Most but I don't think all of Pierre Henry's Philips albums, plus a bunch of much more recent
material, has been reissued by Decca France in a 10CD box, "Odyssee." It can be had for about $4 per
disc from Amazon 3rd-party sellers, particularly ImportCDs. Unfortunately, the booklet is in French
only, and I couldn't find an English translation to download anywhere online.
There is an interesting article about Henry as "the original sampling artist" here:
http://facsimilemagazine.com/2009/05/
on the right hand side, top of page. There are sound examples from several of the Philips albums.
I wouldn't be surprised if snippets of Henry's early 60's material is embedded in sound effects all
over TV and movies.
-- Tom Fine
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