Tonight a short quick post on something from the archives. I genuinely had totally forgotten this artist existed or that I owned any of their work; “Magnetic Fields” by Jean Michel Jarre.
So I came across this cassette in the garage at weekend when potting around. It was in a box of other old cassettes; got no means to play cassettes any more so had to resort to Spotify to re-live this.
Was it worth it? Well it was pretty strange as the music felt it had really aged. Sounded so basic compared to the electronic sounds of today. Obviously this guy at the time was noted for being at the forefront of electronic music in terms of what was possible although probably not in terms of mass popular appeal. Listening back to it I had the feeling that some of the sounds could be easily be reproduced on the Casio electronic keyboard owned by my son. In particular the last track which reminded me of the built-in demo tune that these keyboard have these days.
Having said that at the time I remember it being quite unique in terms of a whole album consisting of nothing but synths.
It’s a very short album at just over 35 minutes and more amazingly over half is taken up by the first track. This being called ‘Magnetic Fields Part 1’, the other tracks being numbered 2-5. Obviously not wasting any creative effort on naming the track then.
Middle Aged and Listening 2 Music 