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ÉQUINOXE

Jean-Michel Jarre

 

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4.04 | 308 ratings

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Bonnek
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2 stars The impact of Jarre's previous album was impressive. It became a popular hit and managed to bring electronic music into the mainstream. It's something I can only applaud as I love much of the dance music that indirectly came forth from it.

So what did Jarre do for the follow up? He created a very similar album that sits so close in style and sound to Oxygène that I feel tempted to simply copy my review of that album and paste it here. Many of the points I tried to make there are also valid for this release. It is clever, dynamic, its lush, sparkling and catchy, but...

The first half is slightly better then the previous album. The cosmic flow of part 2 and the very original sequencing of part 4 especially are very moving. Part 3 is a bit less but still ok. The second half is a letdown. Part 5 tries to emulate Kraftwerk but it misses all the cool and the fine taste of them. It ends up being terribly trite and commercial. Cringeworthy, can't bear to listen to this. Part 6 continues the same beat and tries to add a more artsy flavour to it but it fails miserably. So, in Part 7 Jarre goes entirely cheesy again and resorts to commercial electro pop with classical pretensions.

By revisiting this particular Jarre album for reviewing, I understand now why he is listed as Prog-Related. This music misses the organic progression, the innovation and the artistic integrity of the true masters of the progressive electronic music in the 70's. It has two excellent pieces but the rest is either average or downright annoying. I can't have the plain pop clichés that Jarre resorts to here.

Bonnek | 2/5 |

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