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Jean-Luc Herve Berthelot: Marco Polo: A life for a dream
by AAJ Staff
If you want to do an album of “New Age Orientalia,” you have a hard act to follow. In the late ‘70s and mid-‘80s Kitaro and Vangelis cornered the market on it with their blockbuster albums China (Vangelis, 1979) and Silk Road (Kitaro, 1985). Those who follow on the musical Silk Road are always going to be under the shadow of these predecessors.
French composer Jean-Luc Berthelot works much along the lines of these big commercial musicmakers. He uses lots ...
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