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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Discografía
21 álbum(es) • Ordenado por Mejores ventas
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Amazing Electronic Pop Sound Of
Electrónica - Editado por Vanguard Records el 1 ene. 1968
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Moog Indigo
Electrónica - Editado por Vanguard Records el 1 ene. 1970
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The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean-Jacques Perrey
Electrónica - Editado por Craft Recordings el 1 ene. 1968
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The Happy Electropop Music Machine
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Dana Countryman
Electrónica - Editado por Oglio Entertainment el 26 sept. 2006
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Moog Sensations
Electrónica - Editado por JJP Archives el 20 mar. 2020
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Eclektronics
Jean-Jacques Perrey, David Chazam
Electrónica - Editado por Basta Audio-Visuals el 15 jun. 1998
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Musique Electronique Du Cosmos (Electronic Music from Outer Space)
Electrónica - Editado por JJP Archives el 21 feb. 2020
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Ela
Jean-Jacques Perrey, David Chazam
Alternativa & Indie - Editado por Freaksville Music el 1 ene. 2015
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Prelude au sommeil (Jean Jacques Perrey)
Electrónica o musique concrète - Editado por Trunk Records el 1 may. 2016
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Prelude Au Sommeil (Remastered)
Electrónica - Editado por RevOla el 11 jul. 2019
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Electronic Music from Outer Space
Electrónica - Editado por BRAIN DISCOS el 14 jul. 2017
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Circus of Life
Gilbert Sigrist, O C Banks, Jean-Jacques Perrey
Children - Editado por Koka Media el 1 dic. 2000
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Froots Juice (Remixes)
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Cosmic Pocket
Hip-Hop/Rap - Editado por Invitro Records el 1 ene. 2010
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PRELUDE AU SOMMEIL
Clásica - Editado por INTERSECTION el 8 jun. 2018
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The Alien Planet / Cybernuts (Remastered)
Clásica - Editado por BRAIN DISCOS el 1 ene. 1959
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Past Future Sound Tracks
Electrónica o musique concrète - Editado por PROFOUND el 20 dic. 2019
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Cadmus, Le Robot de l'Espace
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Henri Gruel
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SINETONE AMR el 16 may. 2011
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Musique Electronique Du Cosmos
Pop - Editado por SINETONE AMR el 1 ene. 1962
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