Written in Cannes during the 1984 MIDEM (a major international event for the music industry), “Ecoute le Son du Soleil” reflects the style Yannick Chevalier coined for his radio broadcasts, club shows and live sets, mixing singing with jingles and an MC-like voice.
Four of his jingles can be heard in “Ecoute le Son du Soleil”. They were created with one of the very first harmonisers (Publison’s DHM 89). This effect, called “childlike” by Chevalier himself, is a virtual voice, like that of a character or a puppet answering a ventriloquist, which he used as cues in his club and radio shows.
Yannick Chevalier, the founder of the first school for DJs and the author of Profession Disc Jockey, is also a sound designer, a director of TV and radio ads, an author of library music, and a sound engineer. He is the head of Point 12, studios specialized in post-production for the cinema, the TV and the radio.
By now, Yannick Chevalier has produced 48 jingle albums and 30 sound effect or sound design records, all available on
www.jingles.fr.