JEAN MICHEL JARREJEAN MICHEL JARRE
"OXYGENE 7-13"
Disques Dreyfus / Sony
After his discreet Hong Kong, I have been truly surprised by Jean Michel Jarre. When I learned that he was about to release an album using his old analogic instruments, I feared for the worst. Such a radical change could only obey to commercial considerations. Well then, if this was so, welcome be such considerations. Oxygene 7-13, as I was saying, has pleasantly surprised me. Although the album cannot reach the peaks of its predecessor, it is curious what the change in pitch and sound of the instruments can do in the new themes of this French musician. Somehow or other, perhaps inspired by this mellow sonority, Jarre has composed a series of themes that will no doubt attract the lovers of the electronic "look" of the mid seventies. Of course, the album includes a couple of certainly more commercial themes than the others, but in general the result of the "experiment" can be termed as satisfactory. Very probably this record will not be remembered as its predecessor, yet it certainly possesses the ingredients and the sufficient quality to be liked by Jarre's followers, as well as those who believed nothing good could come out of all that.
V.A.
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