(Musique Concrete, Drone, Electronic, Avant-garde, Experimental ) Luc Ferrari - Ephemere I & II - 2010, FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

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TITLE "Ephemere I & II"
PERFORMER "Luc Ferrari"
REM GENRE "Electronica/Dance"
REM DATE 1978
REM DISCNUMBER 1
REM TOTALDISCS 1
REM DISCID 0F126D02
FILE "01 - Ephemere I.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Ephemere I"
    SONGWRITER "Luc Ferrari"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02 - Ephemere II.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Ephemere II"
    SONGWRITER "Luc Ferrari"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

"Presented here for the first time, 'Ephemere I & II' (for tape, or to be played with various instruments) are two previously unpublished masterpieces which represent for several reasons a very specific moment in the creative life and catalogue of Luc Ferrari. Even if Luc Ferrari's perfect skill in creating some of the most beautiful sonic works ever is now well known to the large audience appreciating his music, the undetermined character marking the two works presented here is quite surprising. Luc Ferrari was tempted in the mid-1970s by the idea of leaving the final realization of these pieces open to the performer's intervention (a perspective he decided not to develop in future researches).
'Exercises d'Improvisation', a score conceived in 1977 and unreleased for almost 35 years (first recorded this year by the GOL collective with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari for an LP to be issued on PLANAM), directly comes from the two works presented here.
'Ephemere I' (or 'L'ordinateur ̤a sert Ì quoin?' i.e. 'What's the use of computers') is a 27 minute piece for tape only, created in 1974, conceived as a kind of electronic drone superimposed by fragments of multi-language whispered voices that creates the thrilling effect of a 'sea-like' continuum.
'Ephemere II' (or 'Lyon 75' after the only recorded realization) is a 51 minute tape piece with guitar improvisation. The electronic repetitive structure reminds some of the most radical works of American composer Terry Riley, while the guitar sounds, first resulting as live manipulated pointillistic impulses, develop into a blues sonority superimposing the tape drone and creating a heavy psychedelic atmosphere of the most sublime kind. The end of this long suite lead us back into more abstract and live-electronic sonorities. This very intense work can be placed in a context between scored music and totally improvised music."