Waiting for Cousteau

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Waiting for Cousteau
File:Waiting for Cousteau Jarre Album.jpg
Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre
Released 11 June 1990
Recorded Coral Sound Studio, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and Croissy Studio, Paris
Genre New-age, ambient, minimal, electronica
Length 69:00
Label Disques Dreyfus
Producer Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre chronology
Revolutions
(1988)Revolutions1988
Waiting for Cousteau
(1990)
Images - The Best of Jean Michel Jarre
(1991)Images - The Best of Jean Michel Jarre1991
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [1]

Waiting for Cousteau (French title: En attendant Cousteau) is the seventh studio album by Jean Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 1990. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. Allmusic described the album as "groundbreaking stuff", due to its extreme stylistic differences from his other albums.[1] The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts.[2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jean Michel Jarre.

  1. "Calypso Part 1" – 8:24
  2. "Calypso Part 2" – 7:10
  3. "Calypso Part 3 (Fin de Siècle)" – 6:28
  4. "Waiting for Cousteau" – 46:55

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 and cassette tape the title track was edited to only 22 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 (and also in many concerts after this "first"), 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.

The last track En Attendant Cousteau was also used in the soundtrack to a documentary entitled "Palawan: Le Dernier Refuge" by oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

The Song Calypso contains audio from the tracks Moon Machine & Zoolookologie.

Personnel

References

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