INA Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Here comes a first-time vinyl version of Luc Ferrari's groundbreaking electroacoustic works L'uvre Electronique, showcasing his forward-thinking approach to composition and experimental music research in France's radical musique concrete period. Ferrari was among the many pioneers of the genre 'musique concrete' referred to any music that used prerecorded sounds as raw material for composition, making it a '40s-50s precursor to all of electronic music as we know it today. Ferrari emerged from the scene's sound poetry fringes, but ultimately this compilation definitively captures far more than just the work of a scene-adjacent or a tinkerer. This is the work of a master, with sudden clunkers like 'Visage 5' contracting to long-form, dubiously suspenseful sample-deluges like 'Heterozygote'.