Deception, parade ...
It was under these themes as this album proves intriguing and remarkable. The liner notes are recording and the composition of this work in 1974. Masayo Asahara was then studying at Osaka University and completed a Ph.D. on American minimalists like LaMonte Young and Tony Conrad . Under the influence of groups like Faust and more rock Soft Machine, she decided to record one of his compositions fusing minimal music and more progressive rock.
ensued one of the best records I listened to this year, composed of organ drones interspersed with tape manipulation and increased by a healthy dose of free jazz. I rarely got his hands on a disc that incorporated both different genres of music that I like. Notice to all: it is incomprehensible that this disc has not slipped into obscure music charts for years 70. Incomprehensible because quite simply sublime.
The story is still well put together with only a few copies "test press", distributed to musicians and friends, and eventually fade into oblivion. The musicians are named on the cover, contemporary history is recounted Asahara, a photo of her at Stonehenge ... From the beginning the table is set to drool all collectors and fans of the genre, my first.
But a quick search on the internets tells us that we were cheated. It is rather a very contemporary work, composed in 2002 by a certain Martin Archer The man behind the label of improvised music Discus English. There is also a musician who failed to quench the free-jazz and electro-acoustics. He recently released a duo CD with vocalist Julie Tippetts garnering rave reviews. Nevertheless, it emerges with the feeling of having done wrong.
For Lacan, love is the result of a deception in which we can convince the other that it has what it lacks, therefore, give what one does not. This dynamic is exemplified beautifully with this disc by Martin Archer and the feeling that he instilled in me at first was just as fascinating than falling in love. Did not I already said that my research and my search for love drives are closely related? It is even more true that not taking back my life is not the music of the disc, but any image that surrounds it.
also on the cover, we have a canvas dating from 1450 by the painter Jean Fouquet . It is part of a diptych famous and represents the Virgin Mary suckling the child Jesus surprisingly chubby (and older). This is one of the few representations of the Virgin, where she reveals the whole of one of her breasts. The story goes that he would rather be a portrait, that of Agnes Sorel first official mistress of a king of France. It would have died at the age of 28 years and recent research suggests it has probably been poisoned by mercury. It is strange that a portrait of the Virgin Mary is actually inspired by a woman who is anything but virgin ... The work actually is surely not what it seems. This diptych was commissioned by a certain Stephen Knight, who was "very close" to Agnes Sorel and also his executor. Perhaps it is a hoax. Presumably Knight as a lover close to Agnes and the only way for him to possess the mistress of the king was to order his portrait and nobody suspected. Besides angels and cherubs that complement the painting are all busy looking elsewhere.
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