Musiques machinales

by Pierre Bastien & Mecanium

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: G33G
  • Country: France
  • Length: 47:11
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Musiques machinales' showcases Pierre Bastien's eccentric genius for constructing self-playing, robotic musical instruments out of Meccano parts and recycled motors. The resulting electroacoustic compositions are fascinatingly rhythmic and repetitive, bridging the gap between surreal mechanical noise and charming toy pop.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, rhythmic, minimalistic, avant-garde, atmospheric, instrumental, experimental, minimal, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Inanga Conga (3:26)
  2. Musique Machinale (2:50)
  3. New Rotative Methods (2:36)
  4. Woolloomooloo Bay (4:49)
  5. Vipers (5:31)
  6. People In Sorrow (4:19)
  7. Chez Les Cr芒nes (2:07)
  8. Temps M锚l茅s (4:33)
  9. Marchin' Band (5:52)
  10. Mangbetu (9:27)
  11. Conga Inanga (1:41)

Credits

  • Mecanium - primary artist, strings [inanga], cornet, mbira [sanza], strings [godje], harp [dousso n'gouni], cello, cornet, guitar, contrabass, percussion, castanets, xylophone, tambourine, harmonium, saw, violin, xylophone, strings [inanga], cornet, trombone, other [konde, riti], violin, mbira [sanza], bass, mandolin, trumpet, mbira [ikembe]
  • Evert Maliangkay - congas
  • The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - composed by
  • Bexium - clarinet
  • Ewoud Plate - contrabass

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