Jean-Joel Barbier
Erik Satie Album
Music Interior (Japan) 1984
JMI-28006 (LP) w/obi, insert.
sleeve : VG+(dirts.)
media : EX+/EX+(some slightly surface noises.)
This album was released in 1984, featuring Jean-Joel Barbier, who is internationally acclaimed as a performer of Sati's works, performing the famous score left by Erik Sati, the French composer who conceived "Furniture Music," which greatly influenced Brian Eno's conception of ambient music. From the Music Interior series, which produced some of the most iconic ambient music of the 1980s, including Seigen Ono, Ichiko Hashimoto, and Masahide Sakuma. Haruomi Hosono selected the tracks and the album contains a variety of well-known songs, but "Trois Gnossiennes" (A1) with its unique lyricism and melancholy and "Trois Gymnopedies" (A4) with its melody and chords placed gently on a gentle time axis are still wonderful. All of the pieces are piano solos, but this is the best way to get acquainted with the works that are considered to be the starting point of ambient music/music interior.
A1 : Trois Gnossiennes
A4 : Trois Gymnopedies