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Very Last Copies. Collector Edition. Silver Procédé Héliophore sleeve, made with the original Prospective 21e Siècle covers (the legendary series devoted to electroacoustic and avant-garde music curated by François Bayle and Pierre Henry begun in 1967). Limited to 100 copies. Previously unavailable and mind-blowing film scores by the late French composer and electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani. Both drawn up for motion pictures by director Pierre Kast, 1965’s La Brûlure De Mille Soleils was far ahead of their time. The way that Parmegiani combines the eeriness of György Ligeti, the brave new world of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the warped beauty of Olivier Messiaen with pioneering electroacoustic techniques makes for arresting listening
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