CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE 'Arpeggiated Bösendorfer + Falsetto Voice' LP (Italy, Alga Marghen, Catalogue #plana-P 29VocSon155) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2017 Alga Marghen label LP edition (edition of 405 copies only) of Charlemagne Palestine recordings from 1974 entitled, on this album, Arpeggiated Bösendorfer + Falsetto Voice.
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In 1974, Ileana Sonnabend commissioned Charlemagne Palestine to create a limited edition, double LP in conjunction with a performance to celebrate the opening of her new Soho gallery at 420 West Broadway. Charlemagne made several recording attempts, first at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania where they had a Bösendorfer Imperial Piano in their theater. He recorded "Bösendorfer + Voice", "Voice Piece" as well as some Bösendorfer tests, with Mayo Thompson as producer and Kurt Munkacsi as sound engineer. These ecstatic Swarthmore recordings, recorded late at night in the big empty theater space, represented the original elements on which Charlemagne Palestine later created the piano pieces for Four Manifestations on Six Elements (ALGAMARS 004LP, MAGNE 008LP). For more than 40 years since these recordings were made, Palestine never went back to listen to them, but recently on re-listening to these Swarthmore recordings with Alga Marghen, he found several blissful, arpeggiated piano and falsetto voice studies which he feels now deserve to be heard. Included in the Alga Marghen VocSon series, this LP of two previously unreleased 1974 recordings finally see the light of day. Edition of 405.
- Charlemagne Palestine and Alga Marghen present previously unreleased arpeggiated piano and falsetto voice studies from 1974
- In 1974, Ileana Sonnabend commissioned Palestine to create a limited edition, double LP to celebrate the opening of her Soho gallery at 420 West Broadway.
- This release features Charlemagne's first recording attempt at Swarthmore College, PA, with Mayo Thompson as producer and Kurt Munkacsi as sound engineer.
- These recordings represent the original elements on which Palestine later created the piano pieces for Four Manifestations on Six Elements (ALGAMARS 004LP, MAGNE 008LP).
- Edition of 405.
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
A1 | Voice Piece | 15:24 |
B1 | Bösendorfer + Voice Take One | 5:17 |
B2 | Bösendorfer + Voice Take Two | 10:22 |
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