Igor Wakhevitch

French pianist/composer of Russian origin known for highly experimental electronic albums such as Logos (1970), Docteur Faust (1971) and Hathor (1974); credited with music for Salvador Dalí's Être Dieu (1974) in the reviewed account.

Plays keyboards and synthesizers; produced landmark experimental electronic records in the early 1970s; Docteur Faust is frequently singled out in reviews as a singular, magnetic work.

The reviews celebrate Igor Wakhevitch's Docteur Faust as a magnetic, spectral, and unsettling work from the early 1970s. The writer frames the record against a backdrop of modern distracted listening habits. Wakhevitch is described as a French pianist/composer of Russian origin with notable experimental electronic albums Logos (1970) and Hathor (1974).

For:Fans of experimental/electronic/avant-garde 1970s music; collectors of rare records; listeners who like unusual, cinematic synth works.