September 13, 2006

BROCOLI FESTIVAL

The first Brocoli festival will take place on October 5th, 8pm, at the following venue in Paris : l'OPA, 5 rue Biscornet, Paris 12ème (metro station: Bastille).
Entrance is free.
The following fellow musicians will play :

  • Rainier Lericolais - clavier bien tempéré no.1 (laptop)
  • Minizza - ode to Terrence Malick - Aquarium - spoken words, field recordings, saxophone, harp, electronics
  • Michel Chion - exceptionnal appearance of the guru of musique concrète, for the release of Tu
  • David Fenech - prepared guitar & voice
  • Pierre-Yves Macé - creation of the first version of his Passages - tapes, laptop, ipod
  • Daniel Palomo Vinuesa and Pascal Dalmasso - saxophone/guitar & computers duo, to celebrate the release of L'homme approximatif (Radio France/Signatures)
  • Discipline - drones & atmospheric guitars - industrial ambient
Thanks to Eric Perier & constellation INFACT.

September 13, 2006

NEW RELEASE ON BROCOLI ON OCTOBER 9th

Michel Chion is one of the most famous French musique concrète composer, among Pierre Henry, Bernard Parmegiani or Luc Ferrari to name a few. Brocoli is proud to release his concrete melodrama TU, based both on the spoken scenes of Mozart's The Magic Flute and on verses from French poet Robert Desnos.
Composed in 1977 and reworked in 1996, it is now available for the first time on record for Mozart Year 2006!

The CD comes with a beautiful packaging on cardboard, which includes the full libretto on tracing paper.
OUT ON OCTOBER 9th 2006.

Preorder it NOW from Brocoli's webstore, and receive it on your mailbox on the day of its release:

  • preorder the CD for 15€ postage included;
  • or preorder the digital edition for 10€ : you'll get the complete album in pristine CD quality (AAC LOSSLESS, FLAC or MP3 320kbs formats, just ask) as a file archive the day of its release

Payment is secure.

Download the teaser (2 minutes, in French).
Michel Chion talks about the making of Tu (23 minutes, in French)

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