JIM FASSETT:50'S MUSIQUE CONCRETE LP EXPERIMENTAL-PSYCH
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JIM FASSETT
Symphony of the Birds LP
- Original 1st pressing
- Label :Columbia Masterworks / Usa
- Condition :vg- /vg (cover/vinyl)
Have a look at my other auctions for Fassett's "Strange to your ears". Excellent and rare 50's lp exploring the weird and wacky side of early electronic tape manipulations/musique concrete, presenting an array of sped-up, slowed-down, reversed, cut-up, and montaged found sounds. Wild stuff -- and one of the oddest records we've ever heard! The work is truly a Symphony Of Birds -- in that all the source material here was recorded in the field, out of the mouths of actual birds -- but the overall execution is far different than just a bunch of birdcalls, and thanks to careful studio manipulation, Jim Fassett makes the whole thing sound like a record of analogue electronics! From what we can tell, the album involves Fassett manipulating and re-assembling his bird call recordings in ways that form a whole new kind of music -- one that has some bird-like elements, but which sounds hauntingly electronic at most moments -- and which comes across in a beautiful array of chirps and cheeps. The package features some notes in Japanese, others in English, lots of photos -- and even a massive "disc guide", listing dozens of related albums of field recordings, bird calls, and even whistling! Titles include some initial "Explanatory Comments" by Fassett, plus different movements of the suite. The second half features more birdcall recordings, narrated by Fassett -- but presented in a more straightforward way. It is highly recommended as a fascinating period document, as a trove of sound effects, and as a beautiful specimen of outsider musique concrete.
Fassett was the director of CBS Radio, a radio show host, music critic, audiophile, and early magnetic tape experimentalist who in the 1950s released several novelty musique concrete recordings. Other references: Jean-Jacques Perrey, Bruce Haack, Raymond Scott, Tod Dockstader, Francois Bayle, Luc Ferrari...(kind courtesy of keymap)
Vinyl in vg condition, quite decent if you consider the fact that it's a +50 year LP, while cover is vg- with tape on top and bottom!! Impossible to find!! Might appeal to fans of Pierre Henry, musique concrete, Broken Music, Pierre Schaeffer, Detoni, Ragnar Grippe, Arne Nordheim, Andre Almuro, Alvin Lucier, Alvin Curran, Eimert, Riedl, Parmegiani, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Richard Maxfield, Hermann Nitsch, Henri Chopin, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Yoshi Wada, Tod Dockstader, Luc Ferrari, Lejeune, Christian Clozier, Logothetis, Jani Christou,Toniutti, Nurse with wound, Asmus Tietchens, Zoviet France, Hafler Trio, John Duncan, Leif Ellgrenn, Hausswolff, Merzbow, Organum, AMM, Harry Bertoia, Sound Sculpture, Z'ev, Lasry-Baschet, Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Bill Fontana, Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, Text sound compositions, harry Partch, John Cage, David Tudor and similar!
Shipping: Combined shipping=BIG discounts. Shiping for 1st LP is 5 gbp airmail in Europe / 7 gbp for the rest of the world! Each additional LP add 1 gbp up to 6 LPs for Europe(2 kgs). Each additional LP for the rest of the world, please add 1 gbp for first 2 additional, 2 gbp for the 4th LP and then 1 gbp for each additional LP. For registered rates, please ask.
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