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| | | hors territoires (france) #ht 05-6 cd jean-claude eloy “shânti (paix/peace) • première publication intégrale” double compact disc set - les foules de la mémoire (26:48)
- son de méditation (5:05)
- prémonitions (20:24)
- flash-back (7:29)
- interview (aurobindo / mao) (8:33)
- mantra des étoiles (32:26)
- soldats (2:21)
- vagues lentes, boules de feux (6:07)
- contemplation aux enfants (14:42)
- vastitude (17:44)
| august 2010 release ; legit, “private edition” of this canonic piece of long-form electronic music, composed at wdr in 1972 & issued here in its “première publication intégrale” (first complete publication) ...
re: the music (in reference to the original, erato-label edition, replicated by creel pone back in 2006) ::
| what we have here ; a massive, four side-long drone-epic from jean-claude eloy, as composed in the wdr in köln from 1972 to 1973 ... while this piece is widely dissed as a stockhausen “rip-off” (eloy’s use of pan-cultural textures and spoken fragments is purely textural, not any sort of commentary on nationalism as, purportedly, “hymnen” is...) i’ve always found it completely successful in its ability to transport the listener to a distant, frozen-crystal wasteland ... another one of my all-time favorite long-form pieces ; a more perfect soundtrack for that lost afternoon i’d be hard-pressed to spell-out ... |
... working from eloy’s own production-tapes, this version was re-mastered in 2001 & sounds absolutely magnificent ; the kind(s) of grinding, static-feeling tonal forms that form the piece’s base (listen to the beginning, then the end of the extended sound-sample) are on par with similar, albeit later work by eliane radigue & the like, but even richer & absolutely rippling with all sorts of meta-electronic activity ...
this definitive edition comes as a 6-panel fold-out digipack, with two discs & a 16-page booklet of notes & ephemera (in both french & english) ; highly recommended !!! |
| | hors territoires press release... |
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"shânti (1972-73)" 2 cd
ht 05-6
"shânti" (1972-73) for electronic and concrete sounds. electronic music studio, wdr, cologne, germany, 1972-73. digitalized and revised version from 2001.
the term "meditation music" triggered many conflicting comments including positive ones ("... let us say that shânti belongs to those very rare works that change you after listening to them. you are not exactly the same before and after." gérard mannoni, le quotidien de paris, 1974). others, wondering at the strong sound presence of the piece, consider such aspect as hardly helpful to their own meditation ... let us be clear: "what meditates</i>" here ("that" who meditates) is the composer. he is the one who takes you on his journey and guides you through his work like in a classic or romantic symphony. as a listener you are invited to follow "his" meditation ... the composition is the meditation.
jean-claude eloy is a french composer, born in 1938. he studied at the paris national superior conservatory of music, where he won first prizes in piano, chamber music, counterpoint, ondes martenot, and studied composition with darius milhaud. he attended summer courses at darmstadt (pousseur, scherchen, messiaen, boulez, stockhausen) and was a student in composition in pierre boulez' master class at the music academy in basel (1961-1963).
works by jean-claude eloy have been performed all over the world. they have been conducted by pierre boulez, ernest bour, michael guilen, bruno maderna, diego masson, michel tabachnik, arthur weisberg and others ... he has lived in the united states (professor at the university of california, berkeley, in the sixties), germany (invited by the wdr studios in cologne, the technische universität in berlin, guest artist at the berliner künstlerprogramm), holland, japan (where he collaborated with nhk and the national theater of japan, among other activities).
he participates regularly in numerous international festivals, principally in europe, but also in asia, the united states, canada and latin america as sound-projectionist for his electro-acoustic works and with the soloists closely associated with his compositions : fatima miranda (vocalist), yumi nara (soprano), michael ranta (percussionist), junko ueda (shômyô singer and satsuma-biwa player), kôshin ebihara and kôjun arai (buddhist monk singers), mayumi miyata (shô player), etc. |
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