Jean Philippe Goude

Good stuff, definitely something a Weidorje/Zeuhl fan would enjoy.  Thanks for that.

I just bought the recent CD of his work a few months ago and found it sprodically impressive! What was the reason for his rejection, I wonder?!

Hey Logan! The album I bought was called `Drones', just saw it on one of Greg Walker's Syn-phonic new release newsletters and thought I'd take a chance on it. Although it was a little inconsistent, flitting back and forth between Zeuhl and electronic pieces, I greatly enjoyed it, and I would have thought either genre would have been sufficient to place him in!

Shame, I would have really enjoyed giving it several spins to piece a review together for it!

Good luck, Logan! You seem very passionate about him being added to the Archives, so I hope Goude can get placed somewhere! Definately deserves it, no doubt about it.

Should he end up authorised and approved, I'll whip up a review of `Drones' straight away!   

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Good luck, Logan! You seem very passionate about him being added to the Archives, so I hope Goude can get placed somewhere! Definately deserves it, no doubt about it. Should he end up authorised and approved, I'll whip up a review of `Drones' straight away!

I was very passionate about it, but the whole thing left me feeling a little discombobulated to be honest.  I didn't do a  good job of discussing the issue with the Suggest New bands team, or making the case, and think I came across as too pushy.  I decided to wash my hands of it before.

I do think that ZART should reconsider since I know that at least one reject  vote was a mistake, based on myspace, and not based on Drones and Jeunes Annees (don't know if Jeunes Annees was ever considered), and that person later supported it but didn't change the vote at Progfreak.  JRF had a split vote, one yes and one no which automatically rejected him (but I dodn't know what was evaluated).

A problem with suggestions is, sometimes, the wrong material being evaluated, so I don't think that rejections should be cast in stone when not all of the material (or the wrong material) was evaluated.  It's also a reason why I think it best for the evaluations to be really spelled out, rather than just a vote.  When I was on team, I liked to share my thoughts in the Suggest New Bands thread when it came that way.  That way I could also discuss it with the suggester who might point me in the right direction, and take their thoughts into account.  That's not always a good idea, since it can lead to pointless bickering, but I never had a problem with it, and liked to involve the suggester in the process.  I'm not saying that was the case here, since I think the suggestion originally went straight through the ZART team's thread, so just generally speaking.


Edited by Logan - October 24 2012 at 12:15

As usual my threads get thrown into a forum which no one checks out.