Eliane Radigue

book is fantastic, Eckhardt gets her to go into detail on every single piece. lots of insights into early inspirations and the early feedback / pre-synth work. and lots about Occam Océan 2 for orchestra, which she does the same way she writes for individuals - she meets with every single member of the ensemble for at least a day, has them demonstrate their instrument and she builds up from there

still playing Occam Ocean 2 a lot. there isn't anything like it. in a sane world there'd be reviews.

I think the only place I saw it reviewed was on an obscure free jazz blog

That book looks great

There is so much going on in her work in such a subtle way

I feel like listening to it in my kitchen on my hundred quid speakers is not doing it right. Can only dream of kitting out the Rothko Chapel with a state of the art sound system and listening to it full welly!

in my tentative and unschooled opinion music actually doesn't get any better than Eliane Radigue

yeah for real

Trilogie is one of my top discoveries from the ambient albums poll

Some fool obviously didn't think much of "Jetsun Mila" so I picked it up secondhand for less than a fiver. Sweet!

(... also "Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna" by Morricone, maybe a different fool though).

90 years old today

looking forward to hearing her first organ work Occam XXV when it comes out in March.

This month's The Wire has a good Primer on her discography. It had an interesting factoid that it's only recently that she's developed a significant discography.

https://vimeo.com/541076521/d661c359f7

short doc here

NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/arts/music/eliane-radigue-music.html

looking forward to hearing her first organ work Occam XXV when it comes out in March.

It's a total beaut

https://organreframed.bandcamp.com/album/occam-xxv-2

there's a live performance from a couple of years back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jdHIHzvhkQ

Already sold out! Hope there will be a second run.

In other news the 14 CD INA/GRM box set is back in print.

https://boomkat.com/products/electronic-works

That's a really nice package but I just recently purchased Adnos I-III and Trilogie de la Mort as stand-alones, so I think I'll pass.

(xp) ... as is Bernard Parmegiani, "L’œuvre musical en 12 CD", because I've just ordered it.

Thanks for the heads up. Also bought the Parmegiani. This is the kind of classical music I buy on BoomKat.

In other news the 14 CD INA/GRM box set is back in print.

Indeed it is and I found a pretty cheap copy of it online and ordered it ... only for it to be caught up in a dispute between Parcelforce and this hellhole of a local post office of mine. Basically someone at the post office has stolen it and they're desperately trying to cover their tracks by denying they ever received it, Parcelforce are just pointing to their records and saying they did. Did. Didn't. Did. Didn't. Did. Didn't. Did. Didn't. Meanwhile, I'm stuck in the middle, having spent almost as much on phonecalls as the value of the box set (quite literally) with no prospect of ever receiving it and not much more prospect of ever receiving any compensation for it. I would call the British postal service third world but that would be insulting to most third world countries.

Can't wait until the postal thief puts it on and wonders wtf he stole.

With a bit of luck they'll return it as faulty.

To me. In person. It's an unusual crime, for sure.

An old friend of mine who was a postie in the 90's did a couple of years in prison for that. I can't remember if he was stealing mail or he just couldn't be arsed delivering it but they threw the book at him. He was living at his brother's house and due to a misunderstanding the cops broke his brother's door in after a couple of unanswered welfare check visits and then saw a pile of undelivered mail next to a post bag and reported it straight to the Post Office. After that I always assumed mail/parcel theft by postal workers was perhaps too risky to be a common sort of crime.

This hasn't been stolen by a postie it's been stolen by one of the staff at the post office branch.

Apparently parcels are constantly going missing at this post office. I think they rely on the fact that so many of their customers don't know how to go about making a claim. A lot of their clientele don't have very good (or any) English language skills or are ancient and/or unlikely to have sufficient knowledge/ skills/ support. Also there's a lot of transitory residents in this area. It's no a service, it's a cash cow for a bunch of cynical crooks.

There used to be a nice big post office on Holloway Road - well run and with helpful and knowledgeable staff. That got sold off and is now a B & Q. Instead we ended up with this utter shithole which has been run by a never-ending stream of shysters and cowboys ever since

The place is completely desolate, there's nothing in it apart from a photo booth machine that no-one uses and a couple of dilapidated shelves with some diaries for sale sitting on them. And the inevitable mobile phone shop. This is in area where the rents are completely through the roof despite being an absolute dump.

If you ever want to see a metaphor for the UK in 2022, visit this place. Just don't get any mail delivered there.

Guess what was waiting for me when I got home tonight? Turned up just as mysteriously as it disappeared. Just as well as last time I checked it was on sale for twice what I paid for it.

Yay! "A letter always arrives at its destination"

Neither snow nor rain nor sludge nor drizzle nor the wrong kind of leaves on the line stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, they just like to take their time

To be accurate, the couriers did their job two weeks ago, it was Holloway Post Office who "couldn't find it" and claimed till they were blue in the face that they'd never received it in the first place.

Yeah I went to that place once, never again! Good to know The Drone lives to fight another day though.

This Sunday:

https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/contemporary/eliane-radigue-exploring-occam-rhodri-davies-friends/

Preceded by:

https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/contemporary/gavin-bryars-at-80/