Roger Baudet

• 2X VINYL GATEFOLD EDITION

Described by Swiss press as an “inventive genius marked by total unpredictability,” Roger Baudet’s music has preserved its freshness and spontaneity. Provoking feelings of surprise, anxiety and subjugation, he ends up bewitching you completely through his bizarre non-conformity.

The oddity of the sounds is a choice of heterogeneity: the works gathered, although coming from one person, have little to do with each other. Forming a mosaic that provides a fragmented vision of atmospheres without apparent links, his music multiplies diverse rhythms and combinations, rejecting any principle of hierarchy in the musicality of the moment.

The decorative music was composed as the soundtrack for theatre and ballet performances, documentaries, short films and exhibitions of paintings – a context that inevitably shines through the twenty-two pieces. Despite these classical settings, the music had a forward-facing, futuristic cadence – a precursor to the electronic genres that would later become techno or trance.

This compilation from the past century is a collage of ornaments made out of sounds; stripped down, yet undoubtedly imbued with sensitivity, with hints of classical training, all suitable for contemplation.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. 1986 Where are you...
• A2. 1978 Sérénade d'un autre Monde
• A3. 1982 Légére complainte
• A4. 1982 Complainte à deux

• SIDE B
• B1. 1991 Tensus (Ceremonial)
• B2. 1991 Anhamete (Ceremonial)
• B3. 1991 Amdai (Ceremonial)
• B4. 1991 Sacuo (Ceremonial)

• SIDE C
• C1. 1982 Excitation se´quence´e
• C2. 1982 Sautillement déjanté
• C3. 1982 Brut de décoffrage
• C4. 1982 Mal à l'aise
• C5. 1989 Mov' in
• C6. 1976 Musique concréte
• C7. 1976 Musique concréte
• C8. 1981 Ne fait que passer

• SIDE D
• D1. 1983 Comme une distance
• D2. 1983 Comme une distance 2
• D3. 1983 Comme une distance 3
• D4. 1983 Comme une distance 4
• DIGITAL BONUS
• D5. 1992 A` chacun son histoire
• D6. 1976 Saphir