Jean Michel Jarre
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Tony L
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Pierre Henry is great, I’ve far too little (just this Polyphonies box), but it is very cool stuff. Jarre is just too rooted in pop melody to get anywhere close IMHO. Henry is all about texture and space to my mind. I really like it.
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I've got the Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul / Le Voyage CD - great stuff (even for a bloke from Leicester).
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Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
He was a pupil of Pierre Schaeffer and his early pieces like "La Cage" reflect that. "Deserted Palace" and "Les Grange Brulees" are moving away from that style but still contain a bit of avant garde. However, to supplement his income, he recorded a couple of pop singles under the aliases, Foggy Joe Band and Pop Corn Orchestra, and I guess that rubbed off and made "Oxygene" with more appeal than his tutor or German electronic music.
So I'd say not rooted, but certainly made a conscious shift to a more melodic approach.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
I've got the Theme from Futurama.
Nice!
chartz
If it’s broke fix it!
This is an absolute classic, I remember the first time I heard it aged 8 or 9, in the early 70s. My then 25 godmother had the record. I bought it myself a few years later as a teenager. Nice memories. I love how music is connected to memory, how it triggers it.
Still have it.
Still have it.
flatpopely
Prog Rock/Moderator
TD ‘Rubycon’ is peak electronic music for me, but JMJ ‘Magnetic Fields’ is a very close second. I prefer it to the previous two releases, great though they are.
halvis
pfm Member
‘Jarre live’ along with 2 other albums was my first CD purchase along with the CD player. I remember playing it a lot, some of that may have been because it was a new fangled CD and I only had 3 of them, but I do recall some good tracks. I gave it my dad though as he liked it a lot. Could be worth a go.
chartz
If it’s broke fix it!
Funny that, it was a final buy for me. I think I haven’t listened to it since my initial disappointment.
Rubycon is one of my favourite records though!
Andrew C!
Been around a while....
Pretty similar here, although I did like dance floors! My step-father again got me into JMJ, as he did Kraftwerk. I pretty much purchased all his lp’s as they came out. Equinoxe and Oxygene still get play here…
freefallrob
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My love of JMJ started when I watched the Houston concert on TV, the Houston/Lyon LP was the first I purchased as a young teenager.
ZOOLOOK blew me away, still does.
ZOOLOOK blew me away, still does.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Yes. I discovered them from the inner bag of Steve Hillage's "Motivation Radio".
Picked up "Zero Time" and immediately recognised "Cybernaut" from it. Not long later, discovered the link with Stevie Wonder, so bought all of the albums he made with TONTO. The only other album I am aware of, that I don't have, is the Gil Scott Heron / Brian Jackson album, "1980". Although I am sure TONTO appears on a lot more albums...
Wolfmancatsup
Empire State Human
Yep. Picked up Zero Time and It's About Time in the early 'seventies. I *think* I may have heard of them via Stevie Wonder's outfit. The band's custom Moog setup was used in Brian dePalma's THE PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE feature film, in 1974...
It can be glimpsed a few times in the trailer:-
Mick
EDIT - sorry in response to the Lyon 1987 comment. I thought I had quoted.
Moi aussi. I was just coming to an end of a year living there. It was quite stunning with the lasers projected on the dominant basilica on the hill (was it Fourviere)?
I used to visit friends in Vienne just to the south to attend the Jazz Festival in the Roman amphitheatre there in subsequent years and saw many of the greats at very reasonable cost. The only drawback being the vile and tepid Kronenbourg that was sold there.
Accessible music for the relatively indigent is/was a strength in France.
Moi aussi. I was just coming to an end of a year living there. It was quite stunning with the lasers projected on the dominant basilica on the hill (was it Fourviere)?
I used to visit friends in Vienne just to the south to attend the Jazz Festival in the Roman amphitheatre there in subsequent years and saw many of the greats at very reasonable cost. The only drawback being the vile and tepid Kronenbourg that was sold there.
Accessible music for the relatively indigent is/was a strength in France.
CTank
pfm Member
Motivation Radio was a definite influence on my musical tastes, growing up. My dad played it incessantly. The TONTO sounds on the final track still sound cosmic now.Yes. I discovered them from the inner bag of Steve Hillage's "Motivation Radio".
Picked up "Zero Time" and immediately recognised "Cybernaut" from it. Not long later, discovered the link with Stevie Wonder, so bought all of the albums he made with TONTO. The only other album I am aware of, that I don't have, is the Gil Scott Heron / Brian Jackson album, "1980". Although I am sure TONTO appears on a lot more albums...
nostromo
pfm Member
Had to go and see him at the O2 a few years ago as a homage to the awe he put into my life. His trademark lasers were beautiful. I was at Docklands too...but on the wrong side of the Thames, enjoyed the fireworks as a young kid who couldn't afford the ticket (it was a sell out anyway). Nobody's mentioned Vangelis here, I sort of put him in the same category... I kick myself for never seeing him live.