Montreal-based producer Marc Leclair‘s beloved 2005 album Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes, recorded under his own name rather than his better-known Akufen alias, is receiving its first-ever vinyl pressing courtesy of LA-based imprint ISC Hi-Fi Selects — available now at Inverted Audio Record Store.
Originally issued in on CD via Mutek, Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes (Music for Three Pregnant Women) now returns as a double LP, pressed in Detroit at Archer Record Pressing — the historic plant behind deep-groove classics from Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and J Dilla. The album will also appear on streaming for the first time via Community Music Group.
Those who know Leclair through his intricate micro-sampling work on Perlon, Force Inc. and Trapez may find the tone here surprising. Where Akufen operated in the hyper-detailed rhythmic cut-up, Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes moves slowly and atmospherically — a meditation on transformation and the quiet arithmetic of new life. The album grew from a personal moment: three of Leclair’s closest friends became pregnant simultaneously, prompting a project that would eventually span nearly seven years of composition. Across its 72 minutes, sounds layer and branch with the patience of a long meditation on time, growth and emergence.
More than twenty years after it first quietly circulated, the record sounds unhurried and singular — and finally has the physical format it always deserved.
‘Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes’ is scheduled for release on 24th April via ISC Hi-Fi Selects. Listen and buy from Inverted Audio Record Store.
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