Deserted Palace is an album

Album

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 of experimental

Experimental music

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 instrumental

Instrumental

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 electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music

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 composed and produced by Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

, and released on Sam Fox Records in 1972. It is Jarre's very first album, released four years before his breakthrough album, Oxygène

Oxygene

Oxygène is an album of instrumental electronic music composed, produced, and performed by the French composer Jean Michel Jarre. It was first released in France in December 1976, on Disques Dreyfus with license to Polydor. The album's international release was in summer 1977...

. It was an album of library music

Production music

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, intended for use in television program

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mes, adverts

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, film

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s, and so forth. It has not been subsequently re-released, although it is widely available as a bootleg

Bootleg recording

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. On 30 May 2011, several tracks from this album were officially released on the Essentials & Rarities

Essentials & Rarities

Essentials & Rarities is a compilation album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 2011. The double CD set consists of two distinctive CDs: Essentials, which is a compilation of Jean Michel Jarre's most famous work, and Rarities, which has tracks made before his ground-breaking album Oxygène.Most of...

compilation album.

Side one

1. "Poltergeist Party" – 2:16
2. "Music Box Concerto" – 2:46
3. "Rain Forest Rap Session" – 1:44
4. "A Love Theme For Gargoyles" – 1:15
5. "Bridge Of Promises" – 3:19
6. "Exasperated Frog" – 0:51
7. "Take Me To Your Leader" – 2:00
8. "Deserted Palace" – 2:27
9. "Pogo Rock" – 1:08

Side two

1. "Wind Swept Canyon" – 7:44
2. "The Abominable Snowman" – 0:56
3. "Iraqi Hitch Hiker" – 2:32
4. "Free Floating Anxiety" – 2:19
5. "Synthetic Jungle" – 1:43
6. "Bee Factory" – 1:00

Personnel

• Jean Michel Jarre – ARP
  ARP Instruments, Inc.
  ARP Instruments, Inc. was an American manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. Best known for its line of synthesizers that emerged in the early 1970s, ARP closed its doors in 1981 due to financial difficulties...
  
  , EMS Synthi AKS
  EMS Synthi AKS
  The EMS Synthi A, first available in May 1971, and then in March 1972 a version of it with a built-in keyboard and sequencer, the EMS Synthi AKS, a portable modular analog synthesiser made by EMS of England. Most notable for its patch pin matrix, its functions and internal design are similar to the...
  
  , VCS 3 synthesizer, Farfisa organ