MAISON ROSE by EMMANUELLE PARRENIN
| SKU | 96691 |
| Artist | EMMANUELLE PARRENIN |
| Title | MAISON ROSE |
| Label | SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS |
| Catalog # | FF 024 |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 17 - 2017 |
| Format | Vinyl - EULP |
| € 29,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Ce Matin A Fremontel...
- Plume Blanche, Plume Noire
- Liturgie
- Thibault Et L'Arbre D'Or
- Ritournelle
- L'Echarpe De Soie
- Topaze
- Belle Virginie
- Ballade Avec Neptune
- Maison Rose
- Apres L'Ondee
- Le Reve
Description
Recorded in 1977, at the height of punk, these are mysterious, gentle songs, simultaneously ancestral and futuristic — some collected by Parrenin in rural communities, others with lyrics by Jean-Claude Vannier, who attended the recording sessions — occasionally mounting in rhythmic urgency to evoke the open Motorik of Faust. (Have a listen to Topaze.)The engineer was Bruno Menny — a follower of Xenakis — whose 1972 Cosmographie LP is a landmark in French electroacoustic music. He recorded Parrenin in the converted barn of Jacques Denjean, who worked with Dionne Warwick, Francoise Hardy and the Double Six. Albert Marcoeur made two wonderful albums there.
If comparisons are inevitable then Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, Joanna Newsom, Collie Ryan, Shirley Collins, Trees Community, Sourdeline and Veronique Chalot all spring spontaneously to mind... but this is too reductive for the timeless singularity of Emmanuelle Parrenin.
