Patrice Sciortino ‎– Chronoradial (1970, LP, France)

Patrice Armand Yves Marie Sciortino is a French composer/ musician, born 26 July 1922 in Paris. Although classically trained as a pianist, and composer of some ballets and orchestral works, he's mostly known for his more experimental music (after an internship at the GRM) as issued on library LPs since 1967 which often featured prepared instruments, percussion and electronic manipulations / sound projection.

In the world of sound library and production music French Avant-garde composer Patrice Sciortino is both unique and universal. His astounding late 1960s and early 1970s recordings for the prestigious Musique Pour L’Image and PSI labels receive their first serious reissue and reappraisal here. Cellos growl and twist with an air evocative of Bernard Hermann, choirs hiss and howl like Alessandro Alessandroni’s ‘I Cantori Moderni’ and the whole thing is as dexterous and playful as Ennio Morricone at his very best. But really Sciortino is his own beast, percussive and jarring one moment, soothing yet unsettling the next.