Jean-Jacques Perrey (January 20, 1929 – November 4, 2016) was a French ele… Read Full Bio ↴Jean-Jacques Perrey (January 20, 1929 – November 4, 2016) was a French electronic music producer and he was an early pioneer in the genre. He was a member of the electronic music duo Perrey & Kingsley.
An avant-gardist with sense of daftness, his name resounded throughout the land since the track "E.V.A." was remixed by Fatboy Slim. At the age of 76 he released a new album. Nowadays he is known as one of the creators of pop music.
Perrey was born in France in 1929. He was studying medicine in Paris when he met George Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline. Quitting medical school, Perrey travelled through Europe demonstrating this keyboard ancestor of the modern synthesizer. At the age of 30, Perrey relocated to New York, sponsored by Caroll Bratman, who built him an experimental laboratory and recording studio. Here he invented "a new process for generating rhythms with sequences and loops", utilising the environmental sounds of "musique concrète." With scissors, splicing tape, and tape recorders, he spent weeks piecing together a uniquely comique take on the future. Befriending Robert Moog, he became one of the first Moog synth musicians, creating "far out electronic entertainment". In 1965 Perrey met Gershon Kingsley, a former colleague of John Cage. Together, using Ondioline and Perrey's loops, they created two albums for Vanguard — The In Sound From Way Out (1966) and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (1967). Perrey and Kingsley collaborated on sound design for radio and television advertising. Perrey returned to France, composing for television, scoring for ballet and continuing medical research into therapeutic sounds for insomniacs.
The rap group Beastie Boys released an instrumental CD titled, as a tribute to Perrey & Kingsley, The In Sound From Way Out.
Most recently, Perrey had been collaborating with Seattle music/composer Dana Countryman, and they have released two CDs on Oglio Records, "The Happy Electropop Music Machine", and "Destination Space".
In 2010, his song "Chicken on the Rocks" was featured in an episode of "South Park".
His official website can be found at: http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com/
An avant-gardist with sense of daftness, his name resounded throughout the land since the track "E.V.A." was remixed by Fatboy Slim. At the age of 76 he released a new album. Nowadays he is known as one of the creators of pop music.
Perrey was born in France in 1929. He was studying medicine in Paris when he met George Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline. Quitting medical school, Perrey travelled through Europe demonstrating this keyboard ancestor of the modern synthesizer. At the age of 30, Perrey relocated to New York, sponsored by Caroll Bratman, who built him an experimental laboratory and recording studio. Here he invented "a new process for generating rhythms with sequences and loops", utilising the environmental sounds of "musique concrète." With scissors, splicing tape, and tape recorders, he spent weeks piecing together a uniquely comique take on the future. Befriending Robert Moog, he became one of the first Moog synth musicians, creating "far out electronic entertainment". In 1965 Perrey met Gershon Kingsley, a former colleague of John Cage. Together, using Ondioline and Perrey's loops, they created two albums for Vanguard — The In Sound From Way Out (1966) and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (1967). Perrey and Kingsley collaborated on sound design for radio and television advertising. Perrey returned to France, composing for television, scoring for ballet and continuing medical research into therapeutic sounds for insomniacs.
The rap group Beastie Boys released an instrumental CD titled, as a tribute to Perrey & Kingsley, The In Sound From Way Out.
Most recently, Perrey had been collaborating with Seattle music/composer Dana Countryman, and they have released two CDs on Oglio Records, "The Happy Electropop Music Machine", and "Destination Space".
In 2010, his song "Chicken on the Rocks" was featured in an episode of "South Park".
His official website can be found at: http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com/
Hold It Down
Jean-Jacques Perrey Lyrics
Call me
Call me anytime when you feel lonely
I won't tear appart the things you left me
Call me anytime before to go
So let the
River runs down on your face at night
Cause by the
By the morning winds will dry them all away
So let the
River runs but keep your head up high
Cause when the
When the night has gone then only comes the light
Hold me down
We were young
Singing clichés 'bout us never getting old
Hold me down
We were young
Writing songs about us never getting old
Hold me down
Hold me down
Lay down
Lay down beside me
Like we used to be
Glory days are gone and now we don't see
We crashed it into pieces long ago
So let the
River runs down on your face at night
Cause by the
By the morning winds will dry them all away
So let the
River runs but keep your head up high
Cause when the
When the night has gone then only comes the light
Hold me down
We were young
Singing clichés 'bout us never getting old
Hold me down
We were young
Writing songs about us never getting old
Hold me down
Hold me down
Hold me down
Hold me down
cbout us never getting old
Hold me down
Call me anytime when you feel lonely
I won't tear appart the things you left me
Call me anytime before to go
So let the
River runs down on your face at night
Cause by the
By the morning winds will dry them all away
So let the
Cause when the
When the night has gone then only comes the light
Hold me down
We were young
Singing clichés 'bout us never getting old
Hold me down
We were young
Writing songs about us never getting old
Hold me down
Hold me down
Lay down
Lay down beside me
Like we used to be
Glory days are gone and now we don't see
We crashed it into pieces long ago
So let the
River runs down on your face at night
Cause by the
By the morning winds will dry them all away
So let the
River runs but keep your head up high
Cause when the
When the night has gone then only comes the light
Hold me down
We were young
Singing clichés 'bout us never getting old
Hold me down
We were young
Writing songs about us never getting old
Hold me down
Hold me down
Hold me down
Hold me down
cbout us never getting old
Hold me down
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Kevin Ureta, Kevin Bonnouvrier, Jonathan Cagne
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