JIM FASSETT 50'S MUSIQUE CONCRETE LP EXPERIMENTAL PSYCH

	£		25
	$		33

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JIM FASSETT 1950'S SYMPHONY OF THE BIRDS LP

Excellent and rare 50's lp exploring early electronic tape manipulations/musique concrete, presenting an array of sped-up, slowed-down, reversed, cut-up, and montaged found sounds, based on bird song.

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.

Released on Ficker, cat. no. C1002.


Condition: vinyl has some marks/some surface marks, generally good to very good. Sleeve has a split in the top and at the side, a small sellotape mend along the top and two along the side, some wear/marks but generally in presentably good condition.

This is from my own collection and has been looked after with great care since bought in the above condition. It has been stored in a protective see-through sleeve, which I will include. I will ship in a strengthened sleeve.


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Some info on the release:

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. Alongside the work of his more serious academic contemporaries in the early electronic tape music scene like Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, and Karlheinz StockhausenWild 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 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 (kind courtesy of keymap).


Starting on the 17th of June at 8.30pm GMT, I'm also listing Jim Fassett's Hear The Animals Sing LP. See my "other items".

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