..:: audio-music dot info ::..


Main Page      The Desert Island      Copyright Notice
 Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz


Jean-Michel Jarre: Equinoxe Infinity

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2018.10.16
Time:
 40:13
Category: Elecronica
Producer(s): Jean-Michel Jarre
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jeanmicheljarre.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2023
Price in €: 1,00





 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] The Watchers [Movement 1] (J.-M.Jarre) - 2:58
[2] Flying Totems [Movement 2] (J.-M.Jarre) - 3:54
[3] Robots Don't Cry [Movement 3] (J.-M.Jarre) - 5:44
[4] All That You Leave Behind [Movement 4] (J.-M.Jarre) - 4:01
[5] If the Wind Could Speak [Movement 5] (J.-M.Jarre) - 1:32
[6] Infinity [Movement 6] (J.-M.Jarre) - 4:14
[7] Machines are Learning [Movement 7] (J.-M.Jarre) - 2:07
[8] The Opening [Movement 8] (J.-M.Jarre) - 4:16
[9] Don't Look Back [Movement 9] (J.-M.Jarre) - 3:36
[10] Equinoxe Infinity [Movement 10] (J.-M.Jarre) - 7:33

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Jean-Michel Jarre - Publication, Composition, Production, Mixing, Producer

Stephane Gervais - Production Assistance
Patrick Pelamourgues - Technical Assistance
David Perreau - Mastering
Filip Hodas - Artwork (based in original by Michel Granger)
Peter Lindbergh - Portrait
Eric BDFCK Cornic - Graphic Design

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


Recorded  at the JMJ Studio, Paris



For my new album project EQUINOXE INFINITY I started for the first time with the album cover not the music. I still think that Michael Granger who did the original EQUINOXE cover created one of the best album covers of all time. For the original it was all about the WATCHERs. These strange creatures watching us? Watching Space? Watching machines? Watching a natural phenomenon ? We don’t really know…they are not scary, but odd and mysterious. So I took the original Watchmen of the EQUINOXE cover to continue the story.

I recently discovered the work of Filip Hodas, a super talented young artist, and asked him to create two different artworks in line with my vision for EQUINOXE INFINITY. One cover shows mankind in peace with nature and technology and the other depicts a picture of fear and distortion with machines taking over the world. With the artwork for Oxygene I wanted to draw attention to the poisoned state of planet earth. With these two artworks for EQUINOXE INFINITY I want to bring attention to the two scenarios we are facing today with our love for & our dependance on innovation and technology. The music of EQUINOXE INFINITY is the soundtrack to those two different worlds.

Jean-Michel Jarre
www.jeanmicheljarre.com



2018 release. On the 40th Anniversary of his iconic Equinoxe album, Jean-Michel Jarre releases the sequel - Equinoxe Infinity. This concept album will not be a direct follow-up to the 1978 masterpiece, but rather a meditation about the watchers (the characters with binoculars) as being part of the struggle (or not) between human and artificial intelligence. Jarre describes this album as "Equinoxe on steroids".

amazon.com



Mit Equinoxe Infinity erscheint zum 40sten Jubiläum des Originals ein brandneues Equinoxe Album. 1978 komponierte und produzierte Jean-Michel Jarre ein Album, welches die Musik unserer Zukunft widerspiegeln sollte und damit in die elektronische Musikgeschichte revolutionierte. Als tragendes Element ging es auf Equinoxe um die »Watchers« (die Beobachter), die auf dem ursprünglichen Album Cover in unendlicher Zahl zu sehen waren. Wer sind diese Watchers? Beobachten sie uns? Sind sie Freund oder Feind? Diese Watchers waren 1987 in einer aufstrebenden Zeit von Technik und Neuerungen ein Symbol für Maschinen die uns beobachten, eine frühe Vision dessen, was uns die Zukunft bringen würde.

Auf Equinoxe Infinity führt Jean-Michel Jarre diesen Gedanken fort. Gleich mit zwei Covern erscheint das neue Werk. Die eine Version verkörpert eine Zukunft, in der der Mensch in Einklang mit der Natur leb. Die andere Version zeigt die Zerstörung, die Maschinen und Menschen über den Planeten bringen könnten. Für den als Innovator und Pionier bekannten Jarre ist das Thema Artificial Intelligence und Man vs Machine das wichtigste und brisanteste Thema für die Menschheit der Zukunft. Für seine Gedanken wurde Jarre 2017 mit der Stehen Hawkins Medal of for Science ausgezeichnet. Equinoxe Infinity ist der Soundtrack für diese zweiseitige Zukunftsvision.

Das Cover kann bei der Bestellung nicht ausgewählt werden. Die Auswahl erfolgt auf Künstlerwunsch nach dem Zufallsprinzip.

jpc.de



»Die Sounds ... wirken noch ein wenig mächtiger als bisher.«

stereoplay, Januar 2019



"Equinoxe Infinity" is the twentieth studio album by French musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 16 November 2018 by Columbia Records. It is the sequel to his fourth studio release, Équinoxe (1978), released forty years prior.

Jarre for this album used both analog and digital instruments. At first he was going to use the analog instruments that he used in Équinoxe, but then he refused "because if I was once again the young guy I was when i Began that LP 40 years ago, I would use the instruments available today." Among the instruments he used was the prototype of a small synthesizer that Jarre discovered on Kickstarter called the granular GR-1 made by the company Tasty Chips Electronics. This instrument was used to process a child's voice giving him a surreal and technological look on the track "If the Wind Could Speak [Movement 5)". Jarre explained that he intentionally shortened it to make a link to "Band In The Rain" (from Équinoxe Part 8) from the 1978 album.

Jean-Michel asked an artist from Prague named Filip Hodas to make two covers based on Michel Granger's design, Le trac for the original álbum, one in green and blue to symbolize a peaceful and harmonious future, and another that reflects a more apocalyptic and dystopian world. "The album is the soundtrack to both these futures, with some parts sounding more uplifting and poppy and others more dark."

Aaron Badgley of Spill Magazine wrote that "Jarre does on this record that makes it so great, is develop a somewhat retro sound. This is electronic music from the '70s, with a bit of today's technology thrown in for good measure, and it adds to the album overall."

wikipedia.org
 

 L y r i c s


Currently no Lyrics available!

 M P 3   S a m p l e s


Currently no Samples available!