Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

rinogurr wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:32 pm

Wow! I had seen reference to it, but nothing more! That Oxygene-esque opening feels like something from Live In Your Living Room! It shows a real depth compared to the other sections. That's not a VCS 3 or an AKS making that phased sound is it?

Describing the album as a collection of jingles is probably apt, he's been doing jingles before and after (Sport en Fête comes to mind).


Was the elusive A4 Autoroute jingle written around this time? The jingle (that reports say) with a motif that sounds very much like Oxygene 4?

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"I've seen a letter from Jarre to Peter Zinovieff (EMS studios) from April 1972. In this letter Jarre say he is working on a further opera, but I don't think this work ever saw the light of day..."

Wouldn't this opera be Doria?


Sorry - my bad. From memory I said opera, but when I checked again ...

Hi Everyone,

I've rejoined this forum as the Deserted Palace release prompted my interest once again. I used to be here many years ago as "rubberlips". I tend to loiter on a couple of Facebook groups these days... I've long been interested in creating an authoritative biography of Jean-Michel Jarre ...