REMINISCENCES

Bertrand LOREAU is a French composer and musician, who's been an active recording artist since the early '90s. He was trained in classical piano as a child in the '60s, but during the '70s he got more and more intrigued by keyboards in general and the early electronic synthesizers in particular. After attending a Klaus Schulze concert in 1977, an artist he's still a great fan of, he decided to venture out himself some day to create music in a similar vein. When he and Musea Records discovered each other in 1992 he was given the opportunity to do just that, and his most recent effort "Reminiscences" is his seventh full-length release to be issued on the Musea Records sublabel Dreaming.

While the contents of this compilation of Loreau's oldest material may not be regarded as cutting edge electronic music by the standards of the time when they were made, those intrigued by meditative, new age tinged music of the electronic variety should find "Reminiscences" to be a nice addition to their collection. And those who truly enjoy the sound of vintage electronic instruments will probably have added this effort to their list of future purchases prior to reaching this conclusion.