Pierre Henry
Labyrinthe !
Boomkat Product Review:
Premiere vinyl edition of Pierre Henry’s extraordinary 2003 expedition, sampling and transforming sounds supplied by the GRM’s new wave, a good half century since he began working with musique concrète inventor Pierre Schaeffer, and became instrumental in laying the groundwork for experimental music - from acousmatic electro-acoustic to noise and sampledelic collage.
Pressed on vinyl for first time, twenty years since the CD version, ‘Labyrinth !’ stands out from the mass of Henry’s deeply influential oeuvre for the use of source material made in tribute to his 75th birthday by GRM members; Philippe Dao, François Donato, Evelyne Gayou, Yann Geslin, Diego Losa, Daniel Teruggi and Christian Zanési. Having worked with the raw materials of sound since 15 years old, Henry places some 60 years in pursuit of visionary innovation at the service of a formidably fresh and futuristic deployment of dynamic within this wonderfully disorienting and absorbing hour of psychoacoustic navigation.
Through 10 pieces Henry’s custom techniques are applied to sounds realised and crafted by others, rearranging their inherent stories, sensitivities and qualities into his own abstract narration. As a godfather of those original sounds, he enacts the role of a director/editor/dramaturgist interacting with actors inspired by his own body of work, with results entailing a sort of meta dialogue with himself. Whilst devoid of lyrical or melodic structure, a thrilling sort of sixth sense logic emerges from the procession and guides the open-eared listener from the sci-fi cinematic designs of ‘Enforcement [Deep sink]’ to the almost erotic inference of ‘Noyau Secret [Secret Core]’ and shearing metallic thrills in ‘Entrailles [Entrails]’, culminating an orchestral vastness of layered and diffused horns and strings in the album’s pièce de résistance, ‘Mer Intérieure [Inner Sea]’, and poetically seductive hybrid of alien noir and deeply earthed tones that brings the album to a close in ‘Remontée [Ascension].’
‘Labyrinthe !’ is arguably as vital as any of Henry’s hugely significant, 60+ year catalogue of reorganised sounds, working just as well as an entry portal for the uninitiated listener as any other, and perhaps more so as it ultimately joins the dots across eras of seismic shifts in modern music; from the insightful, anthropomorphic musical analysis of his early tutor, Olivier Messiaen; to the groundbreaking, deconstructionist sonification of music that came with the advent of musique concrète; thru his influence on the mind-expanding capacity of ’70s psychedelia; onto laying the template for hip hop’s sampling tekkerz, and even providing source material for everyone from A Tribe Called Quest and D’Angelo to Ye; not to mention his pop cultural cache as effective composer (with Michel Colombier) of the theme tune to Matt Groening animation ‘Futurama’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Premiere vinyl edition of Pierre Henry’s extraordinary 2003 expedition, sampling and transforming sounds supplied by the GRM’s new wave, a good half century since he began working with musique concrète inventor Pierre Schaeffer, and became instrumental in laying the groundwork for experimental music - from acousmatic electro-acoustic to noise and sampledelic collage.
Pressed on vinyl for first time, twenty years since the CD version, ‘Labyrinth !’ stands out from the mass of Henry’s deeply influential oeuvre for the use of source material made in tribute to his 75th birthday by GRM members; Philippe Dao, François Donato, Evelyne Gayou, Yann Geslin, Diego Losa, Daniel Teruggi and Christian Zanési. Having worked with the raw materials of sound since 15 years old, Henry places some 60 years in pursuit of visionary innovation at the service of a formidably fresh and futuristic deployment of dynamic within this wonderfully disorienting and absorbing hour of psychoacoustic navigation.
Through 10 pieces Henry’s custom techniques are applied to sounds realised and crafted by others, rearranging their inherent stories, sensitivities and qualities into his own abstract narration. As a godfather of those original sounds, he enacts the role of a director/editor/dramaturgist interacting with actors inspired by his own body of work, with results entailing a sort of meta dialogue with himself. Whilst devoid of lyrical or melodic structure, a thrilling sort of sixth sense logic emerges from the procession and guides the open-eared listener from the sci-fi cinematic designs of ‘Enforcement [Deep sink]’ to the almost erotic inference of ‘Noyau Secret [Secret Core]’ and shearing metallic thrills in ‘Entrailles [Entrails]’, culminating an orchestral vastness of layered and diffused horns and strings in the album’s pièce de résistance, ‘Mer Intérieure [Inner Sea]’, and poetically seductive hybrid of alien noir and deeply earthed tones that brings the album to a close in ‘Remontée [Ascension].’
‘Labyrinthe !’ is arguably as vital as any of Henry’s hugely significant, 60+ year catalogue of reorganised sounds, working just as well as an entry portal for the uninitiated listener as any other, and perhaps more so as it ultimately joins the dots across eras of seismic shifts in modern music; from the insightful, anthropomorphic musical analysis of his early tutor, Olivier Messiaen; to the groundbreaking, deconstructionist sonification of music that came with the advent of musique concrète; thru his influence on the mind-expanding capacity of ’70s psychedelia; onto laying the template for hip hop’s sampling tekkerz, and even providing source material for everyone from A Tribe Called Quest and D’Angelo to Ye; not to mention his pop cultural cache as effective composer (with Michel Colombier) of the theme tune to Matt Groening animation ‘Futurama’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Premiere vinyl edition of Pierre Henry’s extraordinary 2003 expedition, sampling and transforming sounds supplied by the GRM’s new wave, a good half century since he began working with musique concrète inventor Pierre Schaeffer, and became instrumental in laying the groundwork for experimental music - from acousmatic electro-acoustic to noise and sampledelic collage.
Pressed on vinyl for first time, twenty years since the CD version, ‘Labyrinth !’ stands out from the mass of Henry’s deeply influential oeuvre for the use of source material made in tribute to his 75th birthday by GRM members; Philippe Dao, François Donato, Evelyne Gayou, Yann Geslin, Diego Losa, Daniel Teruggi and Christian Zanési. Having worked with the raw materials of sound since 15 years old, Henry places some 60 years in pursuit of visionary innovation at the service of a formidably fresh and futuristic deployment of dynamic within this wonderfully disorienting and absorbing hour of psychoacoustic navigation.
Through 10 pieces Henry’s custom techniques are applied to sounds realised and crafted by others, rearranging their inherent stories, sensitivities and qualities into his own abstract narration. As a godfather of those original sounds, he enacts the role of a director/editor/dramaturgist interacting with actors inspired by his own body of work, with results entailing a sort of meta dialogue with himself. Whilst devoid of lyrical or melodic structure, a thrilling sort of sixth sense logic emerges from the procession and guides the open-eared listener from the sci-fi cinematic designs of ‘Enforcement [Deep sink]’ to the almost erotic inference of ‘Noyau Secret [Secret Core]’ and shearing metallic thrills in ‘Entrailles [Entrails]’, culminating an orchestral vastness of layered and diffused horns and strings in the album’s pièce de résistance, ‘Mer Intérieure [Inner Sea]’, and poetically seductive hybrid of alien noir and deeply earthed tones that brings the album to a close in ‘Remontée [Ascension].’
‘Labyrinthe !’ is arguably as vital as any of Henry’s hugely significant, 60+ year catalogue of reorganised sounds, working just as well as an entry portal for the uninitiated listener as any other, and perhaps more so as it ultimately joins the dots across eras of seismic shifts in modern music; from the insightful, anthropomorphic musical analysis of his early tutor, Olivier Messiaen; to the groundbreaking, deconstructionist sonification of music that came with the advent of musique concrète; thru his influence on the mind-expanding capacity of ’70s psychedelia; onto laying the template for hip hop’s sampling tekkerz, and even providing source material for everyone from A Tribe Called Quest and D’Angelo to Ye; not to mention his pop cultural cache as effective composer (with Michel Colombier) of the theme tune to Matt Groening animation ‘Futurama’.
Boomkat Product Review:
Premiere vinyl edition of Pierre Henry’s extraordinary 2003 expedition, sampling and transforming sounds supplied by the GRM’s new wave, a good half century since he began working with musique concrète inventor Pierre Schaeffer, and became instrumental in laying the groundwork for experimental music - from acousmatic electro-acoustic to noise and sampledelic collage.
Pressed on vinyl for first time, twenty years since the CD version, ‘Labyrinth !’ stands out from the mass of Henry’s deeply influential oeuvre for the use of source material made in tribute to his 75th birthday by GRM members; Philippe Dao, François Donato, Evelyne Gayou, Yann Geslin, Diego Losa, Daniel Teruggi and Christian Zanési. Having worked with the raw materials of sound since 15 years old, Henry places some 60 years in pursuit of visionary innovation at the service of a formidably fresh and futuristic deployment of dynamic within this wonderfully disorienting and absorbing hour of psychoacoustic navigation.
Through 10 pieces Henry’s custom techniques are applied to sounds realised and crafted by others, rearranging their inherent stories, sensitivities and qualities into his own abstract narration. As a godfather of those original sounds, he enacts the role of a director/editor/dramaturgist interacting with actors inspired by his own body of work, with results entailing a sort of meta dialogue with himself. Whilst devoid of lyrical or melodic structure, a thrilling sort of sixth sense logic emerges from the procession and guides the open-eared listener from the sci-fi cinematic designs of ‘Enforcement [Deep sink]’ to the almost erotic inference of ‘Noyau Secret [Secret Core]’ and shearing metallic thrills in ‘Entrailles [Entrails]’, culminating an orchestral vastness of layered and diffused horns and strings in the album’s pièce de résistance, ‘Mer Intérieure [Inner Sea]’, and poetically seductive hybrid of alien noir and deeply earthed tones that brings the album to a close in ‘Remontée [Ascension].’
‘Labyrinthe !’ is arguably as vital as any of Henry’s hugely significant, 60+ year catalogue of reorganised sounds, working just as well as an entry portal for the uninitiated listener as any other, and perhaps more so as it ultimately joins the dots across eras of seismic shifts in modern music; from the insightful, anthropomorphic musical analysis of his early tutor, Olivier Messiaen; to the groundbreaking, deconstructionist sonification of music that came with the advent of musique concrète; thru his influence on the mind-expanding capacity of ’70s psychedelia; onto laying the template for hip hop’s sampling tekkerz, and even providing source material for everyone from A Tribe Called Quest and D’Angelo to Ye; not to mention his pop cultural cache as effective composer (with Michel Colombier) of the theme tune to Matt Groening animation ‘Futurama’.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Premiere vinyl edition of Pierre Henry’s extraordinary 2003 expedition, sampling and transforming sounds supplied by the GRM’s new wave, a good half century since he began working with musique concrète inventor Pierre Schaeffer, and became instrumental in laying the groundwork for experimental music - from acousmatic electro-acoustic to noise and sampledelic collage.
Pressed on vinyl for first time, twenty years since the CD version, ‘Labyrinth !’ stands out from the mass of Henry’s deeply influential oeuvre for the use of source material made in tribute to his 75th birthday by GRM members; Philippe Dao, François Donato, Evelyne Gayou, Yann Geslin, Diego Losa, Daniel Teruggi and Christian Zanési. Having worked with the raw materials of sound since 15 years old, Henry places some 60 years in pursuit of visionary innovation at the service of a formidably fresh and futuristic deployment of dynamic within this wonderfully disorienting and absorbing hour of psychoacoustic navigation.
Through 10 pieces Henry’s custom techniques are applied to sounds realised and crafted by others, rearranging their inherent stories, sensitivities and qualities into his own abstract narration. As a godfather of those original sounds, he enacts the role of a director/editor/dramaturgist interacting with actors inspired by his own body of work, with results entailing a sort of meta dialogue with himself. Whilst devoid of lyrical or melodic structure, a thrilling sort of sixth sense logic emerges from the procession and guides the open-eared listener from the sci-fi cinematic designs of ‘Enforcement [Deep sink]’ to the almost erotic inference of ‘Noyau Secret [Secret Core]’ and shearing metallic thrills in ‘Entrailles [Entrails]’, culminating an orchestral vastness of layered and diffused horns and strings in the album’s pièce de résistance, ‘Mer Intérieure [Inner Sea]’, and poetically seductive hybrid of alien noir and deeply earthed tones that brings the album to a close in ‘Remontée [Ascension].’
‘Labyrinthe !’ is arguably as vital as any of Henry’s hugely significant, 60+ year catalogue of reorganised sounds, working just as well as an entry portal for the uninitiated listener as any other, and perhaps more so as it ultimately joins the dots across eras of seismic shifts in modern music; from the insightful, anthropomorphic musical analysis of his early tutor, Olivier Messiaen; to the groundbreaking, deconstructionist sonification of music that came with the advent of musique concrète; thru his influence on the mind-expanding capacity of ’70s psychedelia; onto laying the template for hip hop’s sampling tekkerz, and even providing source material for everyone from A Tribe Called Quest and D’Angelo to Ye; not to mention his pop cultural cache as effective composer (with Michel Colombier) of the theme tune to Matt Groening animation ‘Futurama’.
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