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Jean-Luc Ponty: Individual Choice

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Label: Fnac Music
Released: 1983.03.10
Time:
 37:16
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Jean-Luc Ponty
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.ponty.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1996
Price in €: 14,99



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[1] Computer Incantations for World Peace (J-L.Ponty) - 5:40
[2] Far from the Beaten Paths (J-L.Ponty) - 5:58
[3] In Spiritual Love (J-L.Ponty) - 7:00
[4] Eulogy to Oscar Romero (J-L.Ponty) - 2:34
[5] Nostalgia (J-L.Ponty) - 5:00
[6] Individual Choice (J-L.Ponty) - 4:56
[7] In Spite of All (J-L.Ponty) - 5:57

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JEAN-LUC PONTY - violin, keyboards, organ, synthesizer, programming

ALLAN HOLDSWORTH - guitar
GEORGE DUKE - Mini-moog solo
RANDY "The Emporer" JACKSON - bass
RAYFORD GRIFFIN - drums

PETER R. KELSEY - Engineer
STUART GRAHAM - Engineer

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1984 LP Polydor 5138
1992 CD Atlantic 80098-2
1992 CS Atlantic 80098-4

Principally recorded at The Music Grinder and Cherokee Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California from March to May 1983.



Here is Ponty's radical break with his past, one that further tightened his control over his craft while ironically liberating his muse. In laying out his attractive new music on synthesizers and sequencers, emphasizing revolving ostinato patterns, Ponty rejuvenated his melodic gift, and as a result, even in this controlled setting, his violin solos take on a new freshness and exuberance. Except for two tracks, Ponty does without a formal rhythm section -- and on two other tracks, he goes it completely alone. Indeed, he does best of all when he has no one but himself to play with on "Computer Incantations for World Peace" and the lovely mood piece "Eulogy to Oscar Romero." Guest interloper George Duke (a fellow refugee from Frank Zappa's band) contributes a Minimoog solo to ""In Spiritual Love," where Ponty provides his own percussive backing on rhythm computer. Even if one grumbles on principle about the reduction of spontaneity in Ponty's music over the Atlantic years, the musical end here absolutely justifies the means. Don't miss it.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide



"Im Vergleich zur Analogplatte ist die CD nicht nur feiner durchgezeichnet,ihr Klangbild ist außerdem klarer,offener,'lebendiger' und sogar wärmer ausgefallen."

F.Schöler in stereo 8/84
 

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Instrumental!

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