LES PROGRES II-APRES LE RETOUR, CD, 1998, FRANCE

Purchased many years back on the basis of an Igor Wakhevitch name-check in it's description (for those not in the know, one of the most devastating experimental musicians of the last century), this dazzling and regretfully obscure French electroacoustic project does indeed (at least in parts) touch upon a surreal electronic malevolence that could easily be confused with that of Wakhevitch, which is no small feat, as precious few others have ever graced this very specific and unsettling territory. At other points, Luc Ferrari Presque Rien-style location recordings co-mingle with bursts of percussion and Renaissance instruments like Cor Anglais and Hautbois in a way strongly reminiscent of Univers Zero circa "The Hard Quest". A work of remarkable depth and psychotropic potency.

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