Tales - 2 Studio Albums (1998-2001)

Interstellar Memories (1998). Jean-Luc Herve Berthelot is a composer and teller of tales through his music. Following two previous albums exploring Celtic and Asian themes, Interstellar Memories leaves the globe entirely for a journey into deep space. Following in the traditions of Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, and Brian Eno, Berthelot employs keyboards, percussion, and treated voices to an atmospheric, filmic vision of the slowly tumbling beauty of the universe's most unexplored regions. Berthelot's electronic compositions are not Frankensteins of cobbled computer sequences. Berthelot performs the entire keyboard composition setting up all loops live through a digital delay line. Carefully and artistically constructed, the soundscapes of Tales are vivid and imaginative visions of, in this case, a single intergalactic voyage.

The Seskian Wars (2001). With The Seskian Wars, Jean-Luc H. Berthelot, also known as Tales, continues his exploration of traditional styles of electronic music. As the name he records under implies, these are sonic stories. Berthelot uses the music to weave a soundtrack to a non-existent movie, to tell a story through sound. In this case, it's a tale of great interstellar conflict, and the music is appropriately deep and spacey, evoking the feeling of distant galaxies and outer space vistas.

Tracklist:
01. (Symbols)
02. Gravitational Gate
03. The Leap In The Dark
04. Asteroids
05. Ankalerye's Terklands
06. (Symbols)
07. Aldebaran In Sight
08. Stonehenge Continuum
09. The Giant Ankaleryan Starship
10. Unknown Planet
11. (Symbols)
12. Flight Over Deneb Cygni
13. Millions Of Stars In Mind
14. (Symbols)

Total time: 59:34



Tracklist:
01. Sagitarius' Gate
02. Wreckage In Space
03. The Pirates' Order
04. Imperial Space Fleet
05. The Vashkan Rebellion
06. Speed-Raiders From Lysendraa
07. Eternal Warriors
08. The Seskian Wars (Credit Titles)
09. Untitled

Total time: 01:02:01