Jean-Michel Jarre - Essential Recollection (2015)

Tracks:
01. Oxygene, Pt. 2 (4:57)
02. Arpegiateur (Live) (6:22)
03. Oxygene, Pt. 4 (4:05)
04. Souvenir de Chine (Live) (3:59)
05. Equinoxe, Pt. 4 (6:41)
06. Zoolookologie (4:19)
07. Magnetic Fields, Pt. 1 (6:32)
08. Magnetic Fields, Pt. 2 (3:57)
09. Equinoxe, Pt. 5 (3:54)
10. Chronologie, Pt. 4 (3:59)
11. Fourth Rendez-Vous (3:50)
12. Oxygene, Pt. 6 (5:58)
13. Bells (3:47)
14. Last Rendez-Vous (5:51)

The electronic master reimagines his career on a greatest-hits album with a difference. Segued together so that the old blends seamlessly with the new, and live recordings mesh with studio tracks, Essential Recollection creates a seamless flow of moods. Delicately unwinding melodies from “Oxygene” bookend a joyful live take on “Arpegiateur,” while danceable excerpts from “Chronologie” and “Equinoxe” represent Jarre’s most upbeat side. The finale section of “Rendez-Vous,” written for the late astronaut Ron McNair, brings the piece to a heroic conclusion.