Geometry of Love

Artist: Jean Michel Jarre
Label: Wea/Warner
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 825646069323
EAN: 0825646069323
ASIN: B0000AKQG8

Release Date: 2003-09-15

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Chronological Discography of Jean-Michel Jarre

Tracks:

Pleasure Principle
Geometry of Love, Pt. 1
Soul Intrusion
Electric Flesh
Skin Paradox
Velvet Road
Near Djaina
Geometry of Love, Pt. 2

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Metamorphoses
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Customer Reviews:

Jarre strikes again!.......2006-11-07

Jarre neither experienced an "erosion" nor did he drift from his "roots". He's an artist, and artists evolve. He uses music and sounds like a painter uses color and shading. If the artist painted the same bridge fifty times, using different colors each time, you'de get pissed. This album was a commissioned work for a nightclub/lounge, so yeah, it is lounge music. And I'd put it on for dinner company. You can even put it on while meditating, relaxing, reading, whatever. But it most definately has Jarre style, sound, and trademark all over it. His melodies change, his compositions change, but his style is - well - still there. It's very much Jarre. If you want Oxygene, then go buy that album. In the mean time this is some darn good chilling out music.

Must have for Jean Michel Jarre fans.......2006-04-14

As most JMJ fans know, he has being experimenting with new sounds and slightly got into this new age of lounge music.

I've been reading other reviews and there are two general opinions about this album and his latest works, such as Oxygene 7-13, Metamorphosis and Aero. Some fans think this is an evolution of his music, another phase of his mind; others think he has lost his musical personality.

Well, I think we probably got used to the sound of his previous albums, a "hardcore" Jarre. (Don't take me wrong, those albums are my favorites). All these new sounds are less extravagant but still have his colorful touch. A desperate attempt to gain the attention of new generations? Who knows, maybe we are the ones who have not evolved along with him.

Lets not forget that "Geometry of Love" it's just a project for a trendy club in Paris. It doesn't sounds like the Jarre we all know though. That's the reason why I only gave 3 stars to this album.

I am true hardcore Jarre fan, and I might follow him through any path he decides to walk.

A CD to have in your Jarre collection.......2005-08-26

New music is very good. Have listened to it quite a few times. Some of his old electronic instruments can be heard in the background on some tracks.

No Jarre fan should be without this CD

What was I thinking?.......2005-04-12

I bought this CD along with Aero, which to my mind is better. Although I had listened to both before buying, I guess I must have still been high on Aero. A week after I bought it, I played it and still think that Equinox 3, in both incarnations, is more romantic and sensual than this offering. Basically I found it boring.

I'm sorry Jean-Michel, if this is where you're going I dont want to go.

Sigh. Just. Not. Original. Jarre........2005-03-28

A quick sidebar here: Does anyone else notice the striking similarity between Jarre's "Near Djaina" and Brian Eno's "Among Fields of Crystal" from his "Ambient 2" album? Not only do both possess the same basic harmonic progressions and mood, but both are also using precisely the same shimmering piano effect. Hmmmmmm!

Overall this is quite listenable, but it's the kind of stuff that Supreme Beings of Leisure or William Orbit would do better. It's a bit ham-handed, as is most of his stuff from the last 15 years or so.

But where did Jarre go?? His "Equinoxe" is still unquestionably the pinnacle of the style, but I fear that he has strayed far, far, far off course. Like Klaus Schulze, he was on fire when he began, but he has produced little of any consequence since.

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A Bailar Con Banda Super Express ~ Banda Super Express

Astor Piazzolla: A Flute and Piano Tribute ~ Jorge De La Vega, Carlos Franzetti

Geometry of Love ~ Jean Michel Jarre

First Flute ~ Ron Allen

SGB0005 (Karaoke CD&G) Sweet Georgia Brown

Disco Gardens ~ Shalamar

Senor Corazon ~ Jose Luis Rodriguez

Senales de Humo ~ Grupo Niche

Una Vida de Boleros ~ Sarahi Noriega, Grupo Hanyak

Ven a Bailar ~ Angelica Y La Tribu