CHRONOLOGIE

As the title suggest, this is a concept album about time, as you can hear many references to time in the music featured here, and it's also one of Jarre's very best albums released after the 80's and bears some similarity to earlier stuff like Magnetic Fields or Rendez-Vous, only with a more modern sound to it. The music varies from dreamy ambient to upbeat electronica and even house sometimes, and the tracks show good variation from each other. The 11 minute opening track is one of Jarre's finest, a symphonic electronica suite with some amazing dynamics, before fading into the fast paced Part 2 that properly introduces the beats and sequencers and is another classic together with Part 6. Part 4 is obviously the catchiest piece here, while stuff like Part 3, Part 7 and the intro to Part 5 shows the mellower and more introspective sides to the album for a great effect. It's another very good album overall and should appeal to most Jarre fans.