Delirium In HiFi 1958 pop-concrete lp Andre Popp rare

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Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band: Delirium In Hi-Fi


Columbia Adventures in Sound WL 106 USA 1958 LP Vinyl: nm (stunning condition for its age, appears unplayed)
Cover: ex (1/2" split at right edge of top seam) Original pressing of this scarce album of pre-stereo, pre-synthesizer uneasy listening/early electronic/space-age pop by a pseudonymous Andre Popp and Pierre Fatosme (Popp would later release the equally legendary album 'Holiday for DJs'). The artists took a whimsical approach to the tape-manipulation techniques of musique concrete composers and fellow Frenchmen Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, and Luc Ferrari, turning voices and instruments "inside out", inventing "false instruments", and recording "unplayable and unsingable parts." They painstakingly spliced together tight original pop songs (most melodic and comical with occassional noisy/experimental moments) out of sound effects, electronically modified and multitracked instruments and vocal sounds, early electronic sound filters, and occasional weird French vocals (often recited backwards for maximum strangeness!), foreshadowing the Moog-based work of Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley and daring to merge avant garde and kitsch in a way that would only be fully explored years later.

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