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Philippe Besombes
12+ albums
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Philippe Besombes is an underground but now cult French artist from the 1970s avantgarde-prog scene. After a student doctoral degree to become a chemist he turned to music and was partly formed by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. He rapidly showed an interest in electronic synthesizers such as the AKS, MiniMoog, Korg. He produced three major albums under his own name, and one with Jean-Louis Rizet called "Pôle" in 1975. The album Pôle (not to be confused with the two albums by the collective Pôle, of which Rizet was a member, and possibly Besombes as well) features synthesizer orchestration and shimmering, spacious, nebulous electronic textures. The same year Besombes recorded the soundtrack of the movie "Libra". The music delivers an hybridisation of electroacoustic experimentations, bizarre ambient soundscapes and jazzy-folkish ingredients. In 1976 Philippe Besombes had opened his own recording studio with Rizet. The album "Ceci est Cela" of the same year is a collection of experimental electronic pieces more in the genre of Pierre Henry and Stockhausen. Philippe Besombes is also known for his group "Hydravion" and for being one of the founders (with Paul Putti and his wife) of the obscure label "Pôle -Tapioca" which published different works from Magma, Gong, Pôle and Potemkine. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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albums
Pôle
Anthology 1975-1979
Libra (Un film du groupe Pattern)
Libra
Cesi Est Cela
La Guerre Des Animaux
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Space Oddities
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Willkommen im Weltraum – Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come
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Strain Crack & Break: Volume One (France)
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Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word
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Alexis Le-Tan & Jess Present: Space Oddities - A Compilation Of Rare European Library Grooves From 1977 - 1984
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Caribou: The Longest Mixtape