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From:
Guillaume Grenier
To:
idm
Date:
Mon, 21 May 2001 18:42:10 -0400
Subject:
Re: [idm] Francis Dhomont "Frankenstein Symphony"
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On 21/05/01 17:53, R. Lim said in living color:
quoted 8 lines On Mon, 21 May 2001, Guillaume Grenier wrote:> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Guillaume Grenier wrote: > >> All of his other releases (all on the aforementioned empreintes DIGITALes >> label) are essential. Even more than "Frankenstein Symphony" (though I must >> confess I haven't given that one a lot of listens). > > Yeah, I was going to ask about how the Asphodel CD stacked up- I've heard > it doesn't quite measure up.
I just gave it another listen... and it's an interesting CD, but admittedly not as strong as his "real" releases. You've got to be aware of the very different framework at the root of this release: a patchwork of pieces including only a couple of his own work. Also, no editing whatsoever was used on the samples -- from the liner notes: "Though I often allowed myself to play layering games, mixing works together [...], never did I use filtering, internal editing, transpositions or processing on the sounds." So, I think this CD should be approached as a sort of sampler with a twist.
quoted 6 lines The Mouvances-Metaphores CDs (reissued> The Mouvances-Metaphores CDs (reissued > individually on empreintes) are pretty classy indeed. I must admit that I > came to eD mainly through their co-branding of INA GRM stuff (who are the > present-day Warp Records of musique concrete), but some of their > non-affiliated material is well nigh comparable (such as the Christian > Calon CDEP).
I'm not really sure I understand what you mean here... Do you mean by "co-branding" their distribution of releases on the INA-GRM label? 'cause, to my knowledge, there were no releases conjointly put out by INA-GRM and empreintes DIGITALes. Consequently, I also don't understand what you mean by "non-affiliated material". Are you simply referring to the empreintes DIGITALes catalog (i.e., releases with an "IMED xxxx" number)? I also wonder what "the present-day Warp Records of musique concrete" implies... ;) Is that good or bad? Seems like an ambiguous allusion for this mailing list... g. -- Guillaume Grenier - gollum@videotron.ca in space there is no north in space there is no south in space there is no east in space there is no west --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org