Waiting for Cousteau (French title: En attendant Cousteau) is an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 1990 on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday June 11, 1990. The title of the album is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. The album has been acclaimed by critics as one of Jarre's greatest works, due to its extreme stylistic differences ...
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Waiting for Cousteau (French title: En attendant Cousteau) is an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 1990 on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday June 11, 1990. The title of the album is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. The album has been acclaimed by critics as one of Jarre's greatest works, due to its extreme stylistic differences from his other albums, especially the title track, which Allmusic describes as a "groundbreaking stuff".
The title track is a composition in the ambient style and an edited version of the music he produced for Concert d'Images, an exhibition which contained photographs and selected objects from Jarre's concerts. The original plan was to release the album edit of the track as a promo CD single, but those plans were abandoned. On vinyl record and cassette tape the title track was edited to only 20 minutes due to the lack of space on the formats....
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