Prologue & Epilogue
Para One - Spectre • Machines Of Loving Grace [WRWTFWW054 CHE 2021 24-Bit FLAC] Para One is French electronic composer and film maker Jean-Baptiste de Laubier's alter-ego, Spectre is his fifth full album, released only as a double clear half-speed mastered vinyl set this year. The sleeve has an air of familiarity about it, I am thinking maybe some seventies prog-rock album - I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe somebody can? Modern electronica albums usually turn out to be lone bedroom recordings, you'll be pleased to know this album does not fit that category. De Laubier used an array of skilled musicians throughout for this sonic amalgamation of electronic dreamscapes, lush cinematics, gamelan percussion and choral drama which sits somewhere between John Carpenter and Ryuichi Sakamoto, or maybe between The Orb and Steve Reich. The vocal parts were supplied by the lovely ladies of Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares. This pressing, by Optimal Media is superb, even thou...