ALAIN PIERRE – O Sidarta – LP – Vinyl

LABEL: Finders Keepers

CAT NO: FKR107LP

BARCODE: 5060099507502

Side A: O Sidarta

Side B: Notions De Physique Interieure

ALAIN PIERRE O Sidarta

LP Vinyl

Within the elusive confines of this film awaits an album that defies categorisation by a musician who in a different time and space would be revered amongst some of the most important exponents of progressive rock, dark ambient, Krautrock and pioneering synthesiser composition not to mention sound design and art-house film scores.

As a protg of Franois Bayle and Luc Ferrari who had studied classical music before immersing himself in found-sound manipulation and oscillators, Alain Pierre quickly became an enthusiastic go-to man for sound sculpture and technical studio proficiency in Belgiums small film industry.

To the many generations of dedicated fans of the visual work of Philippe Druillet it might seem virtually impossible to adequately score the alien, futurist landscapes of the man who many called the space architect (on account of his space age reductions of Gothic cathedrals, Art Nouveau and Indian temples) but once you have heard the sonic reactions of Alain Pierre on this first-ever dedicated Druillet documentary, Sidarta, complete with his own equivalent sound palette, it will be difficult to hear Druillets world via any other composer.

Despite Druillets truly incredible record sleeve designs for projects like cosmic disco ensemble Black Sun, concept albums such asAttentionby Jean-Pierre Mirouze (composer ofLe Mariage Collectif), Parisian metal bands like Sortilge, gatefold portraits of Jimi Hendrix, later period albums by William Sheller and most relevantly on albums by Igor Wakhvitch (Docteur Faust,1971) as well as separate releases by both Richard Pinhas and Georges Grnblatt (both from the cosmic prog outfit Heldon), it is fair to say that this criminally unreleased album by Alain Pierre would conjure up the closest synergy between sound and vision that either artist would come close to.

Backed with a rare recording of a one-off concert at the Universit libre de Bruxelles in October 1976 under its original titleNotions de physique intrieure(Notions Of Interior Physics) revealing a very similar set of movements and soundscapes found on Sidarta.

Licenced with the full cooperation of composer Alain Pierre and remastered from the original master tapes.