VINCENT GEMINIANI - MUSIQUE POUR UN VOYAGE EXTRAORDINAIRE
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VINCENT GEMINIANI - MUSIQUE POUR UN VOYAGE EXTRAORDINAIRE
My first memory of this LP was at Spitalfield’s record market back in about 1997. I was selling at a second hand stall with Fraser Moss and a couple of other geeky collectors. He had this LP for sale - he’d bought it in Paris - and I remember being mesmerized by the weird sleeve; there was no artist name or album name on the front, just a big number and a strange collage too. I couldn’t afford it at the time and I think Fraser ended up swapping it for something just as peculiar or electronic with another dealer.
At the time the whole library music collecting scene was very much in its infancy, we knew a bit not that much, and even less about these more obscure French releases. But we all knew when something sounded perfect, like this.
Even now not that much is really known about Vincent Geminiani, but his father was a sculptor and his mother was a musician and he was born in Paris in 1939. It seemed to make perfect sense that he went on to compose his own music and make his own sculptural instruments to play it all on. One such instrument was the Bronté, a sound sculpture played with hammers or a bow, which became an integral part of his sound and his touring musical troupe, The Ensemble De Percussions De Paris.
The Bronté is all over this too, his second LP, originally issued in 1972 as both a commercial release - Modern Pop Percussions (L’Oiseau Sans Pied) on Concert Hall (SPS 1333), and as non commercial library album - Musique Pour Un Voyage Extraordinaire for Roger Vigier’s Musique Pour L’Image label (MPI/LP 535), which is what we have reproduced here.
It is, without doubt, one of the top ten library LPs ever made. Well I think so. It certainly stands pretty much alone in the French library music scene and also in the MPI catalogue as a complete and perfect concept LP, a truly cohesive trip into the underworld and outerworld via percussion, voices, joy and enthralling sound. Simple outstanding, oddly emotional, dynamic, groovy, jazzy, it has it all.
It has always been a very hard LP to find, and it has never been reproduced in its classic and, dare I say, iconic collage library sleeve. 500 copies only. NO REPRESS.
At the time the whole library music collecting scene was very much in its infancy, we knew a bit not that much, and even less about these more obscure French releases. But we all knew when something sounded perfect, like this.
Even now not that much is really known about Vincent Geminiani, but his father was a sculptor and his mother was a musician and he was born in Paris in 1939. It seemed to make perfect sense that he went on to compose his own music and make his own sculptural instruments to play it all on. One such instrument was the Bronté, a sound sculpture played with hammers or a bow, which became an integral part of his sound and his touring musical troupe, The Ensemble De Percussions De Paris.
The Bronté is all over this too, his second LP, originally issued in 1972 as both a commercial release - Modern Pop Percussions (L’Oiseau Sans Pied) on Concert Hall (SPS 1333), and as non commercial library album - Musique Pour Un Voyage Extraordinaire for Roger Vigier’s Musique Pour L’Image label (MPI/LP 535), which is what we have reproduced here.
It is, without doubt, one of the top ten library LPs ever made. Well I think so. It certainly stands pretty much alone in the French library music scene and also in the MPI catalogue as a complete and perfect concept LP, a truly cohesive trip into the underworld and outerworld via percussion, voices, joy and enthralling sound. Simple outstanding, oddly emotional, dynamic, groovy, jazzy, it has it all.
It has always been a very hard LP to find, and it has never been reproduced in its classic and, dare I say, iconic collage library sleeve. 500 copies only. NO REPRESS.