Waiting for Cousteau

En attendant Cousteau is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor. The title is a reference to the play Waiting for Godot. Originally, Jarre intended to call it 'Cousteau sur la plage', but it was changed at the last moment. A promotional tape contained this title. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. AllMusic described the album as "groundbreaking stuff", due to its stylistic differences from his other albums. The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts. En attendant Cousteau is divided into two distinct stylistic halves: the first three pieces titled "Calypso" and the title track, an ambient piece which was used in the soundtrack of a 1991 documentary entitled "Palawan: Le dernier refuge" by Cousteau and Jarre. However title track from documentary did not appear on En attendant Cousteau. The title track was also played at Jarre's exposition Concert d'images in Paris, 1989. According to a Jarre fan-magazine, it was created via an app on an Atari Mega-ST, on which Jarre programmed 16 starting notes. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_atte...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)