Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

Pete, thanks for your comment. I wasn't certain about the Kurzweil part but I'm sure I quoted it correctly. Naturally, the manufacturer's name is not important.
Factory presets are not unnatural or distasteful, in fact they may account, to a certain extent, for the marked difference between one ...

I read this discussion and have not much to add to this, except that I remembered what someone who purported to be a musical critic wrote in his review of the concert JM gave in my city. He said that if he had been in Jarre's shoes he probably could have done the same with less instruments on the ...

i think the razormaid mix of Revolutions is better than the Extended Mix <.<

but that's my personal opinion

Thought they were all just extended versions. :twisted: I have a dozen of Razormaid mixes of songs by Michael Cretu's kin and musical offspring (Sandra, Hubert KaH et al) ... Not worth the ...

Ready to be elected on your say-so. Next life, perhaps. Lots of fresh fruit (no hothouse tomatoes in winter), nice brandy etc. Why not?
As to that tasteful and benevolent remark of mine quoted above, it came out because I have recently seen several cases in different fields of art where celebrities ...

For an ardent fan getting to know other creative sides of a composer or another artist is of course very interesting. However, I always keep it in my mind that Jarre never refers publicly even to anything preceding the Oxygen album, so this is rather a piece of information for the fans of Juvet alone.

GeeJee wrote:

rob9382 wrote:Rendez-Vous 2

Second that.

Hope he finally got rid of that awful wahwah effect..

Time for someone to recall what he wrote in reply to someone's wishes regarding future recordings. May I quote your big-thing thoughts?

Thanks to the global crisis and the crisis in the industry, musicians slowly return to the ancient practice of playing their music live in a manner worthy of a musician. Excellent!

GeeJee wrote:
Keeping drafts is something else than re-using an old theme...

Yes, my Master, I obey to your command.
P.S.
Sometimes your profile picture leaves me puzzled as to whether you're reusing Sauron's theme or some old pirate's theme. You'll guess what your servant means.

GeeJee wrote: Personally I think there is little out there, as JMJ is much of a perfectionist, I'm not sure whether or not he would've kept some drafts... but who knows?

What about one of the main themes of Les Granges Brulees and its reincarnation as Rendez-Vous Part III?

Hmm, Jakob, this is quite interesting. I'd be happy if you gave me a link to that discussion.
To tell the truth, in my opinion it's very wise not to add any such tracks to re-issues. It tells me that some commercial aspects are not allowed to take control over the artist's original intent and vision.

I read the discussion about the Zoolook recording with interest and, by cross-relating it to some other information, I came to a conclusion that, as Jarre continued to work on in the 1980s, he may have had more and more pieces that happened to be composed and recorded during recording sessions but ...

I guess I wouldn't have recognized that vast difference...
Sh*t happens, like it did last night in Riga (as shown in links in my www blog). But it's really nice that you admit this. Are you into photography, to judge clearly?
I don't mind you saying about this matter anything you may like, for my ...

there's some sort of "smear effect" on the right edge of the "Zoolook" front cover as well, so speaking about "nothing in common" was just a bit too fast ;)



In terms of photography I saw there and have said exactly what I meant to say. There is a vast difference between some sort of digitally ...

I've never seen any similarity between Zoolook and Metamorphoses .
Maybe there are vocal performances and the participation of Laurie Anderson among other people, but both albums have a really different spirit. Even the portraits on the covers don't convey the same atmosphere.

Hear, hear!
As to ...

In me Zoolook brings up the visions of a purely ethnic nature, especially keeping in mind the context of Australia. Wasn't this exactly what the author himself wanted to convey and express?
For me there are no vocals in Zoolook. And you can read the names of all those languages used as phrases or ...