André Almuro - Artaud, Genet, Lorca, Cocteau, Larronde, Almuro - Poésie de Cruauté
Vinyl LP (Download), 1962
Disques Mouloudji
A mysterious album that I downloaded from god knows where, but what a cool piece of vinyl. I’m on the hunt for it. The little I know is that André Almuro worked in radio, and was or is (he’s still alive at 82) a figure in the French Music Conncréte world. He met a 15 year old Pierre Clémenti and worked together making films, and recording Clémenti’s poetry. Eventually in the 40’s he hooked up with the legendary Pierre Schaeffer and joined his Radio Télévision Française.
Poésie de Cruauté is a fascinating piece of work. Here Almuro makes music behind the narration of various poems by Artaud, Lorca, Genet, Cocteau and Olivier Larronde, who I don’t know at all. The poems are read by Jean Bollery and Pierre Frilay, with a certain amount of vocal effects for their voices. A great album, and without a doubt I am going to look for Almuro’s films. Fascinating.
Also of great interest is that this album was released on the great Left-Bank (Vian pal) Mouloudji’s record label.
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