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Jean-Michel Jarre
Deserted Palace
Transversales Disques - Cat No: TRS33
- updated:2025-08-13
World-renowned synthesizer master Jean Michel Jarre's "Deserted Palace" — his debut album and one of the most unusual hidden gems of his career, composed and performed in 1972 while he was a member of G.R.M. (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) — gets its first official remastered LP reissue via Transversales Disques.
Track List
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A1. Poltergeist Party
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A2. Music Box Concerto
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A3. Rain Forest Rap Session
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A4. A Love Theme For Gargoyles
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A5. Bridge Of Promises
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A6. Exasperated Frog
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A7. Take Me To Your Leader
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A8. Deserted Palace
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A9. Pogo Rock
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B1. Wind Swept Canyon
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B2. The Abominable Snowman
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B3. Iraqi Hitch-Hiker
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B4. Free Floating Anxiety
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B5. Synthetic Jungle
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B6. Bee Factory
Transversales Disques proudly presents the first official LP reissue of "Deserted Palace", studio album written & performed by Jean Michel Jarre in 1972, during his work experience at G.R.M. (Groupe de Recherches Musicales).
In 1971, an order was placed with producer Francis Dreyfus to provide sound for public places such as airports and libraries. He decided to pass the project on to Jean-Michel, who had recently been signed by his record company.
These fifteen tracks are made with only two synthesizers (EMS VCS3 & Farfisa organ) in an experimental and very minimal style.
"It was a crazy album, totally homemade, with rhythms that I made in my student room, with a minimum of equipment and at the same time electronic sounds that I stole from the GRM where I went at night after stealing the keys to the studios. It is a pirate record, in every sense of the word, in which we find what I did afterwards.” JMJ
Audio restored & remastered
In 1971, an order was placed with producer Francis Dreyfus to provide sound for public places such as airports and libraries. He decided to pass the project on to Jean-Michel, who had recently been signed by his record company.
These fifteen tracks are made with only two synthesizers (EMS VCS3 & Farfisa organ) in an experimental and very minimal style.
"It was a crazy album, totally homemade, with rhythms that I made in my student room, with a minimum of equipment and at the same time electronic sounds that I stole from the GRM where I went at night after stealing the keys to the studios. It is a pirate record, in every sense of the word, in which we find what I did afterwards.” JMJ
Audio restored & remastered
In 1971, producer Francis Dreyfus was commissioned to provide music for public spaces such as airports and libraries. He decided to hand the project over to Jean Michel Jarre, who had only recently signed with the label. The 15 tracks collected here were made entirely DIY using a bare minimum of gear — just two instruments, an EMS VCS3 and a Farfisa organ — resulting in an experimental, minimal, playful, crazy and intensely psychedelic electronic music record. A hugely important work for his later career as well. 15 tracks in all.
"This album is crazy, completely homemade, built from rhythms made in a student's room with minimal equipment and electronic sounds stolen from the GRM, where I would sneak in night after night after stealing the studio keys. This record is a pirate record in every sense, and you can hear in it what I would go on to do." — Jean-Michel Jarre (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)