Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Jean-Claude Eloy-Shanti,2LP,1979/2006(2cdr unofficial release),France

Jean-Claude Eloy is a French composer, born in 1938. He studied at the Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music, where he won First Prizes in Piano, Chamber Music, Counterpoint, Ondes Martenot, and studied composition with Darius Milhaud. He attended summer courses at Darmstadt (Pousseur, Scherchen, Messiaen, Boulez, Stockhausen) and was a student in composition in Pierre Boulez’ master class at the Music Academy in Basel (1961-1963).
Works by Jean-Claude Eloy have been performed all over the world. They have been conducted by Pierre Boulez, Ernest Bour, Michael Guilen, Bruno Maderna, Diego Masson, Michel Tabachnik, Arthur Weisberg and others ... He has lived in the United States (professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the sixties), Germany (invited by the WDR studios in Cologne, the Technische Universität in Berlin, guest artist at the Berliner Künstlerprogramm), Holland, Japan (where he collaborated with NHK and the National Theater of Japan, among other activities). He participates regularly in numerous international festivals, principally in Europe, but also in Asia, the United States, Canada and Latin America as sound-projectionist for his electro-acoustic works and with the soloists closely associated with his compositions : Fatima Miranda (vocalist), Yumi Nara (soprano), Michael Ranta (percussionist), Junko Ueda (Shômyô singer and Satsuma-Biwa player), Kôshin Ebihara and Kôjun Arai (Buddhist monk singers), Mayumi Miyata (Shô player), etc...
“ ... A solitary composer who has managed one of the most significant syntheses of 20th century music (between electronic and acoustic music, but also between Western and non-European traditions), Eloy tackles and convincingly solves an essential problem of our time : the relationship to the other, to the stranger, to what is different, not so much as an object of curiosity, admiration or submission, but as a vitalizing source of creative inspiration”.
“The New Grove Dictionary of Music”, 1998, Dr. Ivanka Stoïanova(translated from the French byMeredith Escudier

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Jean-Claude Eloy sounds great! A lot of fans of this blog will really dig him.

Many thanks, as always!

-OTM

cico said...

awesome.....!!!!!!

thanx a lot!

Our Eyes Are Gone said...

Any chance you have "gaku-no michi" by Jean-Claude Eloy?!?!? Would be an excellent upload!

Sheng said...

This blog rules!! BTW, could you please re-up this post? Thanks so much.

Anonymous said...

looking for Michael Ranta album recorded at Conny Plank's studio in Germany - MU V / MU VI - released on Asian Sound Records

Anonymous said...

could this be reposted?

-0- said...

Re-up would be most appreciated!

armeur H said...

please ! could you re-up Eloy's Shanti ?

Anonymous said...

hi there. heard a track from this earlier on the radio. could you please upload this one again? thank you!

Anonymous said...

Hi. Could you upload this again if you get the time? Thank you!