ralf wrote:Real Jarre dead long, long ago.
Now is very comercial JMJ only for money.
JMJ cant composed anything without other people??.
You are the person who defines the real Jarre? I thought that would be Jarre himself. It is also possible that you simply don't like "Jarre" as a composer, you only like the particular style called "Oxygene/Equinoxe/Rendezvous/Chronologie" which JMJ happened to do for 20 years. There are lots of artists who only do one kind of music, including this style. Maybe you want to seek them out.
If JMJ was in this for the money, he would not spend 5 years and his own money working on a double album. In stead he would have toured, played his greatest hits 10 years in a row and taken on film soundtracks. There is no big money in albums anymore, unless you have boobs and takes your clothes off on stage. Alternatively, JMJ could have tried to make Equinoxe II to keep his old fans happy and try to sell them past glories, but then THAT would have been wrong too. He was accused of doing the commercial thing with 7-13, you know. Even if that was old-school Jarre. He just can't win, so he better do things he likes himself. His job is not to satisfy us, you know. Selling records and concert tickets is just a happy byproduct of doing what he likes.
FYI Jarre composed all the tracks on this 2 album project. What do you mean, he can't compose on his own?
(Tired rant over.)
