Jean-Jacques Perrey
Recording both as a solo artist and in collaboration with Gershon Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey helped popularize electronic music with a series of albums in the 1960s that used Moog synthesizers, the Ondioline, and magnetic tape. His work was never intended to be part of the avant-garde, as Perrey himself cheerfully declared in his liner notes. His goal was to popularize electronic music by deploying it in happy, simple tunes and arrangements. That's why his music falls far closer to easy listening/space age pop than any sort of cutting edge -- and that is also why his music sounds more nostalgic than futuristic.
In the early '50s, Perrey became fascinated by the Ondioline, a keyboard instrument that anticipated the synthesizer with its emulation of other instruments. He dropped out of medical school to become a sales representative for the Ondioline, and by the early '60s he had moved to the U.S. to work in television, radio, and the recording studio. His '60s albums for Vanguard, both as a solo act and half of Perrey-Kingsley, were his most widely circulated, giving Perrey a chance to demonstrate his arsenal of electronic instruments, treatments, and tape manipulations. The actual results were bouncy and childish, perhaps betraying more of Perrey's considerable background in radio/TV jingles than may have been intended. (Treated more as novelties than innovations, they came back into vogue when Perrey was profiled in RE/SEARCH's Incredibly Strange Music book in the 1990s.)
Perrey returned to France in 1970, where he continued to work in radio, TV, soundtracks, and other musical projects. By the '90s he had begun recording again, first in a collaboration with French electronica duo Air, then with an album of his own, Eclektronics. Additional albums followed, including 2008's Destination Space, which the 80-year-old Perrey created with help from fellow composer Dana Countryman. In keeping with the musicians' experimental nature, the album featured artificial, computer-generated vocals instead of sounds supplied by human vocalists. Perrey died in November 2016 at the age of 87.
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Diskografie
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Amazing Electronic Pop Sound Of
Electronic - Erschienen bei Vanguard Records am 01.01.1968
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Moog Indigo
Electronic - Erschienen bei Vanguard Records am 01.01.1970
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The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean-Jacques Perrey
Electronic - Erschienen bei Craft Recordings am 01.01.1968
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The Happy Electropop Music Machine
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Dana Countryman
Electronic - Erschienen bei Oglio Entertainment am 26.09.2006
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Moog Sensations
Electronic - Erschienen bei JJP Archives am 20.03.2020
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Eclektronics
Jean-Jacques Perrey, David Chazam
Electronic - Erschienen bei Basta Audio-Visuals am 15.06.1998
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Musique Electronique Du Cosmos (Electronic Music from Outer Space)
Electronic - Erschienen bei JJP Archives am 21.02.2020
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Ela
Jean-Jacques Perrey, David Chazam
Alternativ und Indie - Erschienen bei Freaksville Music am 01.01.2015
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Prelude au sommeil (Jean Jacques Perrey)
Elektronische Musik oder Musique concrète - Erschienen bei Trunk Records am 01.05.2016
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Prelude Au Sommeil (Remastered)
Electronic - Erschienen bei RevOla am 11.07.2019
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Electronic Music from Outer Space
Electronic - Erschienen bei BRAIN DISCOS am 14.07.2017
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Circus of Life
Gilbert Sigrist, O C Banks, Jean-Jacques Perrey
Kinder - Erschienen bei Koka Media am 01.12.2000
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Froots Juice (Remixes)
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Cosmic Pocket
Hip-Hop/Rap - Erschienen bei Invitro Records am 01.01.2010
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PRELUDE AU SOMMEIL
Klassik - Erschienen bei INTERSECTION am 08.06.2018
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The Alien Planet / Cybernuts (Remastered)
Klassik - Erschienen bei BRAIN DISCOS am 01.01.1959
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Past Future Sound Tracks
Elektronische Musik oder Musique concrète - Erschienen bei PROFOUND am 20.12.2019
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Cadmus, Le Robot de l'Espace
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Henri Gruel
Hörbücher - Erschienen bei SINETONE AMR am 16.05.2011
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Musique Electronique Du Cosmos
Pop - Erschienen bei SINETONE AMR am 01.01.1962
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