Le voyage

by Pierre Henry

Le voyage cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1968
  • Label: Philips
  • Country: France
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Composed by the legendary pioneer of electroacoustic music, this extended suite serves as a harrowing, abstract sonic interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Utilizing extensive tape manipulation, chilling synthesizer drones, and manipulated vocal samples, Henry constructs an overwhelmingly dark, sparse environment intended to guide the soul through the afterlife. It is a deeply influential, conceptually immense masterwork of early electronic avant-garde composition.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, noisy, minimalistic, avant-garde, dance, electronic, rhythmic, party, club

Tracklist

  1. Soul Samba
  2. Breeze (DJ Marky VIP)

Credits

  • Cleveland Watkiss - featuring [vocals]
  • Hugh Burrows - lyrics by

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