Equinoxe Part 1-8

Jean Michel Jarre released Equinoxe in 1978. If Oxygène was a hymn to the air, Equinoxe was an ode to water; music that was fog, mist, almost organic. Jarre created in eighteen months a veritable electronic symphony of intertwining melodic themes. The electronics allowed him to evoke, not imitate the sounds of nature. He recreated them on a synthesiser like Fellini had recreated the sea or the sky at the Cinecittà studio, giving them a personal colour or rhythm. One of the characteristics of Equinoxe is its slow-mo sound effects, seeming to stop time as its sounds melt into the electric heat.