[CP 280 CD] Roland Hollinger; Bardo Thodol, Prométhée... Aujourd'Hui

January 2023; starting the year (Creel Pone's 18th!) with a bang, here's a timely compendium of both of French Composer & Multi-Instrumentalist Roland Hollinger's Scorpios-label outings (see [CP 210-211 CD] for the other Scorpios heavy) featuring a crack band of traditional folk & experimental musicians (Quebecois superstar Michel Madore makes an appearance on the second, Olivier Drouin, François Laizeau, & Jacques Vandeville are all over both) subjected to "Electroacoustic means" then arranged into gorgeously spare assemblages of Electronic Drone and wandering minimal patternage.  Recalling such formative work as Regrelh's "Cants Dels Trobadors: « La Douceur D'Un Son Nouvel »" (see [CP 209 CD]), the flowing guitar flourish of Luc Ferrari's "Éphémère", the synth drone of Anselm Rogmans & Gregor Cürten's "Planes" LP or even the transformative instrumental elements of Jacques Lejeune's "Petite Suite", these are an incredible pair of quite singular forays into merging the