-page booklet of liner notes. "One of the very earliest full-length French concept albums - part radical manifesto, part pantomime. This anti-intellectual "physical" reaction to the bourgeoning musique concrete movement combines found sounds and industrial noise with piano jazz alongside imposing avant-garde orchestral elements alongside Magne's own hammered cimbalom flourishes.

This unique debut LP also provides an early insight into a fruitful soundtrack/conceptual jazz career collaborating with Jean-Claude Vannier, Martal Solal and Artie Kaplan as well as founding the French Strawberry Studio at Château d' Hérouville where French groups like Magma, Catherine Ribeiro, Brigitte Fontaine and Ange shared a diary with Terry Riley and Pink Floyd. As a dedicated producer of thematic composition, anti-intellectual experimental performance and modern jazz, Magne was also a wellrespected pioneer of France’s signature film score sound of the late 60s. Part radical manifesto, part pantomime, his self initiated debut Musique Tashiste was conceived, in part, as a physical humorous reaction to the bourgeoning musique concrète movement by combining found sounds and industrial elements with piano jazz alongside imposing avant-garde orchestral elements.

Marking a stylistic cross roads where the likes of Egisto Macchi, Harry Partch, Rolf Liebermann, Igor Wakhevitch, overlap work of future collaborators and understudies like Jean-Claude Vannier and Martial Solal this LP is an essential forefather of European conceptual pop made at the start of a career that later furnished France with one of its most important residential studios (Chateau d'Herouville) and a discography of challenging LPs before his untimely suicide in the early 1980s."

Details
Cat. number: 1CACKLP
Year: 2014

Format

Reissue with track A5 not included on original release.

Includes a 10 pages booklet in which each track is commented and illustrated with a drawing by [a2474417].

Release notes

Reissue with track A5 not included on original release. Includes a 10 pages booklet in which each track is commented and illustrated with a drawing by [a2474417].

Tracklist
A1Mémoire D'un Trou2:42
A2Self Service1:33
A3Carillon Dans L'eau Bouillante2:25
A4Méta-Mécanique Saccadée2:05
A5Pointed De Feu Amorties Au Dolosal3:34
A6Larmes En Saule Pleureur (Extrait D'un Chagrin Emmitouflé]2:40
Concertino Triple
B11er Mouvement6:41
B22e Mouvement5:00
B33e Mouvement4:00
Credits
Sempé
Artwork [Drawings]
Gérard Delassus
Cimbalom (A1, A4)
Michel Magne
Composed By, Conductor [Choir, Orchestra], Tape
Jacques Lubin
Engineer
Janine De Waleine
Ondes Martenot (A1, A6)
Paul Castagnier
Piano (A6, B1 to B3)
Géo Daly
Vibraphone (B1 to B3)
Lionel Gali
Violin (A6)
Christiane Legrand
Voice [Voix Chantée] (A5)
Jacqueline Dano
Voice [Voix D'expression] (A4)