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Sharp double CD set containing four of Schwarz's attractive 70s tape works. 'Erda' (1971) is a 27 minute piece in eight sections ranging thematically from 'Grillons' ('evocation of world of the insects'), '54 Oiseaux' ('songs of stereotyped birds such that give them the generators of studio 54' (HELLO!!!)), and 'Klook'/'In Memoriam' (both tributes to jazz greats; Kenny Clarke and John Coltrane respectively). 'Symphonie' (1974) is a filmic 24 minute work using orchestral and flute timbres along with subtle tape effects and re-iterative motions. 'Surroundings' (1978) is an extended 53 minute piece that invokes 9 discrete locations (Broadway in Manhattan, Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a cable car in San Francisco, etc...). It features Charles Austin on saxophones and flute and Joe Gallivan (of Love Cry Want fame) on percussion and Moog synthesizer. Lastly (and certainly not leastly), 'Sonances' (1971), which is based around the figures and materials of the Baschet brothers sculptures adorning public and private grounds around the GRM center. "The sheets of the Baschet instruments which haunted the studios of Research centre always fascinated me. I constituted a basic material to start from these sheets. The part proposes a voyage in this worrying world which goes from pointing out that of heart, with the fine metal rattling evoking the noise of the sea against the rocks". Schwarz is perhaps the least visible/most mysterious (alternatingly the most prolific in the CD age) INA composer, alas we've finally been given an insight to his early output. Absolutely necessary." -- Hrvatski. 2CDs for the price of one.
