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Dan Kletter 🥑#Upcoming Lavish 6CD limited edition box set gathering these legendary, holy grail, self-released recordings by NWW List and Creel Pone certified French-Romanian spectralist #CostinMiereanu, who occupied a singular position within the French new music landscape. Available via #Metaphon, June 6th. https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/miereanu-costin-poly-art-recordings-1976-1982-6cd/METAPHON.018CD.html
COSTIN MIEREANU : Poly-Art Recordings 1976-1982 - 6CD - METAPHON - Forced Exposure
Auryfa and Metaphon present <U>Poly-Art Recordings 1976-1982</U>, a lavish six-CD box set collecting <B>Costin Miereanu</B>'s legendary series of self-published cassettes and LPs from 1982 and 1984. Culminating four years of meticulous work, this project breathes new life into these recordings, remastered from the original tapes by <B>Stephan Mathieu</B> and accompanied by restored artwork and a comprehensive essay by <B>Vincent de Roguin</B>. Born in Bucharest in 1943 and naturalized as a French citizen in 1977, Miereanu occupied a singular position within the French new music landscape -- one foot in the establishment, the other in a world of deeply personal, boundary-pushing creativity. Alongside his intricate orchestral works and demanding academic career, he also produced the semi-improvised solo performances and electroacoustic compositions featured in this collection. Drawing inspiration from <B>Erik Satie</B>, film soundtracks, semiology, Romanian folk and art music, <B>Gilles Deleuze</B>, avant-garde literature, <B>Terry Riley</B>, and atmospheric phenomena, these twelve pieces were crafted using an array of synthesizers -- Minimoog, Polymoog, PPG Wave, Prophet-10 -- supplemented by piano, organ, and a handful of other instrumental sources. Their textural palette and occasional whimsy bear affinities with 1970s meditative synth music, yet they eschew psychedelic excess or cosmic grandeur. Instead, they reveal a vibrant, nuanced complexity that becomes more apparent with each listen, rooted in Miereanu's extensive musical studies and commitment to the ideals of 1960s experimentalism. Within that period's context, this music ultimately sails in the same sonic currents as <B>Harold Budd</B> and <B>Brian Eno</B>'s collaboration, and the output of <B>David Behrman</B>, <B>Alvin Curran</B>, or <B>Laurie Spiegel</B>. Originally released on Miereanu's own Poly-Art International/Records and initially met with limited attention, these recordings have since gained underground acclaim among new generations of listeners. They offer a rare synthesis of accessibility and formal ambition, reflecting Miereanu's unwavering pursuit of artistic freedom, a world away from the high culture dogmatisms inherent to the European modernist tradition. His wide-ran-ging associations -- from the spectralists (<B>Horațiu Rădulescu</B>, <B>Tristan Murail</B>, and <B>Gérard Grisey</B>) to mavericks such as <B>Giacinto Scelsi</B>, <B>Luc Ferrari</B>, and <B>Walter Marchetti</B>, as well as the French underground electronic music scene (including <B>Philippe Besombes</B> and <B>Jean-Louis Rizet</B>, who engineered much of this music, and <B>Richard Pinhas</B>) -- help illuminate his unique artistic position.
Pasquale 📷 🇫🇷 🦻 
@waldokanto Je te recommande chaudement le coffret #OctavianNemescu sur #Metaphon :
https://metaphon2.bandcamp.com/album/passages-travers-le-temps
Passages... Ã travers le Temps, by Octavian Nemescu
7 track album
#Disque du jour, bonjour !
Et je vous emmène dans un voyage musical de toute beauté, du côté des Carpathes :
#OctavianNemescu • Passages... à travers le temps (Metaphon, 2025)
https://metaphon2.bandcamp.com/album/passages-travers-le-temps
Toujours un travail admirable de la part de #Metaphon, avec ce magnifique coffret, qui regroupe quelques oeuvres du compositeur roumain. C'est à mon avis absolument indispensable !
Passages... Ã travers le Temps, by Octavian Nemescu
7 track album
Le superbe coffret #Metaphon de #FernandVandenbogaerde est dispo chez #SouffleContinu :
Pour ceux que ça intéresse, la boutique ANOST (A Number Of Small Things), basée à Berlin, fait des soldes sur un bon paquet de #vinyls avec des trucs super intéressant comme le coffret #RobertFesler paru chez #Metaphon à 100€ au lieu de 120€, ce qui est donné, vu qu'il se revendra bien plus cher d'ici quelques mois. Bref, beaucoup de bonnes choses ici :
Nouveau coffret d'un compositeur que je ne connais absolument pas #FernandVandenbogaerde, disponible chez #Metaphon, dont on ne peut que s'attendre à un truc de qualité.
Disponible en digital chez Bandcamp :
https://metaphon2.bandcamp.com/album/les-ann-es-1967-1984
En coffret 4LP chez La Scie Dorée :
https://lasciedoree.be/shop/lp/fernand-vandenbogaerde-les-annees-1967-1984-4lp-box/
Ne trainez pas pour le coffret, ils partent très vite, et se revendent à des prix défiants toute concurrence.
Les Années 1967-1984, by Fernand Vandenbogaerde
14 track album