REIBEL, GUY - Choeurs Imaginaires

CD issue compiling three of Reibels voice-themed works over the years: On e-ɬªt dit des coups dailes (an homage to Pierre Schaeffer from 1996 incorporating digital processing into a post-Penderecki/Ligeti landscape), Suite pour Edgar Poe (a super-bleepy setting of three poems from the Beaudelaire translations of Poe (Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires) to concrete sound from 1973), and a section of Langages imaginaires (also a grouping of poetry, in this case Rimbaud and Butor, and word-sound from 1981). Reibels up there in my book with Parmegiani and Bayle as one of the chief architects of the digital-age INA sound and this serves as a fine introduction to his monde de bruit. For those who dont mind a little human breath in their computer world. -Hrvatski.