Ghedalia Tazartes

Leave it to a revived thread on ILX to inspire a kick: I'm now digging out my (four) GT CDs and plan to spend the afternoon getting reacquainted. iirc the ones I really loved were Une Eclipse Totale de Soleil and Transports, don't remember the others as well.

It occurs to me that a lot of his contemporaries (if such a group could even be said to exist) would take any one of the single ideas on these records and stretch that idea out for an album side or longer. There are so many of these vignettes (that is not at all the correct word but it'll do for now) that I wish went on much longer than they do (though tbf there are also 30 second segments I wish were about 28 seconds shorter).

RIP Ghedalia Tazartes 😭 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/FXP81WdjAQ

— Oren Ambarchi (@orenambarchi) February 9, 2021

aw fuck, what a unique voice and sound. RIP

awww shit

RIP

dude was from another planet. don’t know if I’ll ever fully comprehend transportes

aww! no. one of thee best. beyond unique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcpD7DOvng

just listening to him for the first time now. diasporas. sort of prefigures late period Scott Walker

got into him right at the peak of an exhaustion with sample collage and was just grateful there seemed to be precedent for such a personal solution -- he sings his way right out of the trap, for such assembled music all the most important things aren't samples. those first three records quietly tower above, I could not love them more

these days the thing that hits me the most is the way his kids turn up in the music. normally, samples of kids are the worst cliche. somehow with him, keeping parenthood profound and mysterious and totally normal and beautiful

fave deep cut from a 1999 french comp - Ghédalia et Elie Tazartès - 'Titus & Annick' - https://we.tl/t-t3xJjPPQTx

thanks for that, Milton

hey wow, should have checked! so obscure it's on bandcamp with CDs still in stock (strong comp btw) - https://erratum.bandcamp.com/track/gh-dalia-tazartes-titus-annick

just sent a friend these recs

https://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/assassins-1
https://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/transmalabar
https://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/mother
https://ghedalia-tazartes.bandcamp.com/track/country-3

I hope there would be a possibility to preserve his apartment as some kind of home museum. Or at least document it thoroughly (à la Francis Bacon's studio). Tazartes' work exemplifies the notion of life-as-art.

RIP

I listened to the first side of Une Eclipse Totale de Soleil for the first time - pretty exciting stuff. those pictures of his apartment and the interior work of art he created therein remind me of my first boyfriend.

the emmanuelle parrenin / detlef weinrich album that tazartes appeared on (recorded in 2019 but released a month before his death) is one of my favorite albums of the year - reminds me heavily of brigitte fontaine + areski's collaborations, with a more obvious electronic element (weinrich = tolouse low trax)

https://ra.co/reviews/25426
https://shop.versatilerecords.com/album/emmanuelle-parrenin-detlef-weinrich-jours-de-gr-ve-lp-verlp41

thank you so much! had not heard of that.