Pierre Henry:.Liverpool electronic/musique concrete '67

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Pierre Henry: Messe De Liverpool (1967 for tape). Philips 6510 001

Rare 1970 Canadian gatefold lp (never issued in the US) with an amazing electronic work featuring tape-manipulated instrument sounds (mostly strings and guitars) and wild experimental vocal utterances. This musique concrete piece was influenced by Buddhist chants but structured as a Catholic Mass; it was commissioned for the opening of the Cathedrale Metropolitaine du Christ-Roi de Liverpool, which, coincidentally, is literally made out of concrete. Henry collaborated with Jacques Spacagna to obtain some of the vocal effects. With notes in French by Maurice Fleuret.

Henry studied under Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen, and together with Pierre Schaeffer founded the world's first tape music studio; the INA-GRM became a center of study for electroacoustic pioneers like Francois Bayle, Michel Chion, Luc Ferrari, Francois Bernard Mache, Ivo Malec, Bernard Parmegiani, Michel Redolfi, Jean-Claude Risset, Ragnar Grippe, Jon Appleton, Jean Michel Jarre, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, and Iannis Xenakis. Henry's groundbreaking work would influence contemporaries like John Cage, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Tod Dockstader, Jon Appleton, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Tom Dissevelt, and Jean-Jacques Perrey. He has worked with Spooky Tooth, Coldcut, DJ Vadim, William Orbit, Fatboy Slim and Funki Porcini. This work is part of the experimental vocal tradition of Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas, Charles Amirkhanian, text sound, Henri Chopin, Cathy Berberian, Laurie Anderson, Clark Coolidge, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Dieter Schnebel, Clytus Gottwald, Mauricio Kagel, Joseph Beuys, George Maciunas...

Vinyl Condition: ex+
Cover Condition: ex+ (holepunch; top seam has a small tear)

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