Enigmatic Ocean

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Released September 1, 1977 Length 40:06 Release date 1 September 1977 Label Atlantic Records		Recorded June - July, 1977 Artist Jean-Luc Ponty Producer Jean-Luc Ponty Genre Jazz fusion

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Enigmatic Ocean is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty, released in 1977. It reached #1 on the Billboard Jazz album chart in 1977.

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Track listing

All songs by Jean-Luc Ponty.

"Overture" – 0:47
"The Trans-Love Express" – 3:59
"Mirage" – 4:53
"Enigmatic Ocean - Part I" – 2:23
"Enigmatic Ocean - Part II" – 3:35
"Enigmatic Ocean - Part III" – 3:42
"Enigmatic Ocean - Part IV" – 2:26
"Nostalgic Lady" – 5:24
"The Struggle of the Turtle to the Sea - Part I" – 3:35
"The Struggle of the Turtle to the Sea - Part II" – 3:34
"The Struggle of the Turtle to the Sea - Part III" – 6:03

Personnel

Jean-Luc Ponty – electric violin, five-string electric violin, violectra, bells, grand piano on Nostalgic Lady

Allan Holdsworth – lead electric guitar

Daryl Stuermer – lead and rhythm electric guitar

Allan Zavod – organ, synthesizer, electric piano, grand piano, clavinet

Ralphe Armstrong – electric basses, fretless bass

Steve Smith – drums and percussion

All music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Jean-Luc Ponty (from the original album cover)

Solos

(2) : JL Ponty (violin) & D. Stuermer (guitar)

(3) : JL Ponty (violin) & A. Zavod (synthesizer)

(5) : JL Ponty (violin), D. Stuermer (guitar), A. Zavod (synthesizer) & A. Holdsworth (guitar)

(6) : A. Holdsworth (guitar) & JL Ponty (violin)

(8) : JL Ponty (violin) & A. Holdsworth (guitar)

(9) : A. Zavod (synthesizer)

(10) : JL Ponty (violectra)

(11) : R. Armstrong (bass-straight and with devices), D. Stuermer (guitar), S. Smith (drums) & A. Holdsworth (guitar)

Songs

1Overture0:47
2The Trans-Love Express3:56
3Mirage4:54

References

Enigmatic Ocean Wikipedia

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