Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe (1978) [2015] [96kHz/24bit]
Country: France
Genre: Electronic
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless [96kHz/24bit]
Time: 0:39:02
Full Size: 833 MB
If Oxygene was a hymn to the air, Equinoxe was an ode to water; music that was fog, mist, almost organic. Jarre created in eighteen months a veritable electronic symphony of intertwining melodic themes. The electronics allowed him to evoke, not imitate the sounds of nature. He recreated them on a synthesiser like Fellini had recreated the sea or the sky at the Cinecitta studio, giving them a personal colour or rhythm.
One of the characteristics of Equinoxe is its slow-mo sound effects, seeming to stop time as its sounds melt into the electric heat. Jean Michel Jarre released Equinoxe in 1978.
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 70's 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. (Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide)
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