PRE-ORDER: Eliane Radigue - Complete Feedback Works [Vinyl]

Over a period of ten years, between 2011 and 2022, Alga Marghen published a series of previously unreleased early magnetic tape and feedback works by Eliane Radigue. Six LPs, which for the first time revealed where her music came from. Now the whole series of records is gathered into a single object, the form the series always deserved: Complete Feedback Works, a six LP box in a numbered edition of 200 copies. The original artwork of each sleeve has been restored and reprinted in monochrome blue, and every record comes with its own set of extra materials: inserts, booklets, postcards and posters drawn from the composer's archive -- photographs, scores, texts, traces of the happenings and galleries where these works were first heard. Eliane Radigue was a shining light who, for more than half a century, quietly blazed trails with a music production that is as creatively visionary as it is sublime. Absolutely essential on every count, these five titles illuminate the remarkable beginnings of one of the greatest composers. Gathered here as a whole, with restored artwork and an archive's worth of printed matter, they finally read as what they always were: a single, continuous document. Born in 1932, Éliane Radigue began her musical endeavors in Paris during the late 1950s and early '60s, working under Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, before quickly outstepping her mentors. Initially working predominantly in tape, during the early 1970s she made the radical switch to modular synthesis, beginning a decades long exploration of the ARP 2500 that drew on her practice as a Buddhist and pushed the notions of musicality endlessly forward, taking the entire landscape of experimental sound with her through a series of sonic meditations that bound life and art. During the early 2000s, Radigue set aside her synth, embarking upon a hiatus from music, before taking the unexpected step of beginning to compose works with and for acoustic instrumentalists. By the early 2010s, this new phase in her career had begun to emerge as the sprawling Occam Ocean series, arguably bringing her more acclaim and adoration than any other point in her long career. Fittingly, it was during roughly this same moment, beginning with Jouet Electronique, that Alga Marghen embarked upon their archival series dedicated to Radigue's earliest and previously unavailable works, offering an unprecedented and much needed sense of dimension to the breadth of her career. Followed in rapid succession by Feedback Works, Vice-Versa, etc and Opus 17 -- each mining the period when the composer worked predominantly with magnetic tape -- nearly a decade then passed before the final instalment, In Memoriam-Ostinato / Danse des Dakinis, appeared in 2022.

Jouet Electronique/Elemental I
A1. Jouet Electronique
B1. Elemental I: Air - Vent
B2. Elemental I: Feu
B3. Elemental I: Terre - Eau - Pluie
B4. Elemental I: Mer

Feedback Works 1969-1970
C1. Stress-Osaka
C2. Usral
D1. Omnht

Vice-Versa, Etc
E1. Mix I
F1. Mix II

Opus 17
G1. Etude
H1. Maquette
H2. Epure
I1. Safari
J1. Number 17

In Memoriam-Ostinato / Danse des Dakinis
K1. In Memoriam-Ostinato
L1. Danse des Dakinis