Schlingen-Blängen (1979). Charlemange Palestine /at one's pleasure and will/

Image via WikipediaCharlemagne Palestine to play Schlingen-Blängen in LA in March:

In a rare return visit to Los Angeles, where he lived in the early 1970s, he'll pull out all the stops on the world's largest church pipe organ. Always accompanied by his family of stuffed animals, Palestine has gained worldwide notoriety for his transcendent and earth-shaking performances, which create the illusion of dozens of organists playing simultaneously. His pure and animistic music creates trance-like drones that must be heard live to be fully appreciated.

I listened to the recording over the holidays and it remains memorable and provocative in a minimal and intense way. lala:

Charlemagne Palestine: Schling...

Ingram Marshall on Palestine's aesthetics:

Once, many years ago, he and I were listening to a beautiful, sensuous orchestral work of Debussy, and after a particularly ravishing passage he said to me, "If only it would stand still and stay that way for a long time." In a way, that is what he has been trying to do, turn music into a physical entity that can be experienced like a painting, as something to be contemplated at one's pleasure and will.

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prior schlingen-blängen posts on aworks: initial exposure. beguiling organ. available on emusic