Slow Music

by Pascal Comelade

Slow Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Parasite
  • Country: France
  • Community rating: 3.54/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

French avant-garde composer Pascal Comelade continued to carve out his highly idiosyncratic musical niche with the deeply atmospheric 'Slow Music'. Heavily utilizing toy pianos, rudimentary synthesizers, and minimalist repetition, the album weaves melancholic, Satie-inspired melodies into a distinctive lo-fi soundscape. It perfectly encapsulates his playful yet profoundly emotive approach to post-minimalist composition.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, lo-fi, melodic, experimental, minimal, diverse, instrumental, piano, virtuosic, delicate, reflective

Tracklist

  1. Le Verole De Babel
  2. Ritmos Del Fedayin
  3. Harley-Davidson
  4. Music For Sanatorium
  5. Gary Cooper, Always Here
  6. Distorsion Molle ( To K. Leimer)
  7. John Cage Descendant Un Escalier
  8. Morena Fatal (Mambo)
  9. Fragmentes Della Kairos
  10. Les Partisans
  11. Justine
  12. Souvenir From Diagonal
  13. La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?
  14. Nicaragua Arumbaya

Credits

  • Pascal COmelade - primary artist, composed by, drums [toy drums], piano, saxophone [plastic saxes], synth [arp machine], bass [kung-fu bass], marimba
  • Serge Gainsbourg - composed by
  • 小械褉谐械泄 袗谢褘屑芯胁 - composed by
  • 孝懈屑芯褎械泄 袗褌褍褉芯胁 - composed by

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