Monday 12 October 2015

Jean-Luc Chevalier's much smoother 1985 version of Zig Zag... and two years of this blog...




Compare the Ballade on this record with the previous one:





This is all the difference between those glorious progressive heady times of the classical-influenced seventies versus the smoothly slick and monotonous eighties, a descent into record company muzak-speak for the masses, like Orwell's news cliche vocabulary as applied to music...  though the light of brilliance shines through in the compositions themselves, the style in which they are played does not quite do them justice...

Here is one artist who really believed in recycling, all the original compositions from Zig Zag were used in later albums.  In particular the 1987 album Saharienne is almost identical in lineup of tracks as you can compare here with here.  Clearly the songs were thrown into a bag and reassorted randomly, but oddly enough my favourite track, the Hommage a JH II from the last post, was replaced with an inferior and odd Kâkâh Boudha.  Oh well-- these artists... what do they know?

I'll feature a few more of his records-- the less available / nonreissued ones of course-- in the near future, so if you like these, stay tuned.




11 comments:

  1. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/thfeqo

    It's been two years now exactly, give or take one day & half dozen weiss biers, and we're still going strong-- with huge highlights (for me) of such progressive masterpieces as L' energie mysterieuse and MO, and yesterday's Zig Zag, there is a lot of hope for more wondrous goodies out there to be resuscitated from oblivion... stay tuned, even in the next month we will be surprised, I'm sure...



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  2. Happy bday, great job Julian!

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    1. thanks apps!
      btw you'll be surprised by a soon upcoming post...

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    2. can't wait to see! All the best buddy!

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  3. Congrats and Thank you for all you share!!

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  4. Happy Bday, two years of joy for me, great job, keep the fantatstic work going.

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  5. I owe you a big THANK YOU for all these masterpieces and this wonderful blog, which I have been following since its very first day. Keep up your fantastic work, my friend. Good morning from Athens, Greece :)

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  6. Congrats and thank you for all you effort´s and share´s .......Once more, thank´s for all the great gem´s ....Keep it alive .......! Hug´s !

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  7. Yeah happy very belated birthday, great blog you put together here to hear,,,opened my ears you have

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