REMI GASSMANN OSCAR SALA ELECTRONICS Musique Concrete 1962 1st OG Japan Press NM

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REMI GASSMAN & OSCAR SALA* “Electronics”

LABEL: WESTMINSTER/ KING RECORDS JAPAN

Label Number: SWY-3

TRUE 1st Original 1962 Japanese pressing housed in flip back fragile jacket. Never tunrs up audiophile 1962 pressing in TOP condition.

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint - one hairline on side A

Fragile Flip Back Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint - minimal spine wear due to age

Some words on this issue: GASSMANN, REMI & OSKAR SALA: “Electronics” (Westminster – SWY-3) Totally underrated or overlooked vintage electronic music LP. Japan only issue with totally different jacket. German Oskar Sala and American expat Remi Gassmann met as students of the renowned German composer Paul Hindemith, and they both turned out to be pioneers of electronic music. Sala worked closely with Frederick Trautwein on the latter's invention, the Trautonium, an early (late 1920s) electronic instrument that can be seen as a precursor of the first modular synthesizers. Sala helped develop and modify the instrument over the years, composing and performing numerous pieces for it. Outside of electronic music circles, Sala and Gassman are best known for creating the electronic score for Hitchcock's film The Birds. This album has one side dedicated to each composer, both working on the version of the Trautonium that had by that point (1961) developed into a full-blown electronic music studio. Gassmann's piece Electronics was the music for a contemporaneous ballet by George Balanchine, and Sala's side consists of Five Improvisations on Magnetic Tape. Both are solidly in the old-school electronic music tradition, strictly non-melodic and based around explorations of variation in timbre. Gassmann's piece is more minimalistic, with angular bursts of pointillistic sounds, and a great variance in dynamics. Sala's is, as its title implies, much more spontaneous and freewheeling, making excellent use of effects that process the sounds to create a greater feeling of physical space. Both illustrate the enormous possibilities that were available to electronic composers even before the advent of synthesizers.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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