Robert Cahen – La nef des fous [LP] Jazz / Free Improv ” but it wasn’t simply

” but it wasn’t simply given in to that experience: “we were at the same time looking at it from an objective point of view

the piece is the most minimal that Eliane Radigue has ever composed

to the “miniscule phenomenon of the shimmering consciousness

percussion introduces the basic beat of the piece and the voice of the 102 year-old Buddhist priest Ônishi Ryôkei giving a lecture on Kannon sutra is heard

Beginning with a fractured landscape of clarinet flourishes from Petrowsky

Robert Cahen – La nef des fous [LP] Jazz / Free Improv ” but it wasn’t simply"In the 1970s, Robert Cahen turned to the burgeoning field of video art, where he became a pioneering artist. He was originally trained in musique concrte, his creative background, and joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1972. The pieces on this record were composed in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974. They testify to a lively inspiration and imagination combined with a precocious formal mastery that already carries the seeds of later