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Pôle
12+ albums
electronicexperimentalProgressive Electronicpsychedelickrautrock
about
Pôle started as an album, Kotrill, and a Pôle Records label run by Paul Putti and his wife in the mid 1970s. Putti is the only consistent member of Pôle on their two albums; he doesn't appear on all tracks but he does take credit for arrangements and production. A second LP, Inside The Dream, quickly followed the first. There are only two Pôle project releases, after which Putti focused on the Pôle Records label, releasing some influential experimental electronic music by many French musicians between 1975-1977. The confusion resulting from the project and the label having the same name helped create the myth that they were a band or a formal collective, when it was just a guy funding it all who recognized he'd built a recognizable brand around a few studio projects and the label. The name was also prominently on covers of other releases on the label, making it appear that releases by Henri Roger and Besombes - Rizet are Pôle 'band' projects when it's better to look at Pôle as a label branding in that context. Rizet only appears on some tracks on one of two Pôle 'band' releases. Philippe Besombes has stated that the name was used without consent from him or Jean-Louis Rizet on their double LP titled Pôle, purely for marketing purposes by the label. One way to look at Pôle is as a project concept along the lines of a Hector Zazou project, or Hal Wilner or Bill Laswell hooking up players for a specific release, and the label as based around a loose unofficial collective of
