Jean Perrey Jacques: Prelude Au Sommeil - VINYL LP

Jean Perrey Jacques: Prelude Au Sommeil - VINYL LPTitle: Prelude Au Sommeil Artist: Jean Perrey Jacques Label: Fantome Phonographiq Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 637913862045 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2018 03 23 Number of Discs: 1 Fantome Phonographique present a reissue of Jean Jacques Perrey's Prlude Au Sommeil, originally released in 1958. Jean Jacques Perrey was one of the earliest innovators in electronic music, creating a body of work spanning decades that has influenced everyone from Brian Eno

Title: Prelude Au Sommeil
Artist: Jean Perrey Jacques
Label: Fantome Phonographiq
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 637913862045
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2018-03-23
Number of Discs: 1

Fantome Phonographique present a reissue of Jean-Jacques Perrey's Prélude Au Sommeil, originally released in 1958. Jean-Jacques Perrey was one of the earliest innovators in electronic music, creating a body of work spanning decades that has influenced everyone from Brian Eno to The Beastie Boys. One of the pioneers of musique concrète and electronic tape manipulation, Prélude Au Sommeil ("Prelude to Sleep") is Perrey's debut recording but shows a composer already at maturity. Originally released at the end of the fifties, as a private press under the fake institutional name "Institut Dormiphone", Prélude Au Sommeil consists of two side-long tracks played on the Ondioline (George Jenny's 1941 vacuum-tube based, spring-loaded electronic instrument). The music contained in this mysterious vinyl is like something between dreamy church organ hymns and the keyboard-based minimalism that Philip Glass and Terry Riley developed a decade later. The music of Prélude Au Sommeil was intended as sleep-inducing and tranquilizing for use in mental hospitals. It is unclear if the copies pressed actually had been distributed to mental hospitals or if the whole story was just a fantastical joke on the part of Mr. Perrey. This album is known as a precursor of what would later became known as "ambient music", 20 years before Brian Eno, the Kosmic Courier and the American minimalists. Something vaguely similar to Prélude Su Sommeil came about five years after it's release, when in 1962 Epic Records produced the three volumes of Soothing Sounds For Baby from Raymond Scott. A droning/bubbling work of early electronic, Prélude Au Sommeil vacillates between playful and serious, light and dark, a truly beautiful piece from an icon of electronic music. Essential. Edition of 500.

Tracks:
1.1 Prélude Au Sommeil - Jean-Jacques Perrey
1.2 Prélude Au Sommeil - Jean-Jacques Perrey