PASCAL COMELADE - Improperis - Compositions et enregistrements magnétiques (1984- 2024) - 6LP - Collector's Vinyl Box Set [SEP 26]

6LP - Limited Edition Collector's 140g Black Vinyl Box Set. Limited & numbered to 500 copies for the world. 

This ultimate 6LP Boxset presents the works of Pascal Comelade from 1984 to 2024 and his 40 years producing instrumental music. Each vinyl has been thought of as an album in itself , with its own identity, that could be listened to as it is.

6 x Black 140grs Vinyl each one in spineless sleeve, heavyweight cardboard slipcase/custom numbered at the back, insert-photo individually signed by the artist, marketing sticker. Limited & numbered to 500 copies for the world. Pascal Comelade, the visionary Catalan composer, unveils his latest sonic meditation with Improperis - Compositions et enregistrements, a remarkable work that celebrates four decades of uncompromising instrumental music since his emergence in 1984. This extraordinary collection demonstrates how Comelade's distinctive aesthetic - built around prepared instruments, toy pianos, and found objects - has only deepened over forty years of continuous exploration. Working within the signature minimalist palette he has perfected since the 1980s, the composer constructs intimate sonic environments that feel both ancient and startlingly contemporary.

Drawing from the same wellspring that nourished Erik Satie's revolutionary simplicity and Nino Rota's melodic genius, Comelade's approach to Improperis reveals deep connections to both minimalism and cinematic composition. The album's title, referencing the reproaches sung during Holy Week, hints at spiritual dimensions while maintaining Comelade's characteristically secular approach - echoing the contemplative atmospheres found in Ennio Morricone's most introspective film scores and the repetitive structures that connect him to the lineage of Richard Pinhas and Heldon. Each composition unfolds with the deliberate patience that has defined his work across four decades, creating music that exists in a temporal zone entirely its own. The influence of his notable collaborators - Robert Wyatt, PJ Harvey, Faust, and Jaki Liebezeit from Can - can be felt throughout, yet Comelade transforms these musical dialogues into something uniquely Mediterranean and deeply personal, maintaining the experimental spirit that connects him to the rock underground and the precision of contemporary instrumental music.

Improperis represents both a summation of Comelade's forty-year journey and a bold new statement. These sonic sculptures demonstrate how the composer has continually reshaped our understanding of duration and musical space, pushing further into experimental territory while maintaining the distinctly poetic sensibility that places him alongside film composers and minimalist pioneers. His use of toy instruments and unconventional sound sources creates a world that is both nostalgic and futuristic, intimate and cinematic. For those who have followed Comelade's evolution from his earliest experimental works influenced by electronic music and progressive rock to his current mastery of acoustic minimalism, this feels like both natural culmination and new beginning. The work confirms his position as one of contemporary music's most important voices - a composer who has spent four decades proving that infinite possibilities exist within the most constrained musical materials.

A work of profound beauty and conceptual rigour, Improperis stands as both celebration of Pascal Comelade's remarkable career and one of the year's most essential experimental releases.

Tracklist: 

Side A
1. "Fragments (Extraits)"
2. "Park Güell"
3. "Disque Raye?"
4. "Valse de l'aiguille creuse"
5. "4 Rroses Pour Marie"
6. "La Catedral d'Escuradents"
7. "Your Labios As Tulips"
8. "Souvenirs de Vernet Les Bains"

Side B
1. "Arthur Cravan Was A Flor Fina"
2. "The Skatalan Logicofobism"
3. "Sardana Dels Desemparats"
4. "A Glass Of Gaz"
5. "Les Places De Gracia (1)"
6. "Les Places De Gracia (2)"
7. "Patafisiskal Polska"

Side C
1. "I Put A Barbara Steele On You"
2. "Chanson De Charme Pour Faux-nez"
3. "The Lollobrigidada Fox-Trot"
4. "Third Eye Of A Cubist Guitar"
5. "Le Fakir De La Chapelle"
6. "On Se L'hegel En Enfer"
7. "Un Train Direct Pour Charenton"
8. "Love Too Soon"

Side D
1. "L'argot Du Bruit"
2. "To The Last Of Imaginary Solutions"
3. "Toti Al Soler" 
4. "Back To Schizo"

Side E
1. "To Be Dammit Ornette To Be"
2. "The Blank Invasion Of Schizofonics Bikinis"
3. "Sardana Dels Desemparats"
4. "Sense El Resso Del Dring"
5. "Contre Le Style"
6. "A Figueres"

Side F
1. "The Hallucinogenic Espontex Sinfonia"
2. "La Societat Del Piano-Obstacle"
3. "Gegene"
4. "Petite Escena Nocturna"
5. "A Farrutx"
6. "Le Soir Du Grand Soir"
7. "Souviens-Toi De Ces Douces Soirees"

Side G
1. "Stranger In Paradigm"
2. "La Vedette Del Molino"
3. "Jopo De Pojo Not Dead"
4. "The Indian Of The Group"
5. "Il Luna-Park Galactico"
6. "Don't Touch My Blue Oyster Shoes"
7. "Sans les mains ! (Zappambarretina)"

Side H
1. "El Misteri Del Triangle Del Vermut"
2. "Two Maniaco-Depressive Beatnicks Squabbling Over A Jane Russell Mozzarela's Bikini"
3. "Vals Burlesco"
4. "Flan Sin Nata Inzenight"
5. "Despintura (A) Fonica"
6. "Europe Change Bad"

Side I
1. "El Bolero Del Raval"
2. "O Dancing Del Gran Fumisme"
3. "Hydropathes Marchant Sur Les Os"
4. "Spinoza Was A Soul Garagist"
5. "El Pianista Del Antifaz (Born In Candolle)"
6. "Portrait De L'artiste Avec Des Lunettes Pour Voir Les Femmes A Poil"
7. "La Bella Dorita"

Side J
1. "Deviationist Muzak"
2. "Dancing Le Momo"
3. "Roll Over Fuzmanchu"
4. "Stigmates De La Ligne Crade"
5. "Evaporisme Sonor"
6. "L'horizon Perdu Du Cornet A Gidouille" 
7. "La Filosofia Del Plat Combinat"

Side K
1. "Coucher De Soleil Sur L'Adriatique"
2. "Unicazzz"
3. "Des Rails En Mou De Veau"
4. "Elevation De Marie-Madeleine"
5. "No Sympathy For Symphony"
6. "Sardana Mecanica"
7. "Ha Passat Un Angel"

Side L
1. "Skin Saxo Derivato"
2. "Apparition Du Visage De Bela Lugosi Sur Une Tranche De Salami"
3. "Musique Hypertrophique Des Remontoirs"
4. "Cimetiere De La Photographie"
5. "Alzina Muntanera"