Life Enigma

Artist: Jean Luc Ponty
Label: Jlp Productions
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 806893000123
EAN: 0806893000123
ASIN: B00005N8ZD

Release Date: 2001-08-21

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Tracks:

Two Thousand-One Years Ago
Signals From Planet Earth
The Infinite Human Caravan
Lonely Among All
Firmament
Pizzy Cat
Life Enigma
Even The Sun Will Die
Love At Last Sight
And Life Goes On

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Customer Reviews:

jean luc ponty's best!!.......2007-03-15

I've been a fan of ponty since the late seventies from wrvr in new york.
This is his best and for jean luc, a peerless musician, that's saying quite a bit. All the tracks are absorbing but the best on this cd are signals from planet earth, firmament(my favorite), even the sun will die
(my second favorite), love at last sight, and life goes on. He usually has dramatic depth coupled with a sense of triumph or transformation in the same piece. I can listen and appreciate music like this as I listen with my life experience and my being, not just intellectually with my ears.

Life Enigma.......2007-03-15

Not my favorite Ponty, but good nonetheless. Even The Sun Will Die is my favorite track followed by And Life Goes On. Great for a lazy day around the house or for a long drive.

Stunning.......2003-08-23

Welcome back, Jean!

A long-time fan from the days of Upon the Wings of Music, Jean-Luc drifted away from me about the time of Open Mind, as he drifted away from his primary instrument, the violin. With this, his most recent studio effort, and Live at Semper Oper, his most recent live release, we have reconnected.

Life Engima combines the best of Jean-Luc's lyricism on the violin, and his keyboard sequencing from The Gift of Time period, into a seamless, soaring sonic wall of music that is truely transcendental.

I have been playing this disc about two weeks now. Its melodies are haunting and it grows on you. Fans who, like me, loved Jean-Luc's soaring melodies from Aurora, Enigmatic Ocean, Cosmic Messenger are going to fall in love all over again.

Too Smooth.......2003-08-12

Too smooth. It almost puts you in a trance. I've had this CD for over a year, and I still can't recall one song by it's title. The music is good. The songs probably would have been allot better had they not been on the same CD. To much of the same thing can be bad no matter how good it is. I'm a long time Ponty fan going all the way back to his days with Zappas'Mothers oF Invention with George Duke. The one thing Ponty was never guilty of is sameness.

World class musicianship-The Discerned Should Not Apprehence.......2003-07-31

The first three tracks offer up a plethora of JLP's craftwork and the band intertwine seamlessly.Great speakers make the listen superb! Just warming up he goes right into some old school,fusion-like jazz and on the title track he brings on the mellow organ and strings. He has his own studio and you might think by now he would use some bells and whistles but JL surges with his pure tried-and-true artistry and the last track reminds me of a Brazillian affluence. I listen to this frequent and repeatedly. Oh and---they've come a long way here! I bought my copy USED so the price was very right, I'm VERY PLEASED as YOU WILL BE with the purchase of "LIFE ENIGMA." p.s. I want to hear JLP and STING perform collaboratively and I long for both instruments to be prommenent.

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