Ravi Shankar+Baschet Structures Sonores psych improv OST Transmigration Macabre

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Ravi Shankar: Transmigration Macabre [Viola OST] label & cat. no.:
Spark SPA 06 pressed in:
USA date:
1973 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (few minor unfeelable marks)
Cover: nm- (in shrink) description:
Excellent and mega-rare original lp of Shankar-led free improv, featuring the legendary Lasry-Baschet Structures Sonores, sound sculptures made of metal and glass. The Structures are heard in most if not all tracks, often up front as the main articulator of the melody, and sometimes in the background mixed with Indian percussion and exploited more for their noisy and percussive effects. Overall the blend of Shankar's group's intense jamming with the unusual clangs and crashes of the Structures is brilliant; this is probably the closest to a free jazz setting that the Baschet instruments have ever come. The players are Shankar, Alla Rakha, and Kamala Chakravarti; sitar and tabla can be heard along with plenty of heavy percussive sounds from the sculptures. These pieces were recorded for the soundtrack of 1967 British experimental film Viola directed by Richard Davis and Dunstan Pereira. Highly recommended.

artist info from album notes etc.:
The Baschet Structures Sonores have been used in composition and performance by Andres Lewin-Richter, Ravi Shankar, Toru Takemitsu, Michel Deneuve, Sigfried Fink, Jacques Doyen, Sarah Gorby, Michael Ranta, Stomu Yamash'ta, Jean Cocteau, Edgard Varese, John Cage, David Tudor, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Schaeffer and Jean Schwartz of the INA-GRM, and Jacques, Yvonne, and Teddy Lasry of Magma; they compare to the sculpture, sound installation, and homemade instrument work of Paul Panhuysen, Bill Fontana, Harry Bertoia, Sonambient, Max Neuhaus, Harry Partch, Z'ev, Donald Knaack, Alvin Lucier, Mario Bertoncini, Bruce Nauman, Skip LaPlante, Jean Tinguely, Michael Brewster, Hugh Davies, Terry Fox, and Robert Rutman, and their recordings are listed in the Broken Music catalog. Check out my other items for more early electronic/synth/electroacoustic, avant garde/experimental/noise, sound art, audiophile, and 20th century classical vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail with tracking is $5.00 for up to 2 12" records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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