Re: made on earth
Mark Turner (mturner@netcom.com)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:49:44 -0700 (PDT)
> >Made on Earth is the latest project by Hector Zazou, a French
> >composer/arranger/producer who has dabbled in many different styles
> >of music over the past 20 years.
>
> whose the "barbara" mentioned on the EP. if my memory serves, it said she
> wrote the track? maybe one of the artists who Zazou pulled in to work on
> the project? for some reason i think it said she wrote/sung/etc the
> original track... if she did have as strong as an influence on the track
> as i thought, it would interesting to see what other things she has had her
> hands in...
>
Barbara Gogan has collaborated with Zazou in the past, but other
than that I know nothing about her.
> >His SAHARA BLUE is a tribute to poet Arthur Rimbaud,
> >and SONGS OF THE COLD SEAS is a song-cycle inspired by the Arctic
> >North.
>
> interesting to hear about concept based albums. where would these fit into
> our human required music genre definitions? jazzy styling or more
> atmospheric (for an odd reason cold seas brings feelings of calm music)..
> hmm.. once again my curiousity is sparked.. :)
SAHARA BLUE is *very* hard to categorize. It's a combination of
songs and spoken word with music that ranges from dance tracks to
ballads. Maybe this partial list of contributors will give you some
idea of the musical schizophrenia you can expect: Ryuichi Sakamoto,
DJ Morpheus, Tim Simenon, John Cale, Bill Laswell, Barbara Gogan,
Dead Can Dance, David Sylvian, and Keith Leblanc.
I can't tell you much more about COLD SEAS because I haven't
heard it.
--
Mark Turner
mturner@netcom.com