New remastered version ! New bonus tracks !
New remastered CD edition of “Tazartès’ Transports”, Ghédalia Tazartès second LP, presented here with new bonus tracks. Also included are “Assassins 1 to 4” (previously issued as “Les danseurs de la pluie” miniCD), as well as “Elie” featuring Ghédalia in duo with his daughter (previously issued on “Tazartès’ Transports” 1997 first CD edition).
“Tazartès’ Transports” is the incredible second album by autodidact and outsider composer Tazartès. Originally released on vinyl in 1980, it probably represents the most original example of the artist’s poetical and personal approach to sound organization. The tracks for “Tazartès’ Transports” were recorded in 1977 at Ghédalia’s own studio in Paris, strafing stream-of-conscious between rippling electro rhythms to outer-national singing styles, collaged field recordings and musique concrete, to chants, tape loops and exotic atmospheres with a perpetual sense of drift and magical imagination. We’re spellbound from the first to last, through the deeply evocative peal of church bells and swirling synthetic textures in track 2, via humid sci-fi scenes and alien avian chatter on track 5 and the lost zones of the closing stages.
Also included on this CD are four “Assassins” tracks previously issued as “Les danseurs de la pluie”. The first two tracks were recorded around the “Eclipse totale” sessions in 1977 and consist of banking guitar feedback, unhinged hollers, and an unsettling piece of children’s screams looped against droning synth tones and electronic pulses. The other two were recorded in 2005. “Assassin 3” is a mystical piece of ecstatic ululations and plangent electric guitar riffs, while part 4 feels more opulent, plush synth pads set against strange, strafing distortion, rhythmic exhortations and percussions with a surreal cinematic quality. Yet again, Ghédalia provides us with some of the most compelling, weirdly life-affirming music we’ve heard in ages.
The disc concludes with “Elie”, a charming piano piece performed in duo with the composer’s young daughter.