“When I got them out of storage and played them again, I realised something that even I had forgotten - that these analogue instruments are unique,” Jarre says. “Choosing to use these old synths instead of their modern equivalents is not a retro thing, it is not nostalgia, it is because technological progress has almost nothing to do with the quality of the instrument.A violinist playing today would rather play a Stradivarius than any other instrument - a violin made 400 years ago. Many guitarists would say that the best electric guitars ever made were Gibson Les Pauls and Fender Telecasters from the 1950s or early 1960s. It is the same with these analogue synths.”
You can find the full interview on the Times Online.
glad to hear that. i tried to like "teo & tea", but couldn't. it's plastic, and i think it was intended to be like that.
ReplyDeleteJust too bad that most interviews in the press tend to print the same story, I've read this a thousand times now in various papers and magazines, but still nice to hear that Jarre is going through a revival, now let's hope a truly new work with the same instruments is going to be released in the not so distant future...
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