Various Artists - Prends Le Temps D'ecouter - Tape Music, Sound Experiments and Free Folk Songs by Children from Freinet Classes 1962-1982

Relying on the experiments and writings of its founder, the educationist Celestin
Freinet, this consortium of teachers is about to give empirical evidence proving
that another approach to music in school can be fruitful, distancing itself from
government directives. This compilation presents a selection of recordings from
the thirty or so records released by the CEL between 1962 and 1982, partly
deviating these sound archives from their original function to offer them to a new
audience.
The other tracks have all been selected from the record series that the ICEM
released in the 1970s. On the title track, the young Frederic Chanu starts singing a
bewildering ode to joy on a melancholy tone verging on detachment, making
heavy clanks all the while. As for "The Ocean," "C'etait l'histoire" and other
excerpts fromL'Enfant de la liberte, they belong in the register of intimate folk,
with songs recorded in secondary school (with twelve-to-eighteen-year-old kids),
originally written as an exercise in French rather than in music.