Waiting for Cousteau
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| Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre | ||||
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Publication |
June 11, 1990 |
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| Label (s) | Disques Dreyfus | |||
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Electronica , New Age , Ambient , Pop |
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running time |
69 min 00 s |
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| Allmusic |
 
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Waiting for Cousteau (French: En Attendant Cousteau ) is an instrumental music album and was composed by the French artist Jean Michel Jarre . It isdedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was published on his eightieth birthday, June 11, 1990, by Disques Dreyfus in France and by Polydor in the rest of the world. Waiting for Cousteau is Jarre's tenth studio album. It reached number 14 in the charts in England and wasperformed in fullon the200th anniversary of the French national holiday on July 14, 1990 at La Défense in Paris at theconcert entitled Paris La Defense .
Specialty
The album was rated by the trade press as one of Jarre's best, as he had deviated very much from the style of his other albums on the album, which is particularly clear in the title track Waiting for Cousteau on the album. This was z. B. by Allmusic as "groundbreaking stuff" (English for "groundbreaking stuff"). The track was not recorded in the conventional way, but is based on computer-aided composing. Here, specifications for style, note ranges and instrumentation are specified and the piece is generated by the computer on the basis of these. The resulting, on CD lasting 46 minutes Title was in the mood for the actual concert Paris La Defense played on CD. From then on, this was retained for most of the other concerts. There is a 1 hour 14 minute version, which served as the soundtrack for the exhibition Konzert der Bilder (orig. Franz .: Concert d'images) in 1989.
Trivia
Waiting for Cousteau can only be heard for about 22 minutes on the time-limited media records and cassettes and is then faded out.
According to the SPARS Code, the first release is a completely digital recording and editing (DDD). Contrary to this, the remastered edition from 2015 printed the note New mastering from the original analog tapes .
Major versions
| year | Output form | medium | country | Label | Catalog number | comment |
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| 1990 | original | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, Polydor | 843 614-2, 843 614-2 | First edition CD SPARS Code: DDD |
| 1991 | Remastered * | CD | France | Disques Dreyfus | 843 624-2 | Series 'Digitally Remastered' |
| 1997 | Remastered | CD | France, Germany | EPIC | EPC 488144 2 | 96 kHz / 24bit technology by Scott Hull |
| 2015 | Remastered | CD | Europe | Sony Music | 88875046392 | by Dave Dadwater |
* Since the first edition was only published a year earlier, it is doubtful whether this is really a new mastering instead of a new edition.
Track list
Written and arranged by Jean-Michel Jarre.
- Calypso Part 1 - 8:24
- Calypso Part 2 - 7:10
- Calypso Part 3 (Fin de Siècle) - 6:28
- Waiting for Cousteau - 46:55
occupation
- Jean Michel Jarre - keyboards
- The Amoco Renegades - Steel Pans
- Guy Delacroix - bass
- Christophe Deschamps - drums
- Michel Geiss and Dominique Perrier - additional keyboards
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ allmusic.com Album Review "Waiting for Cousteau" , accessed November 15, 2015
- ↑ http://www.everyhit.com
- ↑ http://jeanmicheljarre.com/live/paris-la-defense
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/en-attendant-cousteau-mw0000171145
- ↑ Entry on the Concert d'images exhibition at http://aerozonejmj.fr [1]
- ↑ Discogs entry [2]
- ↑ Discogs entry [3]