Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
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Free Music Review: Gloriously Splendid Album !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Of all the Electronic Music from that '70 period and leading up
to now, Jarre's stands the test of time. His orchestral approach to sounds and instruments, be they synthesized or sampled distinguishes him from most of yesterday's and today's brass.
How many trance, dance, techno... songs have we all heard that begin the same, have the same damn drum arrangement and even same
string/pad chord work, that's because today's synth nerds all need 200 synths just to make a simple bass line - with no musical theory knowledge, where as look at Jarre. He had around 8 synths and made the masterpieces that is Oxygene! Even his fellow musicians of the time Vangelis, Klaus Schulze all pioneered the way electronic music was made and communicated to the people, by using the minimum amount of instruments and maximum amount of creativity and knowledge!
Equinoxe to this day sounds fresh just as it did in 1978, one of the cool things Jarre does on both Oxygene and Equinoxe is treat
his left and right channels seperately, infact if you listen especially to Oxygene 2 and Equinoxe 4 there's difference between what you hear on the left channel compared to the right - which is the one that contains all the echo's and effects.
This makes his music sound fresh(As if it's been recorded today)
and great on stereo equipment.
Long Live Jarre.
Thanks for bringing to the world accesible ambience music fused with classy pop tunes and reaching 'extravaganza of a life time' levels at concerts - that have yet to be reached by others.
Free Music Review: Excellent !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent space music. The man really made this music accesible to the masses and we should recognize that to him. He did not invent electronic music as a lot of people think. To prove my point by 1976 Claus Schulze had already released: Irrlicht, Cyborg, Blackdance,Picture Music, Timewind and Tangerine Dream had already released: Electronic Meditation, Alpha Centauri, Zeit, Atem , Phaedra, Rubycon, Ricochet.Listeners that like the style of Equinoxe should also listen to those. Claus Schulze's "X" is also very close to this one along with Vangelis' Albedo and Spiral. I warn you that you will be surprised. I was. I thought that Jarre was the beginning and end of electronic music. Not true at all. In Oxygene and Equinoxe we find tremendous influences from Schulze's Picture Music and even more from Tangerine Dream's Phaedra and Rubycon. It is very interesting to explore how different ideas and sounds evolved in the cosmic music scene throughout the 70's.
All in all the music is groundbreaking, I think that Jarre really took the music one step further than the people I mentioned already. His sounds are more care free more ethereal and above all more TRANSPARENT.
Schulzes biosphere evolves in the wastelands of an unfriendly planet. Jarre's Equinoxe is the crystal clear water of a new promising world. Its really sad that Jarre's experiment did not last beyond his first 3 albums.
Equinoxe and Oxygene should belong to the collections of all serious listeners of electronic music. Great material.
Free Music Review: Transfixed and transported
Hit: 5 Stars
I was unfamiliar with Jarre or any electronic music until I took a flight from LA to San Francisco on a spring evening in '82. Airlines are not known for their audio systems, but with the little tubular earphones on I happened to turn the selector to the featured artist: Jean Michel Jarre. As I watched the sunset EQUINOXE began streaming into my head and the sensation was unbelievable. I had never felt so relaxed and serene. It was one of those moments you live for hoping, yet knowing, it can never be repeated. I wanted to tell the people sitting in front of me, behind me, but I couldnt move. I couldnt miss a moment of the music that seemed to be written for that very sunset I was viewing. After we landed I went straight to the record store and purchase the 2 cassettes: Equinoxe and Oxygene and then went to another store and got Magnetic Fields. They, along with the Mannheim Steamroller's "Fresh Aire" series (discovered shortly there after) have been my favorites for years and they never seem out of date. Jarre knew better than to try to make electronic music sound acoustic. No synth horns or synth guitars. Instead he experimented and let the music do what it was meant to do. Let it do things that strings couldnt do and horns couldnt do. What he gave us was origional, etherical and mesmerizing. BRAVO JMJ
Free Music Review: And the magic begins...Best synth album ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
Who has made the best synth album ever? Well, some would say Schulze, some would say Kraftwerk, some Tangerine Dream and some Jean Michel Jarre. I guess that the question can never be answered - it's a matter of taste really. One thing is for sure though. When it comes to the ability of making atmospheric soundscapes and cathcy themes, Jarre beats them all. Equinoxe was released back in 1978 and synth albums from that period often sound outdated because of the progress with computers and synths in general, but Equinoxe will never become outdated. Jarre has a unique eye for detail and even though I've listened to this album hundreds of times I still find new things in the music that I haven't heard before. The album is complete, meaning that it never loses the atmospheric feel. The music isn't just in the room when you listen to it - it surrounds and embraces the room. Many have tried to recreate the feel of this album and all of them have failed miserably, no one has ever come close - except for Jarres own Oxygene. The "hit" songs of this album would be Equinoxe 4,5 and 7. To me there can be no doubt. This is the best album ever and you owe it to yourself to listen to it. If you don't belive me just read the rest of the reviews.Free Music Review: My first
Hit: 5 Stars
I can still remember the first time I heard this album - I was simply blown away! I guess I was about 13 years old, and an older dude in my class listened to Jarre on his walkman. You could hear the bleeps and bloops oozing from his headphone from miles away!
I bought the album on vinyl and listened to it until the needle had to be replaced. And once I got the album on CD years later, I was amazed how clear the sound was...
This was the album that introduced me to Jarre's music, and that has been my favorite Jarre-album ever since. Most people like Oxygene best, but I like this one. I like listening to it in a completely dark room, with headphones on. I imagine that I'm somewhere in a kind of magical place, witnessing the sunrise. I can't help it, the music is capturing. And I always feel sad when the last song on the album starts...
If you aren't familiar with Jarre's music, start with this record, or with Oxygene - and then move on through Jarre's other albums, like a journey through the musical universe of Jean Michel Jarre.