JJ's Alive and Kickin' with his First Release in 30 Years! "Circus of Life" Released October 1, 2001 and at long last available in the USA

Finally released, our favorite recording of the past year, and one we have played probably a hundred times! Jean Jacques Perrey, of the famed Perrey and Kingsley duo of the '60s, is releasing his first record in 30 years: "Circus of Life." A living icon, Jean Jacques Perrey's futuristic mix of bleeps, chimes, organ, weird effects and funky beats have been sampled by many of hip-hop's established artists including Ice T, The Beastie Boys, House of Pain and Gang Starr.

"Circus of Life" bridges the gap between trip-hop, easy listening, pychedelia and funk, space-age electronics and out-and-out pop. Perrey himself describes the record as an "Electro-Pop-Easy-Listening-Music Record." The record was designed to delight the child in each of us and Perrey asserts his music "humoristic" and is designed to generate happiness which he believes is of the utmost important "in a very difficult period of the Earth age."

The album features 14 new tracks including Elephants Wedding March, La Funamble De L'Espace, and the Girl from Mill Valley. An introductory track by Cut Chemist, a huge fan of Perrey, is included. According to music historian Mickey McGowan, Circus of Life is, " a time machine sauntering back and forth twixt the roaring twenties and 2020 A.D., a menagerie of the old west, the Russian ballet, a pet shop at feeding time and rave at the dessert oasis."

Born in 1929, Jean Jacques Perrey is a native of France currently residing in Evian. His first introduction to music was at the age of four, when he received an accordion for Christmas. JJ taught himself music by ear. While studying medicine in France, he met George Jenny, the inventor of the Ondioline, and his life was changed forever. Perrey quit medical school-composer Charles Trenet, guitarist Django Reinhardt, and his unique style of electronic music gained the attention of Jean Cocteau, Edith Piaf, Robert Moog and even Walt Disney. Perrey's releases include Musique Electronique du Cosmos (1961) The In Sound from Way Out, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations, The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound, and Moog Indigo. Perrey's track "Baroque Howdown" was selected as the theme for the "Main Street Electrical Parade" at Disneyland (US, Japan and Euro) and Disney World and he created other well-known tracks including "Flight of the Bumble Bee" with live bees and the DJ floor-filling classic "E.V.A.'"