Various Artists - Gymnoscapes: Nature Lands, Aerial, Reverie (1992)

A nicely strange charity shop find, offering over two hours of ambient, electronic library music on a French label.  That's pretty much all I know for sure about this collection - the year of release above might not be accurate, as I could only find one obscure reference to it online, with no dates on the discs or liner notes.

In terms of artists, there's a "Record conception" credit to a Christian Bonnaeu on the back, but I'm taking that to mean that he compiled/produced it - fairly sure the individual names after each track, eg B. Bergé, Ph. Davies, Ph. Jogwell etc are meant to be the recording artists.  There's definitely a Philippe Jogwell on discogs who gets credited for a new age/electronic album on the same label as that Michel Saugy disc.

Anyway, listening-wise this is a really enjoyable experience.  If you fancy a couple of hours of floaty, relaxing ambience, it does the job, and occasionally strays into more abstract territory, as on the gaseous drift of Cosmos Land on Disc 1 which otherwise concentrates on short pieces.  Recommended applications (from the notes) for that one: "Cosmos exploration". 

Disc 2 is even better, with longer tracks, including Abyss, a five-part "sythesiser symphony with guitar and percussion" from one JM Wizenne.  He might well be Jean-Michel Wizenne, who does get credited with some soundtrack work and cites guitar influences from "Jeff Beck, Blackmore and Van Halen" - that could fit the Wizenne tracks here which dominate Disc 2.  They're a pleasingly odd mix of widdly lead guitar and ambient backdrop, like someone surreptitiously taping Joe Satriani's late-night noodles from the next room.

Disc 1 link
Disc 2 link
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