Published
Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 13:01
- Rarities from the French musician's 40-plus year career will land in November.
RVNG Intl. will release Ariel Kalma's An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972-1979) on November 18th.
Beginning with its reissue of Harold Grosskopf's Synthesist, RVNG has demonstrated a knack for unearthing musicians whose electronic journeys were ahead of their times. In 2014 they've put out archival releases from K. Leimer and Craig Leon. The Kalma reissue takes a different path towards similar territory.
Kalma's story is the stuff of beat fiction. The French saxophonist toured with successful rock bands, eventually making it to India in 1972, where the country's musical and spiritual atmosphere changed his approach. He would go on to learn circular breathing from a snake charmer, a skill which meshed well with his primitive delay unit, constructed out of two ReVox tape machines. He would eventually relocate to New York to mingle with the Arica collective (director Alejandro Jodorowsky was a follower), and his travels would lead to chance meetings with Don Cherry and Terry Riley.
His music bears the influence of both of those musicians, integrating an early interest in free jazz, the modal stasis of Indian raga and the just intonation of La Monte Young. The compilation draws from limited cassette releases as well as Kalma's own archives and comes with extensive liner notes by New York writer Jesse Jarnow.
Check out a video clip for opening track "Almora Sunrise" below.
Tracklist
01. Almora Sunrise
02. Ecstasy Musical Mind Yoga
03. Echorgan
04. Sunset Inside
05. Chase Me Now
06. Enuej Elleiv
07. Sister Echo
08. Les Mots De Tous Les Jours (Rêves Etranges)
09. Rainy Day
10. What Would You Say
11. Les Etoiles Sont Allumées
12. Voltage Controlled Wave
13. Montparnasse Morocco
14. Head Noises
15. Asalam Yamarek
16. Love And Dream
17. Yogini Breath
RVNG Intl. will release Ariel Kalma's An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972-1979) on November 18th, 2014.