Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Jephan de Villiers
Eric La Casa

Voyage en Arbonie

(Collection Mémoires, CM004) (France) (CD)

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  2. (31:38)
  3. (10:47)

Radiophonic essay (in French): a three-part portrait of sculptor Jephan de Villiers by Eric La Casa

Texts: Jacques Brosse, Emmanuel Driant, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henri Ronse, and Jephan de Villiers
voice: René Farabet and Eric La Casa
Music:
Catherine Brisset (crystal Baschet): "Avant l'Envol" [excerpt], "Petit Chariot Ailé"
Eric La Casa: "Fragments de Mémoire Parts 1 and 2"

Recorded in the forest of Soignes and in the home/studio of Jephan de Villiers in Jolymont, Brussels
Produced between September and November 1996
Mixed by Gilles Pezerat
First broadcast by France Culture, l'Atelier de Création Radiophonique, January 5, 1997
CD version mastered in July 2000
Photos by Jean-Dominique Burton and Eric La Casa

Released in 2004
Originally released in 2001 on Collections Mémoires as a limited edition of 200