Delirium in Hi Fi [Import]

Andre Popp | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 30, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Basta Records
• ASIN: B000001YCD
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,242 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. La Cumparsita

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For many years André Popp was best known for cowriting "Love Is Blue." But that claim to fame (if you can call it that) was only the tip of the iceberg for this most unclassifiable of composers. Popp was a sonic explorer who has been said to be France's answer to Juan Esquivel; but while both men did share a humor-filled vision of music, Popp was even more experimental in his manipulation of sounds. He could take as a starting point a tune by, say, Charles Trenet, record various parts at various speeds, interject sound effects (look for the sneeze), and it would still be a brilliantly accessible song--albeit one that would reveal its complexity only upon close listening. Long out of print, this 1957 recording remains a marvel of witty ingenuity. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Product Description

2009 collection. Clever, bold, endowed with a wealth of ideas that border on the miraculous; Andre Popp placed himself at the head of the list of young avant-garde musicians with the suddenness of a thunderbolt. A madly inventive arranger/conductor Andr‚ employed state-of-the-art studio craft to create his wacky masterpieces. This collection .includes two of the greatest albums of the Space Age Pop era, the groundbreaking Delirium in Hi-Fi and Popped, both here in their entirety. Featuring Popp's own instrumental number 'Les Lavandieres Du Portugal', which became a huge international hit along with hallucinatory re-workings of standards like 'La Paloma' and 'Beer Barrel Polka' make for some seriously interesting listening. 24 tracks. Jasmine. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THE WAY I REMEMBERED IT, July 7, 2008

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David A. Woodbury "DamnYankee" (Lincoln, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delirium in Hi Fi (Audio CD)

My father bought the 33 1/3 LP of Delirium in Hi-Fi in the early 1960s, and that record entertained my younger sisters and me for hours, whenever we could persuade him to play it. By the time I finished high school in 1969, I never thought I'd hear these pieces again, but one day recently I googled it anyway. I wasn't sure at first whether it was the same album - the LP had a different cover (reproduced in the CD insert), and the LP said it was by Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band. I don't remember it being credited to Andre Popp on the LP. But they're the same, as the insert explains, and it is just the way I remember it. In fact, while it has been nearly 40 years since I've heard it, I could recall and anticipate every nuance. Memory is such a remarkable phenomenon!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's delirious., July 12, 2005

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delirium in Hi Fi (Audio CD)

This is a very strange album. It features a lot of imaginative sonic "experiments". Such as instruments recorded at half speed or double speed, and then played back at normal speed. Also vocals or instruments recorded backwards and then played forwards. It's all way ahead of it's time, and it should be of interest to anyone who likes unusual music.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars joy from a wacky frenchie, August 15, 2002

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marti mcginnis (DogTrot Hill, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delirium in Hi Fi (Audio CD)

The contents of this disc will let you revel in the joys of your own insane music taste over and over again as you listen to the delirious confections of this little collection. And you'll split your gut when you hear the "gnignis sdrawkcab" (backwards singing) segment, or my name isn't itraM.