Liquid awarded by the Charles Cros Academy
Liquid
Charles Cros Academie

Tuesday Novembre 28th 2000, The Charles Cros Academye revelead its 53rd Palmarès of Disc Prizes of 2000.

Liquid has been awarded by the Prize of the Adami.

Alan Wilder was here , and the frenchviolation team also .

 

L'académie Charles Cros
Created in 1947 by a group of critics and specialists ,The Charles-Cros Académie is composed of 'experts who are in relation with music, culture and sound recording.
Its Goal is to promote culture and most of all music , as well as its reproduction and its diffusion on the differents medias or those who allow the development of new technologies, multimedia, Internet and interactivity.
The 53rd palmarès has given 23 Great Prizes in global in many different categories, Liquid getting the Great prize of Dic (Grand Prix du Disque) , in the category of Prix de l'Adami.
The Music awarded by the Academy comes from many different sources. It comes from classic which has been forgotten and reused in a genious way by a passionated artist , and also to a multimedia CDROM which show the musical univers of a new compositor , getting by Prizes in honorem to famous artists for their whole career.

 

The 53rd Great Prizes / Rewards
the Ceremony was held at the Maison of Radio France, under the direction of the President of the french Republic , directed this year by Jean-Marie Cavada.
Alan, Hepzibah and Paris arrived just a few moments before the beginning of the ceremony, along with Jean-Christophe Mercier (from Labels / Mute France). They all seem happy and in a ery good shape , they say hello to some known people in the crowd and sit down in the crowd just behind us .

Some speech from french celebrities and internationals ( a Henri Salvador full of energy and some known classical musicans ) go through the ceremony, which was first supposed to alst only one hour but will last more than 2 hours in fact ! . Some people having really long speeches making some of the presentations really long .

 

Alan Wilder receives an award for Liquid
Liquid is the last album to be awarded . Recoil is mentionned by Alain Fantapié (President of the Academy) as a creator of a music between gregorian songs and techno (he says though that Recoil isn't techno at all !...). He also points out the originality and the high quality of Alan Wilder's work and calls Alan to receive his award .
Alan is followed on stage by d'Eric Hauswald of the Adami. He discovered Liquid at the beginning of the selection . He appreciated quickly the style of the album and insisted on the academy to reward Liquid of the award of the Academy .

Alan receives his award from the hands of Alain Fantapié and says a few words:

"The last award of the Grand Prix du Disque 2000, is given to Recoil for Liquid. I think Alan Wilder is here, Recoil.
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and Eric Hauswald is going to present this album because lot of us here are , as i said, more used to Gregorian songs than techno -even though it's not techno - , don't know much about Recoil, then it's a good way to know more about it ."

real audio of the speech

Eric Hauswald :
"I'd like to be brief and relelvant . Alan Wilder is the soul of the band called Recoil. Alan Wilder has come especially from England today .
I simply wanted to say that the Charles Cros
Academy awards a musician who knew how to take the best of modern technologies without losing a human feeling to his music.
His last album - Liquid, makes us enter into deep and dense universe ,warm and cold at the same time , where contemporary sounds are merged in a wonderfull way with amazing voices so beautifull.

While listening to this album , we feel like we're listening to a movie soundtrack , and not only songs following each other , as good as they can be.
Far away from the
formated show business productions , Alan Wilder who's here among us show us a music which is rich and innovator and who's already a music of the 21st century.
Finally, the artistic realisation that comes out from this album , puts Liquid as one of the best and most wonderfull production of the moment , it's also the quality of the sound that we want to greet , because it's an important part of an artwork , at the same level as composition , lyrics and and arrangements.
thank you ."

real audio of the speech

Alan Wilder :
"Just a very quick thank you to the Academy and to say that it does restore your faith sometimes when you feel like giving up and becoming a builder or something. I just want to say thank you to the collaborators on the record who helped me realize some of my experiments. They are; Diamanda Galas and spoken word artists Nicole Blackman, Samantha Coerbell and Rosa Torras. And I'd especially like to say thank you to my wife, who 'cracks the whip' as they say, and helps me keep going. Thank you very much."
Transcription made by Sharon.
corrected by Alan Wilder

real audio of the speech

Pictures of the event
Pictures of the event

real audio of the speech

The speech that presents Liquid and the speech of Alan ( real audio 330 Ko)

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Thanks to Tibo for the transcription and the photos , Luc for the scans and sound, and Sharon for the transcriptions also.

The palmarès of the 53rd Grands Prix of the Charles Cros Academy

The Charles Cros academy website