Customer Reviews

Fables

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I was introduced to Jean Luc Ponty's music with the album
Open Mind.I love the trancy, moving, eretheral sound that seem
to transport you to another place and time.My favorite cuts
are Infinite pusuit and Elephants in love.All of the album
is simply amazing.His futuristic sound and style was way
ahead of his time!

I've been liking Jean-Luc Ponty for a long time on Cassette and LPs. While shopping at 2nd hand book store I spotted Fables in their cassette rack. I needed something to jam in the car so I bought it in this old format. IT HAS NOT LEFT MY CAR except briefly when I brought it to inside tape deck to review for an Amazon Cd purchase. My opinion, one of JLPs best. When I am stacking fresh CDs, I spin Individual Choice on the turntable for that brief downtime. As a writer not overloading WMP is helpful, so I have a boombox and a few cassettes (Open Mind & A Gift of Time) nearby to run that is not intrusive as I work. My foray to another place brought me to Amazon to catch some more discs. Cool huh?

This album completed a trilogy for me. Get this, Civilized Evil, and Open Mind and you have some classic Ponty. Not that these were the only good things he's done - but they really do give you a good spread of work.

Nothing bad to say about this album. It's Ponty straight from his Civilized Evil period.

In which Jean-Luc Ponty completely runs out of ideas. This is perhaps the worst of JLP's 80s efforts, comparable to Individual Choice for vapid inanity. It's hard to believe this is the same recording artist who put together the sublime Imaginary Voyage, Enigmatic Oceans, and Aurora. Ugh. A real stinker, from start to finish.

The first JLP album I got(and still his best) was the individual choice. That has the famous 'computer incantation' and soloing by Holdsworth, one of my favorite guitarist. This album(Fables) sounds quite similar but lacks many things IC has. Anyway, I prefer these electronic stuffs to his early fusion efforts(except another great album, enigmatic ocean with Holdsworth and other strong rhythm section members). I'd say this is a good album but if you are interested in his music in this period, get Individual choice. IC is much better than fables. But still it is very listenable. BTW, I got 'Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy' by Return to forever with Fables. What a difference! It is damn hard music for me. But Ponty? Easy?