Label: Alga Marghen – Plana-D 19vocson070
Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Box Set
Country: Italy
Released: 2007
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Spoken Word, Experimental
Monumental 4LP anthology from French sound poet and Nouveau visual artist François Dufrêne – one of the most extensive and impressive sound poetry collections to date.
We’ve played through this box at least once a week for the past few months and every rotation draws us deeper into its world. Backstory – Dufrêne was was one of the earliest sound poets. Already in the Lettrist group at aged 16, later the ultra-Lettrist moment where he developed his own Crirhythm style which began incorporating vocal concrete music and the artistic possibilities of nonsense, noise, yelps, etc as a means of expression. Most notably, in the mid-50s Dufrêne is the first artist reported to have performed with a tape recorder.
It’s often brutal, overpowering but laced with humour. Heavily daubed classical music, smeared in heavy breathing and feverish vocal mutations. There’s a juxtaposition between the highbrow, often impenetrable, ivory tower world of classical music and Dufrêne’s unsettling non-verbal poetry. The lack of respect and razing of institution in a genuinely avant-garde way. Elsewhere, jazz percussion is defaced, or tape-music pieces are performed without musical accompaniment allowing their jarring qualities to penetrate deeper. Such works laid the foundation or later sound poets (Henri Chopin / Bernard Heidsieck), but we feel the same influence within the likes of Graham Lambkin’s work, Pierre Henry for INA-GRM, Hans Krüsi or Aaron Dilloway and much of the contemporary noise stuff. Intrepid listening. For some reason, we also have the box available on CD (NM/NM).
Tracklist
A Crirythme Pour Un Double Anniversaire Dedicated To Ginetta And Anouj 18:26
Osmose-Art
B1 Köchel Que J’Aime 9:37
B2 Le Cheval Lié À L’Art Rose 12:31
C1 Est-Ouest 8:19
C2 Tête À Terre Et Ventre Au Ciel 9:27
C3 Eryximaque, Suite Chorégraoni – Que Au Tombeau De Pierre Larousse 7:18
D1 Les Joyeux Sisyphe 7:40
D2 Sature, Nain! (Crirythme) 7:05
D3 Cacochyme (Crirythme) 2:12
D4 Sature, Nain! (Crirythme) 7:04
Lecture-Collage 1
E La Ressource Du Petit Peuple & Tenilom By Jean Molinet 18:57
Lecture-Collage 2
F1 Dit Du Vieux Marin By Coleridge 10:20
F2 Belles Nuisances, Hantez Nos Nuits 10:48
G1 Séquences (Crirythme) 20:26
G2 Comptinuum (Extraits I) 2:07
H1 La Guitare En Long 8:57
H2 PostcriRYTHptum 2:12
H3 Comptinuum (Extraits II) 10:57
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