The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey explained

The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey is the sixth studio album by French electronic musician Jean-Jacques Perrey, released in 1968 on the Vanguard Records label.

The penultimate song "Four, Three, Two, One" was made together with Billy Mure. The final track "Gypsy in Rio" is a homage to Spike Jones.^[1]

Critical reception

Billboard described it as "a fun album, which admirably accomplished [Perrey's] stated purpose: to show that electronic music need not be esoteric. He utilizes tapes and various apparatus to accomplish this."^[2] For the 1996 album reissue, the US magazine described the album as "a campy and entertaining 1968 solo project of synthesized blurps, bleats and solid-state noodling".^[3]

AllMusic reviewer Richie Unterberger said that it "sounds like nothing so much as late-'60s instrumental 'mood' music albums as refracted through a slightly more ambitious, electronic lens. It's really not something you can put on again and again, but it's kind of fun nonetheless."

Personnel

Adapted from the album's sleeve notes.^[4]

• Jean-Jacques Perrey – instruments
• Ed Friedner – engineering and special effects
• Peter Bramley – artwork

Uses in other media

"The Minuet of the Robots" was the soundtrack for the Muppet feature "Big Bird's Dance" on December 14, 1969, in The Ed Sullivan Show, accompanied by arrangements made by the CBS Studio Orchestra.^[5] In 2010, "Brazilian Flower" was used in a soccer commercial.^[6] Two pieces from this album were used in short films by David Lewandowsky: Going to the Store from 2011 used "The Little Ships",^[7] and Late for Meeting from 2013 used "The Mexican Cactus".^[8]

External links

• The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean Jacques Perrey at Discogs

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jean Jacques Perrey's Top 20 . Dana Countryman . 24 January 2022.
2. Special Merit Picks . Billboard . 2 November 1968 . 78 . 10 September 2022.
3. Morris . Chris . 27 July 1996 . Summer Cleanup Uncovers Indie Greats; Memphis' Oblivians Not To Be Overlooked . Billboard . 75 . 21 January 2022.
4. The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey . sleeve notes . Vanguard Records . 1968 . VSD-79286.
5. Web site: This Video May Ruin Cherished Memories Of Your Childhood . Synthtopia . 2 June 2021 . 24 September 2009.
6. Web site: Football Commercial, using Jean-Jacques Perrey tune! . Matrixsynth . 2 June 2021.
7. Emami . Gazelle . Bizarre Short Film Entrances Hundreds Of Thousands On YouTube . . 5 September 2011 . 16 January 2022 . en.
8. Web site: Amidi. Amid. 25 October 2013. "Late for Meeting" by David Lewandowsky. 27 January 2021. Cartoon Brew.