Label: Creel Pone

フランスにてソウル、ジャズ、ファンクのクラリネット奏者として活動し、ライブラリー音楽の作曲家、またオーケストラのリーダーも務めたりした偉人Camille Sauvage。氏が残した録音作品の中でも異端なライブラリー録音として知られる3枚のLP作品を中心に纏め上げたCreel Pone編集版。1974年[Fantasmagories]、1975年[Delirium Tremens]、1976年[7 Drums Concerto]、そしてCelebrity Symphony Orchestra名義の1961年[Musique Concrete And Electronique]が収録された充実の内容であり、オンド・マルトノとアンサンブルの小作品やら不穏な電子音楽インプロヴィゼーションまでと実に多彩。美しい６パネルパッケージ。





long in the works (apologies Larry!) double-disc set covering three impeccable Library LPs issued between 1974 & 1976 on Montparnasse & Mondiophone by the storied French bandleader & Composer Camille Sauvage, presaged w/ bonus materials as issued by Music De Wolfe (on 78RPM 10" & LP) in 1961 & 1973, respectively.

Credited to Celebrity Symphony Orchestra, the original 1961 "Musique Concrete And Electronique" issue covers four short pieces for Ondes Martenot (Sauvage was an early proponent of the instrument) & ensemble, acting a more abstract & impressionistic (the writing takes many pages from the Debussy/Ravel playbook) foil to Jean-Jacques Perrey's contemporanous "Mr. Ondioline" outings. The first disc continues with "Fantasmagories" (#MP 33, 1974; although heard here in its, to my ears, slightly better, later pressing on Zéro International Records) & it's here that things get really interesting; a general sense of malaise creeps in (surely this is where J.P. Massiera / Horrific Child cribbed many ideas) spurred on by pointillist concert percussion and pitchless electronics that lands somewhere between the electronically-tinged free improv of Morris Pert & the more outré end of the Italian "Giallo" film-score miasma (Morricone / Il Gruppo for sure). At the tail-end of the disc, we get the (same) two "Musique Concrete And Electronique" pieces (slightly reconfigured) as issued on the "Creeps" comp (#DW/LP 3269, 1973) followed by the two short Ivor Slaney pieces (for completion's sake) from #DW 2687.*

The second disc kicks off w/ 1975's "Delirium Tremens" (#MON 28; subtitled "Angoisse Et Mystère, or "Anguish & Mystery") & it's here that the production (by the imprint's Louis Delacour, and featuring Georges "Nino Nardini" Teperino & Roger Roger throughout) ramps things up considerably, with a fairly consistent layer of keening synths & "Effets Spéciaux" dotting the largely improvised "Nightmare-Space-Jazz" constructs. Finally, "7 Drums Concerto" (#MON 34, 1976) is Sauvage's masterpiece, fusing Free Jazz & Freely Improvised playing with (again) Teperino & Roger's Electronic touches in increasingly more transgressive & experimental combinations, yielding some of the best music from the whole French Library milieu.

Comes as two discs in side a six-panel booklet, w/ the familiar "Diagonal-Lane" layout & panels dedicated to the tracklistings of "Delerium" & "7 Drums"; incredible music!