Nicolae Brînduș, "Soliloque I, Soliloque IV, Match, Antifonia" [CP-236]

Nicolae Brînduș was born in Bucharest in 1935 and swiftly matriculated through his studies in Piano & Composition at the National University of Music before embarking on the life-changing seminars at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt throughout the late 60s & early 70s; even working at IRCAM for a spell in the mid-1980s.
How this formative music, composed & recorded largely during his Darmstadt phase, has remained so relatively unknown is insane to me; it has all of the hallmarks of the exact configuration of elements that we hold dear: excessive use of gain, tape-speed effects and dozens of sound-on-sound layerings of acoustic instrumentation, errant electronics, & even extra-musical materials. There's something just so indefinably off-the-rails about it all, and this extends through all four pieces; careening, energetic tape assemblage with little to no compare.
These are absolutely spellbinding, clangorous pile-ups rivaling Anestis Logothetis at his most wild & woolly, the discovery of which led to a thorough investigation down through the deepest recesses / wormholes of the Electrecord catalogue, which unearthed a veritable treasure trove of amazing work, all virtually unknown outside of Romania, with several titles yet to come across this 23x sub-series. Hold on to your hats!
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i love it amazing!

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This is amazing

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This is such an incredible LP

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Of the recent/final-year CP titles this is probably my personal favorite, as I had no idea it existed until I heard it for the first time! Incredible music, unparalleled.

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@Lee Chapman No; I’ll investigate! Hanno is a treasure!

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I completed filing out and filing my taxes this year listening to this. Thanks Keith.

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it's the perfect, cathartic extension of just absolutely eating crow and paying the government to live