Turbulence

Harmonia Mundi, the French label based in Arles, released the album in 1987 in its series “Musique française d'aujourd'hui”, as an LP (HMC 5186), a cassette (HMC 405186) and a CD with booklet (HMC 905186). Kohler, Discogs and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (℗ 1987) date the release to 1987, Heckel to 1992. It was recorded in 1986 by Gilbert Préneron at Studio S.E.I.; the photos are by Carole Bellaiche, coordination was by Pierre Vatteone, and the liner notes were written by Francis Marmande, the jazz critic of the Paris daily Le Monde. According to Discogs, Pepl plays only on “Pastor” (5:29), with Portal on bass clarinet, Jean-François Jenny-Clark on double bass and Daniel Humair on drums; Dave Liebman does not appear on this album. The Penguin Guide to Jazz lists “Turbulence” in its 1996 edition in the entry on Michel Portal, with Pepl in the line-up.

In libraries: The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris, France's national library, holds all three editions and lists Pepl as a performer: the LP under shelfmark SD 30-87226 (catalogue record), the cassette under SM-37499 (catalogue record) and the CD under SDC 12-7588 and PDCE-1918 (3) (catalogue record). The CD (NUMAV-527240) and the cassette (NUMAV-389863) have been digitised and can be heard in Gallica intra muros, the digital collection that the BnF makes available only in its reading rooms in Paris (Bibliothèque de recherche, with a reader's card).