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~ Jean Michel Jarre
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  • Audio CD (1 May 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Dreyfus/Polydor
  • ASIN: B000001ZS5
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1. Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 1
2. Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 2
3. Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 3
4. Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 4
5. Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 5

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ground-breaking but patchy, 25 Jan 2009
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For Jean Michel Jarre the turn of the 1980's was a very busy time. Equinoxe was a huge worldwide hit and he had just played his first mage concert at the Place de la Concorde in Paris to a million ecstatic fans on Bastille Day 1979.

The following year was the one where the next album's planning began and the neotiations began for the historic tour of China in late summer of 1981. China would see a fair amount of new material released to the public, including much of this album, released just a couple of months before.

Following his massive success, JMJ was targeted by Fairlight and, along with Peter Gabriel, was one of the first to use their equipment in anger. It's perhaps why this album feels a little unfinished in some places; there had not been enough time to explore the capabilities of the kit fully, only scratching the surface. It probably isn't until the legendary Music for Supermarkets and the magisterially good Zoolook that the full fruits of working with the Fairlight would be seen and heard.

This is not to say the album is bad: far from it. It is something of a pioneering work and has echoes of Jarre's past in Musique Concrète. The original album and cassette divied into two parts: the first was Magnetic Fields Part 1, which took up the whole of side 1; the second was the remainder. On a CD this division sort of disappears and changes the flow just a little.

Part 1 feels like several ideas stiched together. Some of them are stronger than others, particularly the urgent pulse of the opening section. Perhaps the most famous piece of all is Part 2, with its bright melody line and handclaps. It finishes with the background noise of trains, which ties this to both MFS and Zoolook a little as a recurrent theme. Part 3 is somewhat forgettable, Part 4 is a rather nice mid-tempo shuffle with hints of the aurora flickering in and out of life, punctuated by a solid pulsing bassline. The album finishes with Part 5, a rather melancholic rumba.

After what had gone before some have said that this album sounds a little sterile in comparison to the organic warmth of Oxygène and Zoolook. They do have something of a point to be honest, though Part 2 is really quite wonderful and is up there with the very best of his work (it's pretty much what tipped me into giving the album 4 stars). It's an album that perhaps is more to be admired than loved.
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