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When the bunch of filmakers known as The Pattern Group (Roland Moreau, Georges Perdriaud and Jean Talansier) did 'Libra', their second movie, in 1973 they just thought a good idea to use bits from Pink Floyd's 'Ummagumma' and 'Atom Heart Mother' to create its soundtrack. The movie, a 90 minutes film with no dialogue, depicts the story of four youngsters living in communion with nature, an idyllic life that is drastically changed when a a US satellite crashes in the area and attracts the attention of journalists and TV crews that come to destroy the peace of the place. Obviously, the Pink Floyd bits had been used without permission, and The Pattern Group saw they needed an original sountrack if they wanted the film released without legal trouble. They approached Jean-Michel Jarre who declined the invitation to create the new soundtrack, but suggested instead that it was Philippe Besombes who did it. Besombes was a sound explorer who walked similar paths as other avantgardist young musicians from his generation such as Richard Pinhas (Heldon), Paul Putti (Pôle), Jean Louis Rizet or Jean-Michel Jarre himself (way before he became the famed wizard of commercial synth music we know today). Besombes was requested to produce a soundtrack "in the style" of those Pink Floyd tracks used. However he came up with that and more. Always aiming to find new ways of musical expression, he produced music that fitted perfectly in what the filmakers needed but which was totally of his own. Surrounded by a cast of friends he locked himself in the basement of his girlfrend's father (who even ended up providing the funds for the project to reach an end!) and taped the amazing sounds that conform the 'Libra' soundtrack, a landmark in french electronic tripping music which gives us synthesizer and even sitar sounds as good as what you can hear in more commercially successful LPs like Pink Floyd's 'Ummagumma' or 'Obscured By Clouds'. Besombes would later form in 1977 the space rock group Hydravion, and is also known as the producer of several other Pôle/Tapioca releases such as Melody or Henri Roger. The soundtrack was recorded in 1974, and it was released a a vinyl LP on the Pôle label in 1975. It has since then become a highly sought after LP among collectors of electronic music worldwide, and gets its first vinyl reissue on Wah Wah in a deluxe edition that features a lavish 12" sized six page booklet with plenty of photographies from the era and information on the making off of Libra in texts written by Philippe Besombes himself and Raul G. Pratginests. 500 copies limited edition."
