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JEAN-CLAUDE ELOY 9 Titles


Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #

ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Electro-Anahata	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 019-20CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Electro-Anâhata (1986-1994). Fully electro-acoustic version of "Anâhata" realized on Jean-Claude Eloy's personal computer from the original electro-acoustic recordings of this work. Electro-acoustic works of a contemplative nature. Electro-acoustic parts alone of Âhata-Anâhata (struck sound -- unstruck sound) including a new unreleased part. Electronic music studios where the original "Anâhata" was produced (1984-86): Studio of the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music, Amsterdam (1984 and 1986), the entire production (pre-recorded material processing, new material generation, premixing) and all final mixing processes; Tokyo-Gakuso studio, Tokyo (1983): for the Shô and Ô-Shô (traditional mouth organs from Japan) sampling with Mayumi Miyata. Conny's Studio, Neuenkirchen, near Cologne (1984) with Asian Sound and Michael W. Ranta: metal percussion instrument sampling, including Bonshôs (Buddhist temple bells from Japan) sampling.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Etats-Limites ou les cris de Petra	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 023CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Borderlines or Petra's Shouts. Songs for the other half of the sky N°VII" (2013). After some reissue or first editions of old compositions, here's a brand-new composition from Jean-Claude Eloy. Made mostly with voice, bells and synthetic sounds this piece works like an electroacoustic lightning.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Galaxies Full-Electro	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 021CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Galaxies (Warsaw version), electro-acoustic alone. Fully electro-acoustic version of "Anâhata/Galaxies" realized on the composer's personal computer from the original electro-acoustic recordings of this work. Jean-Claude Eloy: "In 1994 I had (for purely practical reasons) to remove these big electro-acoustic parts making up the two 'Galaxies' works from the piece they were connected with until then: Part III of my Anâhata cycle, entitled Nimîlana-Unmîlana ('that which awakens -- that which slumbers'). An electro-acoustic work integrating instrumental acoustic parts that required the performance of a Shô player from Japan. Those electro-acoustic parts were substantial enough to warrant a new configuration ensuring their stand-alone nature, independent of whether a performer was available or not. Therefore I used (apart from the two 'Galaxies') a set of particular sounds that I had generated during that production (all of them resulting from Shô sampled sound processing and modulations) entitled 'sons d'infinitude' ('sounds of indefiniteness'). These sustained sounds were very fixed, quite contemplative, almost motionless or maintained through short fluctuations that were more or less regular. They were five of them altogether. Four of them were grouped together into a consistent set and occurred after the first Galaxy, before the Shô solo. I had used them to compose a sequence called 'Awakening,' which formed the first Shô appearance in the version realized for the Donaueschingen Festival in 1990. The fifth one took place at the end of the second 'Galaxy' and was used to support the conclusion played on the Ô-Shô. In this purely electro-acoustic version the first four 'sons d'infinitude' came quite naturally as a 'bridge' between both Galaxies. The fifth sound kept its conclusive place, making it bigger and using it as a genuine 'extension sound' that could be infinite, with no limit!"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	L'anneau des sept lumieres	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 022CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 The Ring of the Seven Lights (Metametal, long version, 1994-95). Revision and new master (2013). Seven continuous variations from a single Bonshô sample (Buddhist temple traditional bell from Japan), a tribute to Inayat and Vilayat Khan. Jean-Claude Eloy: "I created and partially realized it in 1994-95 during this conversion of 'Anâhata' into an electro-acoustic version alone. I first made a short version out of it which integrated into 'Electro-Anâhata' and became the fourth station within the first part (around 'Âhata-Anâhata'). It was an entirely new part that had never been realized during the final mixing of the original Anâhata cycle."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Le minuit de la foi	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 024-25CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/5/2026 Le minuit de la foi ("The midnight of the faith") (2014) for electronic and concrete sounds, around selected sentences by Edith Stein recorded by German actress Gisela Claudius. New work from Jean-Claude Eloy, a long piece under the power of expanded sounds and sacred words. Le minuit de la foi is a double album, each CD of which forms a stand-alone entity. Each CD can therefore be listened to separately. However, you do need to listen to the full album for it to become meaningful through its complementary balances, and to grasp its very essence.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	A l'approche du feu meditant	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 028-29CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 A l'approche du feu meditant ("Approaching the meditative flame"), originally composed in 1983. Theater Music for a sound and visual ceremonial. A tribute to the goddess of the light, the sun, and the stars. For 27 instrumentalists from the Gagaku Orchestra (divided in three separate ensembles), two choruses of Buddhist monk singers (Shômyo singing traditionnal school -- Tendai and Shingon sects -- divided in four separated ensembles, with four monk singer soloist voices), six percussionists, five Bugaku dancers. Extracts of this piece were published by Harmonia Mundi on a double vinyl in 1985.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Faisceaux-Diffractions - Macles - Boucle et Sequence	CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 030CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 A series of instrumental pieces documenting the years before the switch to the long electroacoustic compositions more characteristic of the composer. Faisceaux-Diffractions (1970) for 28 instrumentalists including a Hammond organ, and two electric guitars. Recording of the world premiere, on October 30, 1970, in Washington D.C. (USA) by the New York Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. "The instrumental ensemble is subdivided into three strongly isomorphic orchestras, allowing the treatment in the space of similar musical structures. This tone-color isomorphism allows sometimes to leave 'floating' the synchronization between the three orchestras, the conductor being able to combine the 'tiling' of the orchestras, following a large number of possibilities, but within strictly defined temporal proportions.". Macles (1966) extracts of the music of the film La Religieuse (The Nun) by Jacques Rivette. For various groups of instruments including a solo Zarb and a Cymbalum. Ensemble Musique Vivante under the conducting of Boris de Vinogradov. Zarb solo played by Jean-Pierre Drouet. "At the time of the realization of this work, in 1966, I was a teacher at the University of Berkeley, and I was trying to find a theory to unify the modal music (repetitive, with uses of fixed harmonic fields and use of notes poles, etc.) to atonal chromatic music, serial or not (variational, fluctuating, ornamented, etc.): this by directly organizing the structural blocks, and not by deducing them from a serie." Boucle et Sequence (1968) for 19 instrumentalists. Very short musical sequences for the film l'Amour fou (Mad love) by Jacques Rivette. "These two very short musics were written in 1968 at the request of Jacques Rivette for his film l'Amour Fou (Mad love), which he was shooting (Sequence is the music of the very last scene of the film -- in its original version -- when Jean-Pierre Kalfon leaves walking alone in the streets of Paris). In hindsight, they constitute a sort of 'premonition' of the writing and aesthetics, which will then be affirmed, in 1970 and 1971, with Faisceaux-Diffractions and Kâmakalâ (use of repetitive loops; mass heterophony; intervals filled in active aggregates; etc.)"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Gaia-Songs	2CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 026-27CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 Gaia-Songs (1992, revision 2015). For a soprano (or mezzo-soprano) solo and an actress voice (Sprechgesang technique) with electro-acoustic (fixed sounds). Anne-Lisa Nathan, mezzo-soprano. Helena Rüegg, actress voice. "First there's this relation between sung voices and spoken voices with regard to the electro-acoustic parts. The sung voice is quite often separated from the electro-acoustical parts accompanying it. They may sometimes overlap each other but rather briefly. Those parts often highlight octave ratios, fifth ratios, third-ratios, etc. Hence more harmonious and consonant acoustic ratios. By contrast the spoken voice fully covers the electro-acoustic parts dedicated to it and made out of more complex material. Hence more dissonant acoustic ratios turned towards noises spectrums." JC-Eloy from the liner notes.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELOY, JEAN-CLAUDE	Reminiscences	4CD	HORS TERRITOIRES	HT 031-34CD
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/22/2026 The four pieces that compose Réminiscences, a masterpiece if ever there was one, create the equivalent of a human day, from dawn to night, from call to cry, from meditation to revolt, through the clash of the sounds of human and natural activities. Simply unique and grandiose. Jean-Claude Eloy (1938) is a French composer with a classical background who moved away from the structures and models that had carried him until then (models imposed on contemporary music through various institutional and official hegemonies) to create, from the early 1970s onwards, long electroacoustic frescoes, vast poems of sounds and noises between Western and Eastern traditions, the main aim of which is to liberate the sound imagination. 5-panel digipak. Includes 24-page booklet.