Serge

Serge Douw was born in Australia and is an expert in laser technology, this album being the musical score to a laser light show which tracks the formation of life on Earth.
Powerful and emotive, grand and majestic, the strength and purpose of this futuristic music will entrance you. Monumentally moving music with percussive and inventive scores that captivate the essence of life on Earth, and the changes that are needed to create harmony and to evolve positively into the future.
Basically if you are "into" Jarre then you should find much to your liking on this album.

Entretiens Jean Renoir avec Jean Serge.
« L’art du cinéma consiste à s’approcher de la vérité des hommes et non pas à raconter des histoires de plus en plus surprenantes. » Jean Renoir

Serge Reggiani is a French chanson legend who first rose to fame as a singer in the 1960s after already having established himself as an actor in the cinema decades earlier. Born on May 2, 1922, in Reggio Emilia, Italy, he moved to France with his family at age eight. In the 1940s he established himself as an actor in the French cinema, most notably appearing in the Marcel Carné film Les Portes de la Nuit (1946) in addition to many others. He remained active in the cinema from the 1940s until the end of the century, acting in over 80 films total.

Wonderfull album of eccentric, minimal contemporary pop ambience from this classically trained French duo. Docteur Labus was the fourth album they made together in 1988 for the modern dance theater piece by Jean-Claude Galotta. Absolutely great music, sometimes high energy, sometimes quite lyrical.

You're Under Arrest, Gainsbourg's final album, was another collaboration with American Billy Rush in New Jersey.

Serge Gainsbourg recorded his first album in 1958. But it was at the end of the 1960s that his short affair with Brigitte Bardot changed his jazzy style towards this suggestive music with sumptuous arrangements. He then met Jane Birkin with whom he recorded the 1969 duet "Je t'aime … Moi Non Plus", a song with scorching lyrics punctuated by gasps and explicit moans. Although it was banned in many countries, this song reached the top of the charts all over Europe. In 1971, he released The Story of Melody Nelson, a cycle of dark songs that mark his growing detachment from modern culture. Drugs, disease, suicide and misanthropy become recurring themes in his work.

As with many of the composers works, live instruments are combined with electronics in Karlheinz Stockhausens Mantra. Written in 1970, the work is scored for two ring-modulated pianos. Each player is also equipped with a chromatic set of crotales (antique cymbals) and a wood block. A short-wave radio producing morse code or a magnetic tape recording of morse code can either be controlled by one of the pianists or by a separate performer. Mantra was written for the great piano duo of Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky. The pianists performed at the works premiere and on its first recording in 1971 for Deutsche Grammophon. This exciting new recording from Mirare features pianists Jean-Francois Heisser and Jean-Frederic Neuburger, accompanied by Serge Lemouton on electronics.