Music
Some of the artists whose music I enjoy, listed in no particular order.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jarre was the first artist I became a fan of, back in 1987. Favourite
albums include Equinoxe, The Concerts In China,
Zoolook and Chronologie, with Oxygene
Part IV, Magnetic Fields Part 4,
Ethnicolor and Calypso Part 2 being only some
of the songs I like the most. In August 1993 I had the pleasure of
attending his Wembley concert, which was part of the Europe In Concert
tour. I'm also a collector of Jean-Michel Jarre, and I write for the
UK fanzine Revolution,
with a series called "In The Beginning" that looks at Jarre's
pre-Oxygene releases, like La Cage, Deserted
Palace and Hypnose.
Enigma
Enigma is another favourite, and I'm quite involved in Internet activities
on the this artist; I have a web page which
opened in August 1994, and I proposed and now administrate the
Enigma mailing list which has been running since
April 1994. Taken from my introductory message to the mailing list, here's
how I got interested in Enigma.
Sandra
I've known about Sandra since 1985, when she
had great success in Norway and the rest of Europe with (I'll Never
Be) Maria Magdalena and In The Heat Of The Night. Not
being a record-buyer at that time, I didn't really pick up on her music
until 1994, when I found the compilation
Ten On One (The
Singles) in a record store. Having been exposed to the music of
Paintings In
Yellow earlier on by a friend, I decided to try this album.
Gradually I got more albums by Sandra, and with
Into A Secret
Land I found an album full of joyful and energetic songs.
This album remains one of my all-time favourite albums, and songs like
Heaven
Can Wait,
Around
My Heart and my favourite Sandra song
We'll
Be Together are excellent examples of well-crafted pop songs.
Another album to highlight is
Close To Seven
from 1992, which contains beautiful music in the shape of
Mirrored
In Your Eyes and
Seal
It Forever, to mention two.
Vangelis
Vangelis has
released a lot of albums over the years, exploring many different styles
and types of music. I enjoy most of these, like L'Apocalypse Des
Animaux, Heaven And Hell, Spiral (with the
eternal To The Unknown Man), Mask,
Direct (Metallic Rain is one of many fabulous
songs here), The City and 1492 - Conquest Of
Paradise.
Sunscreem
My first encounter with
Sunscreem were as
remixers of Jean-Michel Jarre's Chronologie Part 4 song, in
May 1993. Of the remixes done of this track (others were done by Praga Kahn
and Black Girl Rock), the Sunscreem remixes were the one I liked the least,
so it is a bit ironic that I would come to love the group's recent album,
Change Or Die.
Updated June 26, 1996 by Joar Grimstvedt joarg@hsr.no