Jean-Luc Ponty - Individual Choice

Label:

Polydor

Catalog#:

817 189-1

Format:

Vinyl, LP

Country:

France

Released:

1983

Genre:

Electronic, Jazz, Rock

Style:

Jazz-Rock, Experimental

Tracklist

A1	Computer Incantantions For World Peace	5:40
A2	Far From The Beaten Paths	5:58	X
	Bass - Randy D. Jackson*
A3	In Spiritual Love	7:00	X
	Programmed By [Rhythm Computer] - Jean-Luc Ponty Synthesizer [Minimoog] - George Duke
B1	Eulogy To Oscar Romero	2:34
B2	Nostalgia	5:00	X
	Organ - Jean-Luc Ponty
B3	Individual Choice	4:56	X
B4	In Spite Of All	5:57	X
	Bass - Randy D. Jackson* Guitar - Allan Holdsworth

Credits

Drums - Rayford Griffin (tracks: A2, B3, B4)
Keyboards [Bass] - Jean-Luc Ponty (tracks: A3, B2, B3)
Synthesizer - Jean-Luc Ponty (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B3)
Violin - Jean-Luc Ponty

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Review by Alain_Patrick Aug 19, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

A prolific composer capable of creating amazingly exiting music from his violin & synthesizer performances, Jean-Luc Ponty brought in this album a ground breaking masterpiece called "Computer Incantations For World Peace", whose synth melodies and chords full of emotion became what we call a reference for many electronic music producers since then.

On the same decade it was composed "Computer Incantations For World Peace" was sampled and used as a soundtrack such the one of an educational TV sery; most surprisingly, its main keyboard lines were used according to the ultra-expert Flavio Alberto on 'Underground Resistance - Journey Of The Dragons'.

Jean-Luc Ponty made in "Individual Choice" a beautiful compendium of ambient, moody and aesthetic compositions putting together the futuristic electronic lines with other instruments such as guitars, bass, drums and specially his personal trademark, the violin lines.