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Jean-Philippe Goude is an extremely talented keyboardist from France who has had a lot of training and it shows. Probably best known for being part of that Zeuhl super-group WEIDORJE who released their lone album in 1978. He was one of two keyboardists on there with Patrick Gauthier. So a couple of years before that Goude released his first solo album in 1976 called "Jeunes Annees" with drummer Olivier Cole. And while Goude is an accomplished keyboardist playing mostly synths and piano here, this does come off as being one dimensional.

How much can you do with a duo? Well plenty I suppose but this record is not an example of that. There is one track that stood out though called "Ego Sum Pauper" at 3 1/2 minutes. The drums and electric piano had my attention right away, the synths will lead around 2 minutes in. There's a lot of synths on here along with jazzy piano. I would rather recommend checking out his "Drones" album from 1980 where he gets a lot of help from his former WEIDORJE mates but also from Klaus Blasquiz, Didier Batard and Francois Auger.

A good album but the best was yet to come.

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