a r t i s t : Charlemagne Palestine
t i t l e : Alloy
d a t e : 2000
l a b e l : algha marghen
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Dec/2008
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 84,5 MB
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The Golden Research is the name chosen for the complete
documentation of previously unpublished works by Charlemagne
Palestine starting from the early 1960s to the mid-late 1970s.
Such a huge project will include seminal collage and
electronic music, Bell Studies, New York and California
Drones, Piano drones as well as more specific compositions.
All the recordings will be exclusively available through Alga
Marghen. Be ready to change your own opinion about minimalism
and music in general? Holy1 and Holy2 were both recorded in
NYC in 1967. Charlemagne Palestine was listening to a lot of
ethnic world music; he was also immersed in the late night New
York soundscape and absorb the spatial sound diversity and
beauty that such a big city could only express very late at
night? He worked also at night building up a sound, oscillator
by oscillator; then add tiny increments of white noise that
would gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker until they
were immense sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan
bees. The sounds were played very very loud making all the
room and objects in it resonate while outside all was quiet
and sleeping. Holy1 & Holy2 were done this way. Then, in 1969,
Tony Conrad asked Charlemagne Palestine to make some carillon
music for his film Coming Attractions. They were seeing each
other regularly when the Free Music Store of radio station
WBAI asked Palestine to create a piece for an event they were
preparing to broadcast live on radio. So he asked Tony, his
saxophonist Bob Feldman and his then wife and soprano Deborah
Glaser to collaborate on a work that he would organise around
an instrument that he invented at that time called an
Alumonium. Tony Conrad played an instrument that he invented,
the Long String Drone, that was a long string attached to a
long wooden structure and amplified. Bob played the chimes and
a conch. Deborah sand and played chimes and Charlemagne sang,
also played the chimes and some percussion instruments that
they found lying around the hall where they played. The piece
became Alloy and the sound used as all electronic background
continuum, played through loudspeakers in the hall, were
Holy1+2 from 1968. Digipak CD edition with folded insert and
liner notes.
(www.forcedexposure.com)
(www.charlemagnepalestine.org)
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01-Holy 1 [20:04]
02-Holy 2 [10:52]
03-Alloy [22:30]
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53:26 min