Patrick Vian ~ France

Bruits et Temps Analogues (1976)

---1/26/07

Bruits et Temps Analogues is pretty much an eclectic brew, in the French tradition, with Berlin School sequencer based electronic ostensibly being the album's main premise. No doubt Richard Pinhas (Heldon) was an influence here, with the mix of Moog synthesizers and electric guitars. But Bruits et Temps Analogues is more upbeat, and perhaps even more world music influenced. Vian previously headed up the much more polarizing, and politically charged, Red Noise from a few years before. There's very little of that angst and radicalism present here. 

---4/22/25

Georges Granier's marimba plays a major role in the world music influence. And Bernard Lavialle (Ame Son, Nyl) gives us our Richard Pinhas moments. The further we get away from the 70s the more I gravitate to the analog sounds of the pioneering electronic albums. It was one of the very first underground styles of music for me to get into during the middle 80s, and the more I hear, the more I appreciate the artists who tread down this path. Naive, perhaps without purpose, yet emphatic all the same.

Ownership: 1976 Egg (LP)

1988 (first acquired); 1996; 1/26/07 (review); 9/11/13 (new entry); 4/22/25 (update)