Jean-Jacques Perrey

Jean-Jacques Perrey
Born: Jan 20, 1929
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Styles: Space Age Pop, Electronic, Musique Concrète, Obscuro
Biography: 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 ...Read full biography
The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey
Released: 1968
Label: Vanguard
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"What I have tried to do," wrote Perrey in the liner notes to this album, "is to bring the electronic sonorities to popular music." This he accomplished via the ondioline, Moog, magnetic tapes, electronic ...Read full review
Destination Space
Released: 2008
Label: Oglio Entertainment Group
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Partnered again with Seattle-based composer/arranger Dana Countryman, as he was on 2006's The Happy Electropop Music Machine, 79-year-old Jean-Jacques Perrey is up to his old tricks on Destination Space, ...Read full review
More Jean-Jacques Perrey albums: Main Albums (7), Compilations (1), Singles & EPs (2)
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