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Fant\u00f4me Phonographique<\/strong> present a reissue of Jean-Jacques Perrey<\/strong>‘s “Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em>, originally released in 1958. Jean-Jacques Perrey<\/strong> was one of the earliest innovators in electronic music, creating a body of work spanning decades that has influenced everyone from Brian Eno<\/strong> to The Beastie Boys<\/strong>. One of the pioneers of musique concr\u00e8te and electronic tape manipulation,\u00a0“Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em> (“Prelude to Sleep”) is Perrey<\/strong>‘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”,\u00a0“Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em> consists of two side-long tracks played on the Ondioline (George Jenny<\/strong>‘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<\/strong> and Terry Riley<\/strong> developed a decade later.<\/p>\n

The music of “Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em>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<\/strong>. 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 “Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em> came about five years after its release, when in 1962 Epic Records produced the three volumes of Soothing Sounds For Baby<\/em> from Raymond Scott<\/strong>. A droning\/bubbling work of early electronic,\u00a0“Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em> vacillates between playful and serious, light and dark, a truly beautiful piece from an icon of electronic music.<\/p>\n

Essential. Edition of 500.<\/p>\n

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Fant\u00f4me Phonographique<\/strong> present a reissue of Jean-Jacques Perrey<\/strong>‘s “Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em>, originally released in 1958. Jean-Jacques Perrey<\/strong> was one of the earliest innovators in electronic music, creating a body of work spanning decades that has influenced everyone from Brian Eno<\/strong> to The Beastie Boys<\/strong>. One of the pioneers of musique concr\u00e8te and electronic tape manipulation,\u00a0“Pr\u00e9lude Au Sommeil<\/strong>“<\/em> (“Prelude to Sleep”) is Perrey<\/strong>‘s debut recording but shows a composer already at maturity.<\/p>\n

Essential. Edition of 500.<\/p>\n

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