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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Discografia
19 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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Amazing Electronic Pop Sound Of
Electronic - Lançado por Vanguard Records em 01/01/1968
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Moog Indigo
Electronic - Lançado por Vanguard Records em 01/01/1970
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The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean-Jacques Perrey
Electronic - Lançado por Craft Recordings em 01/01/1968
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The Happy Electropop Music Machine
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Dana Countryman
Electronic - Lançado por Oglio Entertainment em 26/09/2006
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Moog Sensations
Electronic - Lançado por JJP Archives em 20/03/2020
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Eclektronics
Jean-Jacques Perrey, David Chazam
Electronic - Lançado por Basta Audio-Visuals em 15/06/1998
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Musique Electronique Du Cosmos (Electronic Music from Outer Space)
Electronic - Lançado por JJP Archives em 21/02/2020
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Ela
Jean-Jacques Perrey, David Chazam
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Freaksville Music em 01/01/2015
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Prelude au sommeil (Jean Jacques Perrey)
Experimental - Lançado por Trunk Records em 01/05/2016
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Prelude Au Sommeil (Remastered)
Electronic - Lançado por RevOla em 11/07/2019
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Circus of Life
Gilbert Sigrist, O C Banks, Jean-Jacques Perrey
Children - Lançado por Koka Media em 01/12/2000
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Froots Juice (Remixes)
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Cosmic Pocket
Hip-Hop/Rap - Lançado por Invitro Records em 01/01/2010
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The Alien Planet / Cybernuts (Remastered)
Classical - Lançado por BRAIN DISCOS em 01/01/1959
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Past Future Sound Tracks
Experimental - Lançado por PROFOUND em 20/12/2019
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Cadmus, Le Robot de l'Espace
Jean-Jacques Perrey, Henri Gruel
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por SINETONE AMR em 16/05/2011
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Musique Electronique Du Cosmos
Pop - Lançado por SINETONE AMR em 01/01/1962
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