[CP 043 CD] Bruno Menny; Cosmographie, Le Petit Tigre Qui Sifflait Comme Un Merle +

June 2026; fourth offering in this current (heat) wave of rééditions featuring a newly fine-tooth-combed remaster of the canonic Bruno Menny Ariston LP, augmented considerably through the addition of the "Le Petit Tigre Qui Sifflait Comme Un Merle" book/10" set (written by Martine Mora, narrated by Christian Alers, and with Menny's unmistakeable foley/concrète & psych-flute ruminations throughout) along with the song he co-wrote for the Hungarian folk-psych troupe Kolinda, "Csodafiu Szarvas" from their second Menny-produced LP for Disques Hexagone, featuring a hell of a synth-burst undercarriage that erupts in the closing minutes. Unavailable for aeons, glad to have this available once again!

Once again, i’m reminded that one can twist & turn, uncovering rocks looking for stray Paleozoic lifeforms one’s whole life and still never find 0.01% of what’s out there. To my knowledge, the early 70s platter replicated here is the sole LP by one Bruno Menny; he’s mainly known for his endless CV of engineering, arrangement, and production credits for people/groups like Pierre Bensusan, Emmanuelle Parrenin (whose 1977 "Maison Rose" is essentially a collaboration w/ Menny), Mouloudji - yes, the voice on the Jean Genet / André Almuro "Un Condamne a Mort" LP - Cohelmec Ensemble, La Bamboche, Michel Portal, Benoît Widemann, Steve Potts, and little-known but fairly fantastic french Experimental Folk groups La Chiffone & Malicorne - ad infinitum (currently there are 190 engineering credits on Discogs!) once again working that magic combination of Early Electronic / Electro-Acoustic Composition and Space themes.

This is pretty much your premium François Bayle-lineage bleep fest with the occasional detour into “Music” - the closing section of “Orbite Autour de la Planete 3” a is a bit too lyrical for my tastes; but then again’s it’s so perfectly microtonal that it almost works! - what does it for me is the side-long “Cosmos”; starting with its downright angry-sounding Synths - almost on par with something off of “Mise en Musique du Corticalart de Roger Lafosse” - before the space-winds and some super-cool Echoplexed / detuned electric guitar spazz cuts through the haze, leaving a trail of ghost-voices in its wake.

Just so good, early / obscure, beautiful cover featuring some kind of Neon Space Gel - completely apropos of the music - “Out” electric guitar; everything about it’s gold.