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01. Octavian Nemescu - Seacula-seculorum
02. Octavian Nemescu - Parallel Destinies
03. Octavian Nemescu - Concentric
04. Octavian Nemescu - Sonatu(h)r
05. Octavian Nemescu - A T
06. Octavian Nemescu - Ulysse
07. Octavian Nemescu - Le Roi va mourir
ARTIST
TITLE
Passages... a travers le Temps
FORMAT
3LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
METAPHON 024LP METAPHON 024LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/9/2025

One of Romania's most important composers in the last half-century, Octavian Nemescu (1940-2020) is among the few that were not "part of the system", managing to survive and compose in a world that felt more and more "empty", fragile, confused and scarce in prophecies. The mystical approach to his art defines Octavian Nemescu as an essentialist who believed in the power of archetypes in which he found inspiration. His pieces always start from an idea that has spiritual, cosmogonic implications and involves synthesizers, samples from nature and the "ison" (drone) inherent in the spectral current. When defining "meta music" or "imaginary music", Nemescu was an advocate of looking from above, from the top of the mountain. Silence is very important in his work in order to keep the sound flowing and to reflect on the sound from before, as a space, as a pause for thinking. Nemescu put forward another kind of music: a song that has not yet surfaced through human voice, any musical instrument, orchestra or other electro-acoustic means: an intimate, interior, introverted inner sound that focuses on the individual and the imagination. Imaginary music is a reaction, it comes in contrast to the spectacular, it is anti-show. For him, music had a ritualistic function, it served no cultural purpose. This 3LP set collects eight pieces for variable ensemble, tape and electronics, composed between 1968 and 2015, selected together with Erica Nemescu, who also mastered the tracks. Most tracks have been previously released on different CD's but never before on vinyl.