CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE Holy 1 & 2 RARE 2 LP Minimal Music Drone FLUXUS MINT LTD

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CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE: “Holy 1 & Holy 2”

LABEL: ALGA MARGHEN

Label Number: alga -9

- RARE 1st original Pressing that came out 16 years ago

- Limited numbered edition of ONLY 380 copies

- Comes housed in very clean and sturdy gatefold jacket with no damages at all

- Amazing CONDITION of this minimal drone music masterpiece

- For ARCHIVAL COLLECTOR – TOP CONDITION

GRADING:

2 LP Record: Near Mint – super clean condition, hardly any signs of play, no defects, shiny and glossy surface. TOP condition for ARCHIVAL COLLECTOR

Gatefold Jacket: Near Mint with sharp corners, sturdy fully readable spine. Straight edges and NO damages or discoloration. Archival condition

Some words on this issue: CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE: “Holy 1 & Holy 2” (2 LP Set: Near Mint/ Gatefold Jacket: Near Mint). Long out of print devastatingly beautiful 2 LP set released in a limited run of only 380 copies. This set is number 306/380. In Charlemagne’s own words, here is the deal: “Holy 1 and Holy 2 were both recorded in NYC in 1967. I was reading Helmholz - and listening to a lot of ethnic world music but I was also very immersed in the late night New York soundscape. My friend saxophonist Bob Feldman and I would often take long walks 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning from Battery Park at the lowest point in Manhattan to where we lived on 87th Street and Riverside Drive and absorb the spacial sound diversity and beauty that such a big city could only express very late at night. Then other nights when I composed I worked also at night. From midnight to 7 or 8 in the morning with a mattress on the floor I would build up a sound oscillator by oscillator then add ever so slightly to the oscillators input tiny increments of white noise that would gradually make the sounds thicker and thicker until they were immense sacred machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees making all the room and objects in it resonate while outside all was quiet and sleeping. I worked like a painter with a palette and a canvas and I mixed and added and mixed and added over entire nights. I played them very loud mixing adding and then lying on the mattress and listening and fine tuning finally at a certain point. After several nights the sonority seemed ready to record I’d put on the tape prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload it and I’d record the texture. Holy 1 & 2 were done in this way. Later on I was asked by Gus Solomons a choreographer at New York University to create a texture for a new dance work he wanted to present and as he was a student of Merce Cunningham. He had the same habit of asking a composer to create a work without ever hearing it until the performance. We just agreed on how long it would be we chose something like 70 minutes and in 1968 I brought both Holy 1 & 2 to the theatre to decide which one to use for the dance and found that for me at that moment each one was too thin played alone for such a big open space and finally tried the 2 sonorities together. They fit strangely but well so I used them both and after that I played them sometimes separately together and sometimes and so Holy 1 & 2 became a work itself” Minimal music masterpiece

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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