ARTHUR PETRONIO-S/T, LP, 1979, SWITZERLAND

Surrealist sound poetry experimentation of a very high order, this Swiss born and Belgian residing fellow was a contemporary of pioneering sound poet Henri Chopin and this sole extant recording of his explorations into morphing the voice electronically and/or ensnaring them in musique concrete-like treatments is some truly gripping stuff. Some of what's heard here is unnerving enough to presage Steve Stapleton's attack on Nurse With Wound recordings like Homotopy To Marie, while elsewhere, expect the ghosts of Pierre Henry's breaths and doors, whale song, nagging fragments of percussion, smeary tape speed gibberish and excitedly mumbling alter cockers.

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