Waiting for Cousteau
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| Waiting for Cousteau | ||
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| Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre | ||
| Released | 1990 | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | Electronic | |
| Length | 69:00 | |
| Label | Disques Dreyfus | |
| Producer(s) | Jean Michel Jarre | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Jean Michel Jarre chronology | ||
| Revolutions (1988) |
Waiting for Cousteau (1990) |
Images - The Best of Jean Michel Jarre (1991) |
Waiting for Cousteau (French title: En attendant Cousteau) is an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 1990 on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday June 11, 1990.
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[edit] Track listing
- "Calypso" – 8:24
- "Calypso Part 2" – 7:10
- "Calypso Part 3 (Fin de siècle)" – 6:28
- "Waiting for Cousteau" ("En attendant Cousteau") – 46:55
[edit] Track details
The title track is a composition in the ambient style and an edited version of the music he produced for Concert d'Images, an exhibition which contained photographs and selected objects from Jarre's concerts. The original plan was to release the album edit of the track as a promo CD single, but those plans were abandoned. On vinyl record and cassette tape the title track was edited to only 20 minutes due to the lack of space on the formats.
Jarre utilised the unedited version as an ambient audience "warm-up" in the hours prior to the Paris La Defense concert in 1990, played on the specially installed public address sound system scattered throughout Paris for this event.
Early promos for the album had the title track named "Cousteau on the Beach", but was renamed later, because Jacques-Yves Cousteau thought beaches are an environmental disaster.
[edit] Personnel
- Jean Michel Jarre – Keyboards
- The Amoco Renegades – Steel drums
- Guy Delacroix – Bass
- Christophe Deschamps – Drums
- Michel Geiss – Keyboards
- Dominique Perrier – Keyboards
