| $22.12
back in stock as of
september 27th, 2008
first in stock on
september 25th, 2007
threads:
sound-poetry
live-electronic
electro-acoustic-composition
|
| | | tochnit aleph (germany) #ta 073 lp henri chopin “la plaine des respirs” long playing record - prologue les souffles (11:08)
- finale les répressions cassèes (20:02)
- la plaine des respirs vivace comme il se doit (28:40)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "la plaine des respirs ..." |
| finally back in stock !!!
september 2007 release; an extended (60 minutes !!!) vinyl-only set from legendary sound-poet henri chopin, released by daniel “raionbashi” löwenbruck on his tochnit aleph imprint to coincide with henri’s appearance at the “colour out of space” festival in brighton (wherein henri shared a stage with such luminaries/followers as jazzfinger, the vitamin b12, phil minton, jaap blonk, family underground, dead machines, john wiese, jazkamer, et.al...)
henri’s in fine form (i understand he’s... 85 this year [!!!]), hissing out of every cloaca in close range to his microphone/revox array, resulting in an intimate familiarity with the inner-working of his throat/sinus-cavity. all of the tape-warble/lower-octave gunk of henri’s alga marghen label output is present in droves...
very nice edition to boot; the lp housed in a black/white inner sleeve (replete with a portrait of henri, liners in german & english, credits) inside a black/white outer sleeve (ditto, in french) - highly recommended !!! |
| | tochnit aleph press release... |
| tochnit aleph 073
henri chopin - la plaine des respirs / 12"lp
available september 7th 2007 to coincident with henri chopin's performance at 'colour out of space' festival in brighton, uk.
latest works by legendary french sound-poetry pioneer henri chopin (born 1922), produced and recorded november 2003 - january 2004.
mastered and cut june 2006 by rashad becker / d&m.
edition of 500 copies in printed outer- and innersleeve, with text by henri chopin (original french, english & german translations), and photography by florence gonot-yterce.
"for the last forty years, with his sound poetry revue ou (1964-1974), then through his participation in various international sound poetry festivals, through his personal experience in the experimental studios of radio stations in köln, paris, australia, canada or sweden and in his concert/performances throughout europe, henri chopin has consistently and unceasingly opened the ways to unexplored spaces beyond all known languages. thanks to the systematic use of microphones, amplifiers, tape recorders, editing and mixing consoles, he has given a voice to realms beyond modern or experimental music, beyond any note system and headed for spaces without norms, categories, definitions or limits: spaces of permanent metamorphosis.
but despite misleading appearances, henri chopin is not merely doing a new kind of music; he is not just a consequence of pierre schaeffer’s concrete music principles and pierre henry’s experiments in the fifties. henri chopin is an individual (in stirner’s sense: the ego and its own) who has always resisted absurd attempts to reduce him to part of a movement, a school, an academism; what one perceives are henry chopin’s bio-psychical vibrations, that he himself constructed by electronically recording, then modifying, amplifying and transforming the energies of his own body.
this language is beyond institutionalised language or indeed beyond any language, it precedes all idioms (sound signs, playful energy signs like those of whales and dolphins), it is a breath language, a soul language (the language of anima), the unfettered respiration of the cosmic energies we are, who belong neither to factions nor clans. the energy of live beings, whose individuality is irreducible, and impossible to break down. solitary and strange cosmic creatures, mysterious yet showing solidarity, resonating with all those who dared breach shackles and rules, escape vile obedience, submission and compromise, reject complacency and blind allegiance to traditional or experimental academism.
with henri chopin let go and bid farewell to all that: here’s a plunge into the unknown, an exploration of the inside of voice, of the other side of voice, a sort of submarine navigation, of potholing into the unmapped tunnels and grottoes of the glottis, oesophagus, stomach and lungs, the places where pneuma (breath) is formed. henri chopin uses electronic devices to explore the pneumatic body relentlessly, but never gives way to the temptation of artificially fiddling with noises. he remains a-live, energetic vibration of the pulsating, cosmic soul." (erratum, france)
exclusively distributed in usa by mimaroglu music sales.
...
“one of the oral aspects of this vinyl is the negation of a religion,
from north to south, from east to west.
this aspect is because neither the lamb nor the bull pray,
they are one as the other as life is... for one it bleats, for the other it moos.
but did the gods want the lamb to be a pope, the bull to be a minotaur?
after billions of years, where natural liberty was at mercy of a bestial pavise,
it seems that that which tochnit aleph publishes puts the true decors and sources
of real life back into place.
also i propose to tochnit aleph a panorama of "breaths" or also a relief plain,
taken from the frogs of aristophanes, to annoy the kings and emperors,
including the "safe and sound" dictators!”
- henri chopin |
|
|
