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jean-jacques perrey - jean-jacques perrey et son ondioline - forgotten futures - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. La Vache et le Prisonnier - Main Theme (excerpt)
2. Visa To The Stars (commercial arrangement)
3. Chicken on the Rocks
4. Danielle of Amsterdam
5. Cigale
6. Lame des Poetes
7. Dandelion Wine
8. Barnyard in Orbit
9. Serenade a la Mule
10. Mars Reflector
11. Pioneers of the Stars (orchestral arrangement)
12. Ondioline demonstration recordings from Satellite Records acetates - Introduction
13. French Horn
14. Bagpipes
15. Fagot
16. Bongos
17. Evocation of Cartoons
18. The Cat
19. Oboe
20. Banjo
21. Spinet
22. Clarinet
23. Mandolin
24. Cello
25. String Bass
26. Violin
27. Castanets
28. Castanets with Sound
29. Sounds with a Base of B and A
30. Sounds with a Base of C
31. Sounds with F and H
32. Percussion without String
33. We use the Letter D, Several Seconds
34. Special Effects with the String
35. The String with the D
36. Special Effects
37. Percussion with the D, Several Seconds
38. Final Message from Jean-Jacques

Never-before-released Ondioline cuts from Jean-Jacques Perrey’s archive, featuring a 36-page booklet with unreleased archival photos and an essay by Simon Reynolds, this release is curated by long-time Perrey fan and recent collaborator Wally De Backer (Gotye), this is the first release on his Forgotten Futures imprint !

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Jean-Jacques Perrey (1929-2016) was a pioneer of electronic pop music celebrated for his uniquely whimsical sampled soundworld, his groundbreaking style of rhythmic tape editing, and his early use of the Moog modular synthesizer.

Perrey was also the world’s only virtuoso of the Ondioline, a remarkable French proto-synthesizer from the 1940s.

Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline focusses on this early period of Perrey’s musical life, exploring his intimate relationship with this unusual and expressive instrument.

The compilation features never-before-released collaborations with Angelo Badalamenti and Dick Hyman, early arrangements from test pressings of beloved Perrey tunes, and cuts from highly collectible albums of early library music he recorded.

Also featured is a rare extended demonstration of the Ondioline, which receives its first commercial release.

A must for dedicated fans, and a vibrant introduction for new listeners, this release canvasses Perrey’s unparalleled mastery of the Ondioline, points towards his later sample and Moog work, and illuminates a heretofore little-explored melancholy side to his recorded work.