Bingo! I've found the ultimate Techno-pop or Synth-pop music. I discovered this album through YouTube as well as Apple Music, but finding the actual vinyl is either difficult or expensive. By luck, I found the record, at a reasonable price and this is clearly a mini-album that needs to be fully reissued to the masses. Approximately 20 minutes long, it will be the best 20 minutes in one's life.
There are records that speak to me in a favorable manner, and then there are recordings that hit me like a gentle slap on the cheek, and Jacno's album is such a presence in my life. I can't possibly fathom someone disliking this record. Incredibly french whatever that means to the listener, but it conveys such a lightness, but with a tinge of sadness. Serge Gainsbourg is always sad to me, on the other hand, someone like Jacques Dutronc is happy-go-lucky, until he reached his later years. Jacno is somewhere between the two artists, and his solo and recordings with Ellie Medeiros (Ms. Brian De Palma) as well as with his early new-wave/punk band Stinky Toys, was a journey through French pop music culture.
Part of the charm of these recordings is that it's very low-fi in its approach and sound. One can picture Jacno smoking away ( he did die from cancer) and be working on these tracks by himself. Most of the record is instrumental, with Ellie singing vocals on one song "Anne Cherchait L' Amour." It's interesting to note that this mini-album came out at the end of an era (1979) and there is an innocence or the sense of loss. Still, "Jacno" is a masterpiece.
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