Alga Marghen present these astonishing archival works by Eliane Radigue, originally released along with Feedback Works as a double pack, and now available as standalone LP.

Listening to Radigue’s music is a transformative, humbling experience. Her singular sound is best described by Michel Chion as “infinitely discreet… next to which all other music seems to be tugging at one’s sleeve for attention.” Working since the late ’50s under the tutelage of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry at RTF’s Studio d’essai – the birthplace of musique concrète – she created a body of work whose profound simplicity has only begun to be widely appreciated over the last decade or so. Vice – Versa. Etc., originally conceived as a sound installation, was created using multiple tape machines, creating feedback loops and altering their pitch and duration to coax out quavering microtonal harmonics and ultrasound frequencies not usually perceived at their normal setting.

As practically anyone who knows (and probably adores) her music will testify, there’s really very little else out there that compares to the elemental tranquility and hallucinatory effect of her works. Add the fact this composition was recently stereo synthesised by Emmanuel Holterbach, and you have a breathtaking document of some of the most intense and involving early electronic works you’ll likely ever hear.