Description
Alga Marghen, Italy 2010
Relationship Studies” LP includes 2 seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine, or “Relationship Study No. 1” (1967) and the generally titled “Electronic” from the same year.
Sounds in motion like race cars, motor cycles, war planes, rocket ships excited Charlemagne sonic imagination when we was still a young teenager. Then came the experience of listening to the electronic music of Tod Dockstader, Alwyn Nikolais, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaffer, Xenakis and “Poeme Electronique” by Edgar Varese. Immediately fascinated Charlemagne Palestine bought a primitive electronic equipment and started to experiment, creating his original electronicesque language.
