Portrait d'un Glacier (Alpes 2173m)

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Lionel Marchetti has blended field recordings with electronic drones and other sounds to create an incredibly dramatic recording. Recorded on the Glacier de Tré-la tête on Mont-Blanc, in France, at an altitude of 2173 meters we hear low rumbles, creaking, water splashing and sounds of footsteps crunching the icy surface all appearing out of the silence. Voices in the distance...a small propeller rescue plane overhead?

Portrait d'un Glacier is a Series I release which puts it in Ground Faults quiet category. While most of the CD is relatively quiet, there are moments at the middle of the CD where things get a little nerve wracking. It's very cold, dark and dramatic.

This is one of those CDs that is great to drift asleep to in a darkened room only to be awaken by the sudden "events" that occasionally happen.

Portrait d'un Glacier (Alpes 2173m)
Average customer rating:

Subpar material from both artist and label.

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Portrait d'un Glacier (Alpes 2173m)

Manufacturer: Ground Fault Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Q716
Release Date: 2001-08-25

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Portrait d'un Glacier

Album Description

Lionel Marchetti has blended field recordings with electronic drones and other sounds to create an incredibly dramatic recording. Recorded on the Glacier de Tré-la tête on Mont-Blanc, in France, at an altitude of 2173 meters we hear low rumbles, creaking, water splashing and sounds of footsteps crunching the icy surface all appearing out of the silence. Voices in the distance...a small propeller rescue plane overhead?

This is one of those CDs that is great to drift asleep to in a darkened room only to be awaken by the sudden "events" that occasionally happen.

Customer Reviews:

Subpar material from both artist and label........2004-03-30

Lionel Marchetti, Portrait d'un Glacier (Alpes 2173m) (Ground Fault, 2001)

Another series I release from Ground Fault, this one a musique concrete-y/field recording type of release. Unfortunately, it's not as easy to recommend as much of the other stuff Ground Fault has released in this vein.

Clocking in at only twenty-eight minutes and change, Portrait d'un Glacier is exceptionally minimal, even for a Ground Fault Series I release; every once in a while, something audible pops up, but for the most part you have to have your system all the way cranked. (So when something loud DOES pop up you're scared out of your seat). And what's here isn't terribly interesting; there is very little in the way of sonic drift. Quite different from the other stuff of Marchetti's I've heard, and not nearly as interesting.

It pains me to say I can't recommend something from the usually excellent Ground Fault label, but this one felt like Marchetti wasn't trying all that hard. **

What? You can get quality musique concrete on Amazon?!.......2001-11-21