A part of the CAPAC Portrait Musical 7″ series, this release is a mix of excerpts from electro-acoustic works by Ménard. The clip I've included here, "Conte Vert", contains a burst of energy early in the track that leaves me wanting more, and brings to mind his contemporary, Bernard Bonnier, and his Casse-Tête album. This is an excerpt from his longer piece, "Contes Electroniques", a collaborative effort along with Serge Rustin. The liner notes are quite descriptive, and at the time of this recording (1981-83), Ménard was at work on this: "His current project involves developing a micro-computer system of musical composition, synchronized with body movement, of which a prototype was made in Paris between 1981 and 1983 with the help of Serge Rustin".
"Conte Vert"
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Filed under: 45's and 7's, Avant / Experimental
As you already know, there are a lot of great electronic / avant material released through the CAPAC Musical Portrait series. I have about 10-15. This was one I didn’t know about, though, and it’s great! Bernard Bonnier has a CAPAC 7″ as well.
ah, that’s a good one guy…got a dozen of this ace face series and around 50 of the stock design-y ones…
wonder how many were made altogether???
His brother wrote DON QUIXOTE.
I did some research on the series a while ago and they did around 300 of these.
There are also CAPAC cassettes. I have a small pile and two or three of them were very good.
Though, the 300 is just an estimate and could be way off. When they were doing stock-covers I think they were pressing “English” and “French” versions, so there could be duplicates.
[...] sensibilities that serve him well. Unfortunately, very few of his pieces have made it onto vinyl. CAPAC did release a few of his compositions as part of its Musical Portrait series but that was close to [...]