Moog Indigo

In the early 1970s, after recording the album The Happy Moog in collaboration with American composer Harry Breuer and the album Switched-On Santa with Sy Mann, Jean-Jacques Perrey left the United States to return to France and begin composing songs for the album Moog Indigo, released that same year. Some of the songs on the album were recorded by Breuer, a musician who had collaborated on the previous album The Happy Moog in 1969, and composers such as Pat Prilly, Andy Badale, and Jerry Herman.

The album contains a total of 12 songs, and although most of these songs were recorded for this album, two of them named "Country Rock Polka" and "Passport to the Future" were previously recorded prior to this album, whose original recordings are in a single Passport to the Future from the year 1969 with the label "Astor". On the other hand, more than 6 songs on the album are versions and musical arrangements of songs, both from Classical music (4) and Pop music (2). The first is the fifth track, which is a version of the interlude Flight of the bumblebee by the Russian composer Rimsky Korsakov, for this song it was used sounds of Bees and the hum tones were modified and arranged in a certain way for the song, according to Perrey this process took 46 long hours.[2] The second is the song "Gossipo Perpetuo", which is a cover of Moto Perpetuo writtren by the Italian composer Niccolo Paganini. [3]

The third is "The elephant never forgets", which is a version of the "Turkish March" belonging to the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, [4] the fourth is "18th Century Puppet", based on a tune named "Romance Andante" by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The fifth is the eleventh track, which is a cover of the 1964 song "Hello Dolly", [5] [1] and the sixth is the last track "Passport to the Future" is a versión of the 1967 song "Seuls su Monde" by Mireille Mathieu.

The cover shows five women on a blue background with white and yellow fabrics on top of their heads. This album has other covers such as one of a release edition of the album distributed by Vanguard, record company of the year 1949, this album also has another cover that is from its re-release of 1972 distributed in United Kingdom by the Vanguard record company founded in 1949, this cover shows a pair of pipes connected to each other.

The album was released in 1970 in various countries such as France, (Perrey's native country) United States and Canada in Vinyl, LP

Notes: The 2002 release contains all 12 original songs from the Moog Indigo album, and includes remixes of the songs "E.V.A." by Fatboy Slim and "Flight of the Bumblebee" from the compilation album "The Out Sound From Way In".

Five songs from this album titled "Gossipo Perpetuo", "Country Rock Polka", The Elephant Never Forgets, "18th Century Puppet" and the cover of Hello Dolly was used in the programs of the mexican comedian Chespirito, of which four themes they were used as background theme in some episodes and Sketches of programs by Chespirito.

• "Gossipo Perpetuo" was used in a chapter called "The balloons and the scissors" of the 1973 program El Chavo del 8
• "Country rock polka" was used for an appetizer of "Los caquitos" from the Don Ramon Carpintero (in English "Don Ramon Carpenter") chapter of 1972.
• "18th Century Puppet" was used two times, the first was in an appetizer by Doctor Chapatin called "Sick for Convenience" from the chapter "Los Vagos del Barrio" by Chapulin Colorado and the second time was in an appetizer called "El Mosco es Algo Tosco" from 1972 belonging to the program Chespirito.
• The cover from Hello Dolly was used in the sketch titled "Un encuentro en el parque" ("A meeting in the park" in English).

In 1973 the band the Ventures composed a arrangement from the song "Passport to the Future", titled "Skylab", "Gossipo Perpetuo" was used for the intro of the Swedish comedy program Anders och Måns, [8] a series that aired on television between 2003 and 2004. Some parts of the cover of Hello Dolly) was sampled in the songs "La Theorie du Tonton" of "La Remeur" in 2003 and in the song "Warrios" of 2004 composed by Fat Jack, Madchild Prevail and Moka Only. Some parts of the song "Gossipo Perpetuo" was sampled in the song "A Fine Line" of Luke Vibert, also in a song of "Messer Für Frau Müller" of 1999, and in the song "Paraguayana" of "Babasónicos" from 1999.