Label: Creel Pone CP 000.10 CD

多くの説明は不要、オリジナルは仏Philipsの有名な銀ジャケシリーズの一つとして1970年に出版された4LPボックスセット[Electronic Panorama]！！"Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa"との副題通り、Luc Ferrari、Bernard Parmegiani、Pierre Schaeffer、Pierre Henry、Gottfried Michael Koenig、黛敏郎、諸井誠、Krzysztof Penderecki、Arne Nordheim等々、錚々たるメンバーが集結したマニア垂涎の濃密な人選。オリジナルに付属したブックレットのミニチュア版が付属。マスト。









This was the tenth & easily the most desirable of the first wave of ca. 2004 "Proto Creel Pone" titles, cleanly replicating all four LPs of the "Deluxe" French variant of the epoch-defining 1970 "Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa" boxed set, right on down to the foil-stamped fold-out "Brochure" detailing the covers & titles of the rest of the series up until that point (reproduced wonderfully & legibly here on its own "Half-Panel;" if you've ever tried to scan a mirror you'll understand just what an undertaking it was to recreate this effect).

This & the eight individual LP-side labels are cleanly presented across a gorgeous 6-panel Metallic "Pearlized" booklet, with a (hand-cut & stapled; never again) 20-page insert recreating both the French & Dutch (if you squint & look just right you'll see the "Black" panels are actually twice-printed with both the "Full-Bleed Red" AND "Black" designs unique to each territory) with the music presented in full across three "Shiny-Top, Black-Bottom" discs (again, to attempt to recreate the raw splendour of this record-artifact as object-of-desire).

Short of including the versions/edits on the "Electronic 2000" LP (which, despite the rumours going around the mill, are identical to the versions on the box & are not included, although I spotted the tracklisting "Hanging" off the face-art on the third disc as something of a red-herring) I can't see how anyone looking for this oft-unobtainable "King James Bible" of Electro-Acoustic music will be in any kind of sour state around this exacting replica.