(fr2) Cash Investigation : Neuromarketing, Votre Cerveau Les Intéresse + Portrait, Jean Luc Touly (2012)

Les grandes sociétés ne lésinent pas sur les moyens pour s’acheter la complaisance de nombreux syndicalistes : versements cachés, cadeaux personnels, emplois fictifs, paiements en liquide, primes exubérantes, avancements et avantages indus, élections de délégués arrangées…

Cette enquête inédite dévoile les méthodes des requins qui prolifèrent en France pour profiter de l'aubaine économique offerte par le vieillissement de la population, ou comment ceux censés protéger nos anciens les spolient trop souvent, jouant de leur faiblesse pour s'accaparer leurs biens. Pauvres ou riches, personne n'est à l'abri, car leurs réseaux ont des ramifications jusqu'au cœur du monde judiciaire. Un système bien rodé, dont les forfaits sont commis à l'ombre des institutions supposées veiller sur les plus âgés et les plus faibles. …

“Although it is certainly part of a performer’s task both to nurture a special relationship with a work and to give the public a chance to enjoy it, the first thing that you need to do is to separate the work from its history.”

Drummer Daniel Humair's name might be listed first on this double CD, and organist Eddy Louiss may be the dominant voice, but it is the inclusion of violinist Jean-Luc Ponty as part of the trio that really makes it quite historic. Recorded in Paris in 1968, the live set features Ponty at the beginning of his career, before he came to the U.S., teamed up with the George Duke Trio, joined forces with Frank Zappa, became part of the second Mahavishnu Orchestra and had his long string of fusion albums for Atlantic. Not quite 26 at the time, Ponty is featured on the date mostly playing standards including "You've Changed," "Summertime" (which is taken double time), "So What," "Bag's Groove" and "Oleo." Sometimes his violin sounds a little like a saxophone and it is clear, even at this early stage, that Ponty had a great deal of potential in jazz…

Consistently imaginative, Enigmatic Ocean is one of Jean-Luc Ponty's finest accomplishments. The French violinist recorded his share of fusion gems during the 1970s, and this album is at the top of the list. Often aggressive but sometimes reflective and moody, this LP is as unpredictable as it is adventurous…

Aurora is full of state-of-the-art (for 1975) high-powered fusion that differs surprisingly little from the music that Jean-Luc Ponty has played throughout the '80s and '90s…

A pioneer of the electric violin in the 1970’s, and an inspired manipulator of sequencers and synthesisers in the 1980’s, Jean-Luc Ponty is the undisputed master of his instrument in this area. Experimenting with electronics and synthesis, he liberated the violin’s image and capabilities from classical or folk settings. After cutting several albums for the World Pacific label in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, In 1974, fresh from a tour with the Mahavishnu Orchestra until he signed a solo deal with Atlantic Records. Throughout the next decade, he was to record a dozen visionary albums, 5 of which are included here.