Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe (1979) - €10,00

Équinoxe (English: Equinox) is the fourth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released in December 1978 on the Disques Dreyfus record label, with license to Polydor.

Jarre had developed his sound, employing more dynamic and rhythmic elements, particularly a greater use of sequencing on basslines. Much of this was achieved using custom equipment developed by his collaborator Michel Geiss. The album is presented as two suites of music, each consisting of 4 parts and taking up one side of the vinyl release of the album. The separate tracks on the record smoothly segue into each other to this effect.

As the follow-up album to Oxygene, Equinoxe offers the same mesmerizing affect, with rapid spinning sequencer washes and bubbling synthesizer portions all lilting back and forth to stardust scatterings of electronic pastiches. 

Using more than 13 different types of synthesizers, Jarre combines whirling soundscapes of multi-textured effects, passages, and sometimes suites to culminate interesting electronic atmospheres. Never repeating the same sounds twice, it is obvious that the science fiction hype of the late '70s played a large part in the making of this album. 

Computerized rhythms and keyboard-soaked transitions scurry by, replaced by even quicker, more illustrious ones soon after. There is always a pulsating beat or a fluttering tempo happening somewhere in each of the tracks, which are titled as a numbered sequence one to eight. Each track harbors its own energy and electronic fleetness, but none are identical in sound or pace. So much electronic color is added to every track that it is impossible to concentrate on any particular segment, resulting in waves of synth drowning the ears at high tide.

The album reached number 11 on the UK Album Chart and number 126 on the US Billboard 200 chart.

Side one

1.  Equinoxe Part 1  (2:15)  

2.  Equinoxe Part 2  (5:10)  

3.  Equinoxe Part 3  (5:35)  

4.  Equinoxe Part 4  (7:30)

Side two

1.  Equinoxe Part 5  (3:50)  

2.  Equinoxe Part 6  (3:30)  

3.  Equinoxe Part 7  (8:10)  

4.  Equinoxe Part 8  (5:00)

Notes

Release: 1978

Genre:  Electronic, Synth-pop

Format:  LP

Label:  Polydor Records

Catalog#  2344120

Vinyl:  VG

Cover:  VG

Prijs: €10,00

Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1976) - Lp

Side A
A1. Oxygene (Part I)  (7:40) 
A2. Oxygene (Part II)  (8:20) 
A3. Oxygene (Part III)  (2:50)

Side B
B1. Oxygene (Part IV)  (3:50) 
B2. Oxygene (Part V)  (11:10) 
B3. Oxygene (Part VI)  (5:55)


Release:  1976
Format:  LP
Genre:  Electronic
Label:  Polydor Records
Catalog#  2933207
Prijs:  €10,00

Vinyl:  Goed
Hoes:  Goed

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Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts In China (1982)

Artist:  Jean-Michel Jarre
Title:  The Concerts In China
Release:  1982
Format:  2 LP
Label:  Polydor Records
Catalog#  2335261

“The Concerts In China” is a live album by Jean Michel Jarre, recorded in 1981 and released in 1982 on Disques Dreyfus. It was recorded during Jarre’s Concerts in China tour of Autumn 1981, which consisted of five Beijing and Shanghai concerts in China; this was the first time a Western pop artist performed in China after the Cultural Revolution.
The album is a balance of previously released tracks by Jarre, new compositions inspired by Chinese culture, and one rearranged traditional Chinese track (“Fishing Junks at Sunset”). The album consists mainly of live material, plus ambient sound recordings and one new studio track “Souvenir of China”. Other new compositions recorded live include “Night in Shanghai”, “Laser Harp”, “Arpegiator” and “Orient Express”. “Fishing Junks at Sunset” is a new arrangement of a very old traditional Chinese song known as the “Fisherman’s Chant at Dusk” which was performed and recorded with The Peking Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, and is often wrongly attributed as being composed by Jean Michel Jarre, misled by the album inlay.


Side one
1.  The Overture  (4:47)
2.  Arpegiator  (6:54)
3.  Equinoxe IV  (7:49)

Side two
1.  Fishing Junks at Sunset  (9:38)
2.  Band in the Rain  (1:29)
3.  Equinoxe VII  (9:55)

Side three
1.  Orient Express  (4:22)
2.  Magnetic Fields I  (0:21)
3.  Magnetic Fields III  (3:49)
4.  Magnetic Fields IV  (6:49)
5.  Laser Harp  (3:37)

Side four
1.  Night in Shanghai  (7:02)
2.  The Last Rumba  (2:11)
3.  Magnetic Fields II  (6:26)
4.  Souvenir of China  (3:54)

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