"Back in the Seventies, as punk was snarling its way across a world that had not yet gone green, a different sound was heard.""Now Jarre has returned to his roots, dusted off his aged but robust tools and for the first time embarked on a tour of indoor venues across Europe.
These keyboards and synthesisers look antediluvian but emit warmth and emotion when in the right hands.
'It's not nostalgia, it's not a retro way of thinking. It's just the fact that these instruments - in the history of music - are absolutely unique, like the Stradivarius, or the Les Paul Gibson 58, or whatever," he says.
'Those instruments are very sensual and organic and you can have a very poetic approach to it.
'The difference between noise and music is the hand of the musician.
'It's the reason why I wanted to present Oxygene, which I've never played before in its entirety in a concert, to share this experience in a different venue, with proximity to the audience, to share the experience with the audience in a different context.'"
Click here for the full interview by the BBC.
You can find tour info at the official Oxygene JMJ website. Looks like European dates only. Anyone know if he will be coming to the US?
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