WOEBOT

I've been wanting to post these for ages! Not terribly much to say about them. Did you know that WOEBOT probably gets linked more because of the images I put up than for any other reason? I think that's quite nice really. I put up bigger and better sleeve shots than anyone else, and (sticks out chest) I'm proud of it.

Er, what should I say about these? The greater proportion of these I picked up in Paris. This series of LPs are without a doubt the best collection of Concrete (Avant-Garde music even?) available. The production is richer and more beautiful than their predecessors The Silver Records. There's a couple I'd still like to get yet, Jean Schwarz's "Symphonie" (which Gwen promised to get me...but failed miserably) and now Ivo Malec's "Sigma".

The Bayle is exquisite, it may seem offensively pedestrian of me to say, but it's almost ambient in its leanings. Parmegiani's "Dedans Dehors" is my personal favourite, perhaps less impressive than "De Natura Sonorum" but ravishing and fascinating, it's one of the only Avant-Garde records you could imagine playing to small children and them being engaged by it. The Mion was the first one I had, off Gwen in 1996, I subsequently tracked down and read Henri Michaux's book of the same name which I bought a translation of from George at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. George's daughter Sylvia Beach had translated it and we had a little chat about that. Chion's "Requiem" is supposed to be the square root of the Nurse With Wound records, Michel Chion is an interesting character, he wrote a very good book about David Lynch.