Claude Vasori - Cocktail d’Images

Posted on March 18, 2006 by plkbryn

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Musique Pour l'Image was a small library label based out of Paris founded by pianist Robert Vigier in 1968. The label is popular with library fiends due to the fantanstic cover art and, more importantly, the high quality music.

Almost all of the MPI albums I've seen feature black and white covers, and many, such as this one, have really bugged out collages. The cover here actually does a pretty good job of capturing the dreamy themes of the album, which appear to be romance, glamour, and a bit of mystery.

Although the music is very jazzy (jazz was Vasori's muse), it possesses that other worldly and experimental spirit which confirms you're listening to a library recording: jazz solos featuring Andean recorder, waltzes for harp and flamenco guitar, and other twisted takes on the ordinary that leave you scratching your head. Unlike a lot of other library albums this one is good from start to finish too. Recommended.

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7 Comments to “Claude Vasori - Cocktail d’Images”

Daniel on March 18th, 2006 @ 12:08 pm

How’s Chris doin?

plkbryn on March 18th, 2006 @ 12:38 pm

sssshhhhh. . .hahaha

redtaperecorder on April 10th, 2006 @ 3:09 pm

where the hell can one find this stuff??

dr.lloyd on June 2nd, 2006 @ 2:13 am

Sigh. I had this, but hound blood and romantic entanglements have caused me international house moves recently and it went missing. Ain’t that a bitch!?
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monone on September 6th, 2006 @ 3:24 pm

here :
http://ring.cdandlp.com/monone

:)

nadaespecial on November 25th, 2006 @ 11:10 am

oh my god, they are selling it for 78€ waaay tooo expensive, where can I get his stuff???

soul-fiend on January 26th, 2007 @ 2:10 pm

http://waxidermy.com/2006/06/06/j-matthews-electronic-music/

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