ÉQUINOXE

After "Oxygene", Jean-Michel Jarre continues his progressive New Age realizations with this excellent album. Compared to "Oxygene", "Equinoxe" has much more elaborated rhythmic sequencers, often approaching the Tangerine Dream's "Ricochet" sound. Jarre still uses his personal slow wah-wah effect on the intensely floating streams of keyboards, and he also adds here weird keyboards notes that sound like water drops falling into another liquid. "Equinoxe part 3" amazingly sounds similar to Tangerine Dream's "Force Majeure". On side 2, there is even a sequenced bottom beat in the beginning which sounds like the ones on Tangerine Dream's "Stratosfear". Unfortunately, the album oddly ends with a possible emulation of an European accordion air.

Rating: 4.5 stars