JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

Progressive electronic pop doyen goes on a binaural odyssey by way of a trip back to Paris and 1968.

Edited by Dave Everley

prog.reviews@futurenet.com Jean-Michel Jarre achieved global recognition with his 1976 album Oxygène, selling 12 million albums at a time when progressive music was supposedly in retreat. Forty-six years later, he brings us Oxymore, which suggests we’re in for more of the same – or at the very least, we’ll be treated to some motifs from across the decades. The title turns out to be a red herring. It’s a play on ‘oxymoron’ rather than a declaration of more Oxygène, an obvious semantic correlation that Jarre claims he didn’t notice initially. If Oxymore has an antecedent then it’s 1984’s Zoolook, a record that used the Fairlight CMI to build sonic worlds, festooned with manipulated voices spouting 25 different languages. But the listener needs to go back further still to 1968 to identify the true…

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