Top Secret

Marc Moulin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nettwerk Records
• ASIN: B00005QX5L
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #450,197 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Into The Dark

2. What?

3. Bottle

4. Theo

5. Organ

6. In My Room

7. Tenor

8. Day Fever

9. It's To Say

10. Feet

Editorial Reviews

If you like St. Germain, you will love Marc Moulin! --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Supercool with a refreshingly hard edge..., February 3, 2002

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nicjaytee (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Top Secret (Audio CD)

Drawing on three decades of jazz playing, Belgian born keyboardist Marc Moulin produces a funky mix of acid-jazz back beats, rolling organ & guitar licks and (thankfully sparse) electronically enhanced vocals, pushed well above the "comfortably pleasant" zone by strong compositions, clever arrangements and effortlessly tight musicianship (including some excellent sax & trumpet breaks) that give virtually all of the tracks the hard edge needed to draw you back for more. Similar to Saint Germain's "Tourist" but with a much stronger pure jazz feel, the album flows from start to finish and, while a couple of tracks come dangerously close, avoids falling into the boringly lush waters of "hotel lobby background music" that engulf too many of his contemporaries. Supercool, interesting & fun - a rare combination indeed!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slippery slope, May 29, 2007

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Drekbuster (Fairfax, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Top Secret (Audio CD)

I first heard the track "Organ" on a progressive (college) radio station while working Montreal. Very hooky groove, a bit trippy. Called the station, DJ had left, no playlist available. Then, as luck would have it, I heard it again on Radio Paradise (an Internet "radio station"), which, of course, posted the playlist online.

Short, inventive solos by the featured artists (among them Philip Catherine on electric guitar)cascade over tasteful yet solid rhythms. Vocalist Christa adds some cool refrains but Moulin features her singing more as a rhytmic instrument.

Highlights are "Into the Dark", "What" and the afore-mentioned "Organ". Call it what you will, but like all well-produced, well-performed cuts, these should find a place on your shelf (or I-POD)to be played when the mood suits the music.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VERY GOOD COPY, December 14, 2004

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Nacho Adame "Perico" (México, City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Top Secret (Audio CD)

MARC DOESN'T HAVE A VERY WELL DEFINED STYLE, IST SOUNDS, JAZZY, A LITTLE ELECTRONIC, BUT IF YOU DON'T PUT HIM IN THE SAME CONTEXT, OF SAINT GERMAIN, KEVIN YOST, OR KOOP, YOU REALLY WILL ENJOY IT, TAKE IT AS IT COMES.