Jean-Jacques Perrey and David Chazam - ELA

by Maarten Schiethart

published: 21 / 5 / 2015

Jean-Jacques Perrey and David Chazam - ELA

Label: Freaksville Records
Format: CD

Entertaining fun from synthesizer veteran Jean-Jacques Perrey and young experimental musician David Chazam, who on this collection of studio and live recordings provide a showcase of daft charm

Review

A pioneer of easy tune moog synthesizer music, Jean-Jacques Perrey is the originator of that sort of happy-go-lucky music which was subsequently made famous by Lipps Inc, Daft Punk and Gary Numan. Apprehensive viewers of 'QI' may remember Bill Bailey mentioning Monsieur Perrey. Perrey's quirky cartoon tunes appear on this album with several live recordings that have included recent shows with David Chazam. This mish mash of an album works only to marginal benefit. Once you have got into the naive groove of Perrey's moog synthesizer entreprises, the mood is then slightly wasted by the live recordings. 'ELA' portrays the master at work, as well as the master of yesterday.

Track Listing:-

1 Electropop Parade
2 28th Paradigm
3 Chronophonie
4 Hectic Joker
5 The Sponge
6 What's up Duck?
7 Kid's Corner
8 Cats in the Night
9 Gossipo Perpetuo
10 Indicatif spatial