Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Dr_Jones]

This smiley is the symbol of the struggle between men and machines...

That is absolutely true!

[jeanbatman]

Jarre doing the album Kraftwerk ought to do for 15 years now...

[Herr Dunkel]

Re: Finaero's comment "Quite the Division Bell-like cover art there."

Quite true! Something majestic about the statues of the watchers, Easter Island-like, just like those of The Division Bell, especially the "stone" version used for the cover on cassette.

Too bad the Équinoxe Infinity image is mere CGI with 3 copies of the same statue. Photoshop / CGI are cool, but designers often go the lazy way with the the easy copy / paste. It's photo-realistic but ultimately looks fake. The Division Bell statues were real objects (albeit in fiber glass, not metal / stone) and photographed for real in a field. That makes the pictures better.

It should be interesting to see both variants of the cover. And listen to the new music, of course!

[Dr_Jones]

JMJ himself describes it as "Equinoxe on steroids", he said afterward the Hamburg presentation.

[Velodynamic]

Please mr. Jarre don't screw it up this time...

[Oxynoxe]

'Equinoxe Infinity' is also listed at jpc.de :

CD: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail ... 48?lang=en

Vinyl-LP: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail ... 86?lang=en

Box-set: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail ... 42?lang=en

[Jote]

Tracklist is available for the box-set at amazon.de.

As I predicted, disc 1 is Equinoxe 1978, disc 2 is Equinoxe 1978, disc 3 is Equinoxe Infinity, disc 4 is Equinoxe Infinity. Discs 2 and 4 are likely vinyl (I don't think they will be cassettes this time)

[Dr_Jones]

Apparantly there's going to be a jewelcase release:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H657XG2

And a digipack release:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H63Q3S7/

[rinogurr]

[jeanbatman]

Where did this pop from rinogurr ?

[Dr_Jones]

Ah, there's the "dark" cover.

Where did this pop from rinogurr ?

You can see that image, if you click on the links I posted. They are just added.

[rinogurr]

Where did this pop from rinogurr ?

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.de/Equinoxe-Infinity ... e+infinity

[Dr_Jones]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

[jeanbatman]

None of the two covers are optimist for me. On the first one, the people are disabled. In the second they are being killed (I don't think of suicide at that point)...

[Herr Dunkel]

I thought the same. The first cover didn't make me think of "man living in harmony with nature" as the PR blurb mentioned, it made me think about nature *after* mankind. With remnants of "civilization" in the form of those statues (provided they were not made by extraterrestrials