Archive release

Musique Concrète

Various · 1969 · Vinyl-LP · US · CE 31025

Compositions realized in the studios of Groupe de Recherches Musicales, O.R.T.F., Paris, France. Includes double-sided 8.5" x 11" insert with notes on the pieces and production data: "Recorded with DOLBY S/N STRETCHER / STEREO may also be played MONO" "Anthology and Notes Compiled and Edited / By ILBAN MIMAROGLU" Labels include: "Candide / Vox" logos as two pennants, "Vox" tucked under end of "Candide" "CE 31025" "Side 1 / (VS 3231) / 20:12 minutes / Made in U.S.A." [or] "Side 2 / (VS 3232) / 25:16 minutes / Made in U.S.A." [and] "UNIVERSAL USE -- STEREO can be played MONO" Some deadwax etchings are very faint, but includes "12-29-9" (likely 29-December, 1969 as date of mastering), and initials (identities not yet found) probably for mastering facility and engineer: "IRC Au" "ARC" is clear on side A but appears more like "HPC" on side B. As "ARC" it would indicate [l512061] as the pressing facility. Dating: The majority of the first sixty Candide "CE 310xx" series issues are consistently dated 1966-1971, clustering at 1968-1969. There are two 1975 exceptions, likely reissues or misdated. Almost all were of "avant-garde" contemporary repertoire. Releases continued to at least CE 31118 (dated 1980). These facts supports the interpretation that THIS release was the first produced and released in the US. But the UK-produced and US-marketed "VOX Candide Series" release as "STGBY 639" also falls into 1969-1971.