Karel Appel
Musique Barbare
Baarn, Holland: WVB, 1963
12” vinyl LP
Edition size unknown
Originally composed for a documentary about Appel directed by filmmaker Jan Vrijman, this three-track LP features musique concrete recorded at the Insituut voor Sonologie in the Netherlands, with the help of composer Frits Weiland. Electric organ and various percussive sounds (distorted kettle drums perhaps most notably) are subjected to tape-speed manipulation.
The first edition featured a thick gatefold cover and a 26-page book, and some copies were accompanied by a lithograph, with instructions that “It is strictly forbidden to sell this litho separately from the album Musique Barbare."
Depending on condition, copies with the lithograph sell for upwards of a thousand dollars.
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