- Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:48 am
#98182
LIBRA
Philippe Besombes
1975, Pole
France
Libra is the score to an experimental feature by the 'Pattern' group, one it seems that is impossible to find (I've tried!), a dialogue-free film about four people living in harmony with nature whose existence is upset by a crashed US satellite!
Whether the film is any good I cannot say, but the freakout electro-psych score by Besombes and a large assembled group of superb French musicians is incredible. Somewhere between acid prog and proto electronica, the tracks on the LP conjure a synthetic science fiction landscape which probably has very little to do with the movie they accompany, and it's just a superb, trippy stand alone album.
The original Pole Records edition can still be found for not too much, and there have been a few nice reissues including a current release on blue vinyl in 2017.
https://www.discogs.com/Philippe-Besomb ... ter/168681
I love this soundtrack, from a very heady era of French experimental/rock/psych which also birthed the likes of Jean Claude Vannier and Jean Pierre Massiera! I would also heavily recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the score for PHASE IV by Brian Gascoigne/Desmond Briscoe/Stomu Y'amashta. Hits that sweet spot pretty hard. There's a good bit of Pierre Henry's classic "Psyche Rock" vibe on many of these tracks as well, leading me to think that they may well have some musicians in common?
I will also say that by Track 4 - Ballad En Velo - you can also discern a pretty clear influence upon AIR and Sebastian Tellier.
Here's an extensive appreciation from Head Heritage:
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1501/
Here's the full soundtrack:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1h9sC7Gg9qU
Enjoy the trip, circle spinners......you may never return........
Philippe Besombes
1975, Pole
France
Libra is the score to an experimental feature by the 'Pattern' group, one it seems that is impossible to find (I've tried!), a dialogue-free film about four people living in harmony with nature whose existence is upset by a crashed US satellite!
Whether the film is any good I cannot say, but the freakout electro-psych score by Besombes and a large assembled group of superb French musicians is incredible. Somewhere between acid prog and proto electronica, the tracks on the LP conjure a synthetic science fiction landscape which probably has very little to do with the movie they accompany, and it's just a superb, trippy stand alone album.
The original Pole Records edition can still be found for not too much, and there have been a few nice reissues including a current release on blue vinyl in 2017.
https://www.discogs.com/Philippe-Besomb ... ter/168681
I love this soundtrack, from a very heady era of French experimental/rock/psych which also birthed the likes of Jean Claude Vannier and Jean Pierre Massiera! I would also heavily recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the score for PHASE IV by Brian Gascoigne/Desmond Briscoe/Stomu Y'amashta. Hits that sweet spot pretty hard. There's a good bit of Pierre Henry's classic "Psyche Rock" vibe on many of these tracks as well, leading me to think that they may well have some musicians in common?
I will also say that by Track 4 - Ballad En Velo - you can also discern a pretty clear influence upon AIR and Sebastian Tellier.
Here's an extensive appreciation from Head Heritage:
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1501/
Here's the full soundtrack:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1h9sC7Gg9qU
Enjoy the trip, circle spinners......you may never return........