[CP 111 CD] Henri Chopin; Audiopoems, Audiopoems, Poésie Sonore

August 2025; highly welcome refresh & réédition of this long unavailable mid-period CP classic, adding to Chopin's original 1971 Tangent-label debut "Audiopoems" the following LPs: 1983's Radiotaxi - Vibrazioni Del Sonoro -series banger... "Audiopoems" (as issued by Edizioni Lotta Poetica & Studio Morra in 1983 & featuring collaborations with the imprints' Isaia "Sarenco" Mabellini & Franco Verdi) & the Sotiaux-produced"Poésie Sonore" as issued by the all-too-familiar Igloo later the same year (featuring easily one of my all-time favorite LP covers c/o Alain Géronnez, chopping up a preproduction copy via film-transfer in one of the ultimate fourth-wall breaking moves, rivaling Hipgnosis!) This set now captures all of Chopin's long-form output from the vinyl era in one handy place! Sound Poetry or not, this is (now) easily the best collection of Early Improvised Tape Music extant!

Right here is a Creelproduction of Henri Chopin’s first - and, inarguably, best - album, initially readied by the UK-based Tangent imprint - alongside canonic sides by the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Ann(e)a Lockwood’s “The Glass World” - in 1971, issuing three pieces of his particular strain of throat-infected Sound-Poetry, mangled in-situ via tape machine in 1969. 

No other recording captures Henri’s work at it’s most unfettered. The epic, side-length “Pluralité 1.1.1.1.” offers a determined rise from tape-slown whale-song into freaked-out tape-echo murmur into a feedback hailstorm & finally into a multi-faceted sound-on-sound masterstroke that rates as one of his finest moments & is pretty much the blueprint from everything from the various Schimpfluch factions’ transgressions to the mulch of Dylan Nyoukis & C. Spencer Yeh.