Prélude au sommeil

Jean-Jacques Perrey - Prélude au sommeil
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1958 Rank: #14
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1958 / Release Date
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UltimateLifeFrm
80

This was from 1958?!?!?!?

Prélude au Sommeil (meaning Prelude to Sleep) is the first commercial project from French composer Jean-Jacques Perry, released in 1958, originally under a fake institutional name titled "Institut Dormiphone".

It was described by Perry as being an "auditory recipe" to induce sleep in insomniacs, initially to be used in mental hospitals & institutions to aid rest. It consists of 2 side-long tracks that were composed on a keyboard ... read more

TreyLikesBands
100

There’s absolutely nothing comparable to the feeling of weightlessness.

Some time ago, I was watching a few works of Swiss filmmaker Georges Schwizgebel. During the 20th century, he created these brief and beautiful vignettes of short films. Cascades of color wash across the screen as abstract shapes take on appearances of trees, rooms, animals, and humanoids. The tangible feelings of his films are akin to that of dream sequences or lost memories, an endless waking daydream that ... read more

Gustavstone07
70

God FUCKING damn it, Jean! You were meant to make some music that could make mental hospital patients go to sleep, you weren't told to invent THREE different music genres! Fucking idiot. You're fired.

Y'know, I've never really listened to much music from before the 60s. I've heard, like, three albums, and maybe a couple of big songs from the period. @Suma thankfully enlightened me with the knowledge of this record, to expose my plebeian ears to more music from this 1950s.

First off, what the ... read more

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Track List

1Prelude au sommeil
25:29
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2Prelude au sommeil
25:20
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Total Length: 50 minutes
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Added on: September 2, 2017