33 RPM 12 inch vinyl record in luxury cloth-backed sleeve (31 x
32 cms.), including an original color lithograph by Karel Appel, signed
in the stone, (sometimes erroneously described as a pencil-signature).
The record, with music composed and performed by Appel [1-Paysage
électronique (11:41), 2-Poème Barbare (3:30), 3-Le Cavalier Blanc
(12:42)] is packed in a clothbacked sleeve which contains a 30 page book
with over 30 (double-page) photographs in colour and black/white by Ed
van der Elsken and a text in English by Jan Vrijman.
Karel Appel's legendary piece of musique concrete was recorded in 1963
at the Insituut voor Sonologie in the Netherlands with the collaboration
of music composer Frits Weiland. Originally composed for a documentary
on himself directed by filmmaker Jan Vrijman, Musique barbare is a
powerful mixture of electric organ fumblings, full-on riots of distorted
kettle drum, and assorted percussion-room filigrees, assembled into an
extremely edit-heavy suite with tape-speed manipulation.