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En attendant Cousteau
En attendant Cousteau
Studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre
Released	11 June 1990
Studio	Coral Sound studio, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Croissy studio, Paris
Length	1:08:57
Label	Disques Dreyfus
Producer	Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

En attendant Cousteau (English title: Waiting for 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 (Cousteau on the beach)', but it was changed at the last moment. A promotional tape contained this title.^[2]

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.^[1] The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts.^[3]

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 two tracks from that documentary did not appear on the final album.^[4]

The title track was also played at Jarre's exposition Concert d'images in Paris, 1989. According to a Jarre fan-magazine,^[5] it was created via an app on an Atari Mega-ST,^[6] on which Jarre programmed 16 starting notes. He apparently got the idea from the book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. He denied it in a later interview, claiming all notes are actually played by hand, noting however that the track includes some time-stretched samples mixed into the background.^[7]^[8]

Jarre performed the album for about 2.5 million people at the Paris La Défense concert on 14 july 1990, featuring The Amoco Renegades, a steel-drum band from Trinidad and Tobago.

Track listing

CD edition

All music is composed by Jean-Michel Jarre

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Calypso Part 1"	8:24
2.	"Calypso Part 2"	7:10
3.	"Calypso Part 3 (Fin de Siècle)" (End of the Century)	6:28
4.	"En attendant Cousteau" (Waiting for Cousteau)	46:55
Total length:		1:08:57

Vinyl and cassette edition

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Calypso Part 1"	8:24
2.	"Calypso Part 2"	7:10
3.	"Calypso Part 3 (Fin de Siècle)"	6:28

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"En attendant Cousteau"	22:00
Total length:		44:02

Personnel

Personnel listed in album liner notes:^[9]

Jean-Michel Jarre – keyboards
The Amoco Renegades – steel drums
Guy Delacroix – bass
Christophe Deschamps – drums
Michel Geiss – keyboards
Dominique Perrier – keyboards

Charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[10]	19
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[11]	11
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[12]	27
Spanish Albums (AFYVE)^[13]	37
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[14]	22
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[15]	21
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[16]	27
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[17]	11
UK Albums (OCC)^[18]	14

Certifications and sales


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)^[20]	2× Gold	550,000^[19]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)^[21]	Gold	50,000^{^}
Summaries
Worldwide		1,550,000^[19]
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ ^a ^b En attendant Cousteau at AllMusic
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^ "UK Music charts". EveryHit.com. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
^ "Aerozonejmj". aerozonejmj.fr. 2019-03-03. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^ Conductor Of The Masses - Issue 5. UK: Conceptual Publishing. July 1991. p. 30.
^ AMI (Algorithmic Musical Instrument) By Cadenza Software. However, likely the name should be ACT (Algorithmic Compositional Tool), which "generates random musical output, based on user-defined notes, which can be controlled in real time using a GEM interface or a MIDI source", as listed on https://www.ataritoday.com/extra/.
^ "Aerozonejmj". aeorozonejmj.fr. 2019-01-19. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
^ Pettersen, Hogne Bø (18 November 2018). "The Journey to Equinoxe Infinity – Part 3: Paying the Piano Player to Stop Playing". The Domino Elf. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
^ Waiting For Cousteau (booklet). Disques Dreyfus/Polyodr. 1990. 843 614-2.
^ "Austriancharts.at – Jean Michel Jarre – En attendant Cousteau" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^
Finnish charts:
- Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 168. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
|- "Discography Jean-Michel Jarre". finnishcharts.com. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Jean Michel Jarre – Waiting For Cousteau" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
^ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
^ "Swedishcharts.com – Jean Michel Jarre – En attendant Cousteau". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "Swisscharts.com – Jean Michel Jarre – En attendant Cousteau". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Jean Michel Jarre – En attendant Cousteau" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Jean Michel Jarre – En attendant Cousteau". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b Fitzmaurice, Larry (22 May 1993). "Around The French Companies". Billboard. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ "French album certifications – J-Michel JARRE – En attendant Cousteau" (in French). InfoDisc. Select J-MICHEL JARRE and click OK.
^ Sólo Éxitos 1959–2002 Año A Año: Certificados 1979–1990 (in Spanish). Iberautor Promociones Culturales. 2005. ISBN 8480486392.