(Electronic) VA - Patch Work Music - 1995, MP3, 192 kbps (dedication to "Back To The Universe")

Published in 1995 by the Musea Parallèle label, the "Patch Work Music - Musiques Electroniques" compilation includes extracts from works of several of the most interesting French composers of today's electronic music. One can find Bertrand LOREAU, Olivier BRIAND, Jean Christophe ALLIER, Christian GERARD and Lionel PALIERNE. Most of these artists know each other, have worked together and have a lot of respect for its counterpart: this release is first and foremost intended as the sequel of a solid friendship. This disc also wants to prove that in a specifical music genre, every musician has the ability to put its own mark: the patchwork effect. From electronic music to contemporary avantgarde, it also includes new-age, German School (TANGERINE DREAM, Klaus SCHULZE...) or ambient. Diversified, interesting and full of emotion...

The word "patch" calls to mind the technique used on the old analogue synthesizers, on which the different modules had to be connected, from one to the other by cables.
The main idea of 'Patchwork' was to compile different music from different musicians, with the aim of making an homogeneous CD, showing that the different friends, with their own personalities were working in the same musical area.

Christian Gérard, Olivier Briand, Jean-Christophe Allier, Lionel Palierne, et Bertrand Loreau are 5 musicians who have been friends for a long time. Before the recording of the CD, they had formed the team of KS-mag