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GUIOT, Dominique - L'Univers De La Mer (reissue) - Vinyl (140 gram vinyl LP)
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information Dominique GUIOT L'Univers De La Mer (reissue)(140 gram vinyl LP) WRWTFWW Switzerland
Cat: WRWTFWW 038. Rel: 4 Feb 19
Experimental/Electronic
Side 1 - Track 1. Wind Surf Ballad Side 1 - Track 2. La Danse Des Meduses Side 1 - Track 3. Une Ballade Pour Une Goelette Side 1 - Track 4. Les Deux Poissons Side 1 - Track 5. Ballet Amoureux Des Dauphins Side 1 - Track 6. Les Pingouins S'Amusent Side 2 - Track 1. Destination Inconnue Side 2 - Track 2. Iceberg En Voyage Side 2 - Track 3. L'Univers De La Mer Side 2 - Track 4. Alerte En Mer Side 2 - Track 5. Les Emigrants De La Mer Side 2 - Track 6. A La Decouverte D'Une Amphore
For their latest well-judged reissue, the Swiss diggers behind WRWTFWW Records have turned their attention to the vast catalogue of French library music composer Dominique Guiot. "L'Univers De La Mer" first surfaced in 1979 and is widely regarded as the musician's finest body of work. Musically, it's pleasingly out-there and intoxicating, with Guiot speeding through short-but-sweet tracks that variously touch on krautrock, early electronic music, Berlin School ambient, Tangerine Dream style synthesizer soundscapes, art rock, bizarre updates of old "modal" style Tudor numbers and the kind of spiraling electronic compositions that would make Jean-Michel Jarre blush.