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Is that an early Synclavier in the back past the keyboards? With the 8" floppy drives?
Fans of Jean-Michel Jarre often also like: Tangerine Dream (DE): My favorite recordings are Logos and Poland (both live recordings), but there’s many other great ones, e.g. Force Majeure, Phaedra, Quinoa, … Redshift (UK): Love almost every single album they made. My all-time favorites are Redshift Wild 3, Redshift Wild 2, and Wild (all live recordings). Peter Baumann (DE): I particularly like the first few tracks of…
Completely prolific and varied but the standard is just so high
Try his entire catalogue.
Here are just a couple of highlights:
Who Owns the Octopus? - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AX8lmn1tk4c
Water from a Vine Leaf - https://open.spotify.com/track/00z9Rax2KTHqKLKYnGHzNk
Brand New Bong - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrdoimfed0
Montok Point - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIPhxU0vZh0
Other than that, the sound of this album, Concerts in China, was absolutely mind blowing then and still remains a landmark in electronic music. Big fan of JMJ and especially his concerts in China series.
1997 concert in Moscow on Sparrow's Hills (Воробьёвы Горы) with Russian Airforce participating: https://youtu.be/pFNlcNpUIk4?t=118
Not a digital interface in sight. I don't know much about synthesizers, but the kit used definitely looks vintage.
There is a documentary about JMJ's trip and his series of concerts in China in 1981, which for some stupid rights ownership reason is no longer available (afaict). One curious fact I learned from this film was that the concert in Shanghai required so much electric power that they had to actually switch off the power in the entire city during the concert. At least that's what JMJ tells his then wife Charlotte Rampling…
I'd love to see a collection of these; the visionaries of the 70s and 80s, and I might include Jodorowsky's Dune at the end.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg
My order was Vangelis, then JMC, then The Alan Parsons P. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg
For the electronic music geeks, JMJ presents the gear he used to make this album: https://youtu.be/ctOhwRGdVvo About the "matrisequencer" and "digisequencer": the matrisequencer was conceived and built by Michel Geiss, an engineer who worked with Jarre for more than 20 years, from discreet components. It was horribly complex and expensive. In the early 90s, Geiss rebuilt it anew as the "digisequencer", with a tactile…
That's a lot of knobs. Knobs are the ultimate general purpose machine. They can make music, or macaroni. Knobs can also make knobs, which accelerates our ability to make knobs. Artificial dexterity running on cheap knobs will one day force us to deal with a world without work. Sounds great too.
Your comment is hilarious, but as I deal with UIs a lot, the sheer complexity of all those knobs kind of astounds me that he can deal with it all, and in real time to make music. Wow. I've loved his music since the late 70's, it's great to hear it again.
EDIT: read elsewhere in the thread that those are modular synths, so I guess he might be in charge of making the nice whirling sound. Still, it's not like he's someone playing on a keyboard - where every single key is an option. Most of the knobs will be preconfigured to produce exactly that sound (it's the same as in the record) and the ones he's turning are probably doing a few definite things.