Jazz Articles about Jean-Luc Herve Berthelot

Jean-Luc Herve Berthelot: Echoes from the Last Fairyland

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

This French import is quite a surprise. The packaging, with its hokey fantasy themes ("fairies, elves, and gentle wizards live in vast forests, where white unicorns and iridescent dragons frolic peacefully"...) leads you to think that this will be just more pretty-sweet New Age fluff. But ignore the words and listen to the music and you will find a surprisingly thoughtful and inventive set of synthesizer pieces. The musical language is the same basic repertoire as the famous Euro-synth players ...

Jean-Luc Herve Berthelot: Echoes from the Last Fairyland

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

This French import is quite a surprise. The packaging, with its hokey fantasy themes ("fairies, elves, and gentle wizards live in vast forests, where white unicorns and iridescent dragons frolic peacefully"...) leads you to think that this will be just more pretty-sweet New Age fluff. But ignore the words and listen to the music and you will find a surprisingly thoughtful and inventive set of synthesizer pieces. The musical language is the same basic repertoire as the famous Euro-synth players ...

Jean-Luc Herve Berthelot: Marco Polo: A life for a dream

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

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 ...