{"id":20859,"date":"2023-08-03T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=20859"},"modified":"2023-08-03T20:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:38:54","slug":"jj-chardeaus-rock-opera-magical-music-man-adds-a-second-album-with-ombres-and-lumieres-feat-members-of-king-crimson-xtc-spirit-supertramp-elo-and-others-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2023\/08\/03\/jj-chardeaus-rock-opera-magical-music-man-adds-a-second-album-with-ombres-and-lumieres-feat-members-of-king-crimson-xtc-spirit-supertramp-elo-and-others-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Chardeau\u2019s Rock Opera \u201cMagical Music Man\u201d Adds a Second Album with Ombres And Lumi\u00e8res Feat. Members of King Crimson, XTC, Spirit, Supertramp, ELO and Others &#8211; OUT NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Featuring Dave Gregory (XTC), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Danny Seraphine and Jason Scheff (Chicago), Mark Andes (Spirit), John McFee (Doobie Brothers), Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra), John Helliwell (Supertramp), John Jorgenson (The Hellecasters), Eric Troyer (Electric Light Orchestra),\u00a0<\/em>Jimmy Haun (Arc of Light)<br><br><em>Ombres &amp; Lumi\u00e8res (Shadows &amp; Lights)<\/em>\u00a0is the brand new album by Chardeau, a.k.a. The Magical Musical Man. The French artist and composer continues his dreamy and musical trip around the world, started with the previous\u00a0<em>In Terra Cognita<\/em>\u00a0? in 2019.\u00a0<br><br>This second part (out of 4 planned volumes) is dedicated to Western Europe in 14 tracks, mostly instrumental, served by around fifty musicians, vocalists and guests. The production of this new album lasted three years, in conditions somewhat disturbed by the Covid pandemic and its effects. But the result is miraculous.\u00a0<br><br>Among the guests who have participated to Ombres &amp; Lumi\u00e8res: Danny Seraphine and Jason Scheff (Chicago), Mark Andes (Spirit), John McFee (Doobie Brothers), Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra), John Helliwell (Supertramp), John Jorgenson (The Hellecasters), Eric Troyer (Electric Light Orchestra), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Jimmy Haun (Arc of Life) and Dave Gregory (XTC).<br><br>JJ Chardeau said of the release:\u00a0<em>\u201cWith the help of my friends I\u2019ve been able to continue my magical musical journey with this second album. The love for the &#8216;In Terra Cognita?&#8217; album from fans has made it all worthwhile and I hope everyone will enjoy this new album!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To purchase:<\/strong>Amazon CD:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/JJOandMcd\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/geni.us\/JJOandMcd<\/a><br>Apple Music:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/JJam\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/geni.us\/JJam<\/a><br>Spotify:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/JJsp\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/geni.us\/JJsp<\/a><br>The album is also available from Cherry Red directly:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/artist\/jj-chardeau\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/artist\/jj-chardeau\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring Dave Gregory (XTC), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Danny Seraphine and Jason Scheff (Chicago), Mark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[3175,125,1998],"class_list":["post-20859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-jj-chardeau","tag-prog","tag-rock-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20861,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859\/revisions\/20861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}