MICROMEGAS AVANT GARDE CONCRETE ANDRE ZUMBACH  : CHRONOPHONIE  ON A POEM BY BERNARD FALCIOLA . PERFORMED BY  LE GROUPE DES DIX DE LA RADIO SUISSE ROMANDE , FRANCOIS PERRET FLUTE , ELECTRONIC MUSIC MADE AT THE " CENTRE DE RECHERCHES SONORES DE LA RADIO SUISSE ROMANDE" . SOUND ENGINEERS: CLAUDE GYGY & PIERRE WALDER

PRIVATE RECORD BY SWISS WATCH MAKERS IN LE LOCLE NEUCHATEL SWITZERLAND ,  PLEASE NOTE: MOBILE is MISSING!  

MADE BY " LES FABRIQUES D'ASSORTIMENTS REUNIES , LE LOCLE SWITZERLAND " (SWISS WATCH MAKER MOVEMENTS IN LE LOCLE) .

A very strange record indeed. Mixture of electronic, contemporary classical, theatre, sound poetry, musique concrete and filmesque music this never seen LP was privately published by the great Swiss watch movements manufacturing company "Les fabriques d'assortiment réunies" and given solely to their clients. 

I guess a 100 only were pressed. 

The music is very dark and the poetry as well for this "drama of love and death" as the french liner notes  descibes. 

The comparison that comes first in mind is with the early André Almuro tapes and voice works. 

The surrealist poetry of Bernard Falciola recalls Henri Michaux's "La ralentie", Francis Ponge or Gherasim Luca's poems. 

Beautiful text if you understand french.

The other side is a Joseph Haydn interpretation of "Micromegas VI" by The Collegium Musicum of Geneva.

Rare as an edelweiss in Africa.

Relates to : Michel Philippot / Pierre Henry / Pierre Schaeffer / Ivo Malec / Bernard Parmegiani / 

Guy Reibel / André Almuro / Herbert Eimert / Herbert Brün / Philippe Arthuys / Arsène Souffriau

Label : PRIVATE    , SWITZERLAND

Serial Number : 30-230

RECORD: VG+
COVER : VG+/VG++ (SEE PICTURES)$

MOBILE : MISSING