Robi83 wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 5:31 pm
Jote wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 4:40 pm
One must not be trained musician...
nonsense
He, anyway, trained enough to alter and modify the way he wish.
You can pretend all you want he's playing wrong notes, out of sync and stumbles on purpose, just keep me out of this, thanks
Yeah, he can never win, ever.
Keep that in mind the next time when YOU complain about something
Good
He is an electronic musician, not a classical musician. He has never been some amazing piano player and never even claimed that he is. He fell in love with music by messing with tape recorders as a kid and listening to jazz, not by listening to classical music. He immediately wanted to experiment with noises, already in the 1960s.
He is Jean-Michel Jarre, not Vangelis. At the end of the day, JMJ's strengths are closer to the way of let's say Orbital than to Vangelis or any of the "classical music on synth" artists. Fans in the 70s were mislead by Oxygene and Equinoxe. They thought that's the type of music JMJ wanted to do regardless of the instrument, that he is some "composer Maestro", maybe a piano virtuoso and not an electronic producer who can manipulate sound in a very creative way in a studio. Oxygene, Equinoxe, even Magnetic Fields partly (though it's already noisier and more industrial), Rendez-Vous and half of Chronologie sounds the way it sounds because that was the sound in those times and JMJ created his version. That's it, he has never really cared if his latest album has a that classical music atmosphere with its melodies and vibe. It was just spice for him, not the meat. Again, he and Vangelis are fundamentally different, way more different than most JMJ fans admit it. They just had a period when they accidentally did somewhat similar things. That's the truth.
