The first great masterpiece. The darkest album, the most cohesive, the most akin, the unforgettable one. The title track remains to this day their most beautiful and touching piece. Also very beautiful is the famous Pure Morning. more
Among Oldfield's pop works, this is undoubtedly the best. The suite is beautiful, Moonlight Shadow is unforgettable, and Foreign Affair is predictable. more
Inferior to its predecessors for some, simply different in my opinion, it nevertheless fails to touch, in the realm of electronics with rhythms and drums, what the predecessors had touched in melodic music. Still very beautiful. more
It could have been another 5-stars, but this time, bravely, Oldfield "drags it out too much." Four tracks of about 30 minutes each inevitably end up being boring, but still, compliments for the music and the courage. An album for a few. more
One would hardly have expected, after the various pop works, such a great album from Mike. After Tubular Bells, which is from another planet, the best album is Ommadawn, a sublime work with which Oldfield forcefully raises his head again after the messy works like Heaven's Open and TB 2. more
The worst along with Earth Moving and Tubular Bells II, Oldfield's voice isn't bad but often unsuitable for the pop context (or maybe it would be better to say the other way around). more
Another album of highs and lows, excellent The Wind Chimes, beautiful Flying Start and the title track, terrible Magic Touch, a prelude to the crap music of Earth Moving. A lot of smoke and little roast. more
Indissoluble milestone of electronics, beautiful in its entirety, innovative for its time and style, compared to what electronics of the developing '70s was. Part IV is a hit that sticks in your mind even today. more
Another album branded Gore, which represents an innovation as there is something different from the previous ones. After years of activity, the band still knows how to innovate. It can be classified between Violator and SOFAD. more
A soundtrack probably composed with little effort (practically every track is a reinterpretation of a single theme), at the time Jarre was already engaged in composing what would become a masterpiece. more
A complete turnaround for Jarre, highly successful and original. From compositions without voices or titles (only divided into parts), here the sampled voices take center stage and for the first time titles of the tracks also appear. The most experimental and original work of JMJ. more
Almost exclusively composed in honor of the event of the same name (concert in Houston), it results in a beautiful album, with soft and very sad tones (Part IV, another hit, aside) and thus different from the previous ones. For the first time, the entrance of acoustic music in a JMJ composition. more
Jarre's most "politically engaged" album, characterized by a mix of Arabic and pop sounds, isn't bad, but in comparison to the others, it is slightly inferior, also due to tracks (the title track and September) that are almost nonsensical. more
After years, here comes an album worthy of the title masterpiece. Jarre adapts to the times and delivers a "modern Oxygène" worthy of his first two works. The overture (Part I) is beautiful and moving, while IV (coincidentally, the number is always the same) once again becomes a hit. more
Reprise of Oxygène, well done overall but beautiful only in parts. Oxygène 9 is an obvious reprise of Part I of the original; it's hard to catch differences between tracks Oxygène 7 and 12. Ox. 8 is perhaps the last Jarrettian hit. more
Few are the details about this album, the result of various sessions with other musicians. You can definitely hear the lack of exploration in the arrangements, but some tracks are quite good. more
Chillout Project underestimated by critics and unknown to most, showcasing how Jarre can adapt to various contexts while maintaining an exceptionally high level. Beautiful are the title track, Electric Flesh, and Velvet Road (already performed earlier in a concert in Okinawa). more
Jarre returns to the scene after four years with a dance album. The attempt to achieve a new commercial success fails due to the lack of originality of this enjoyable and catchy project, which is not, however, worthy of his best works. Waiting for something better... more
Second album featuring the voice, this time not sampled, but the result of numerous guest singers and Jarre himself (who still sings with a voice filtered through a vocoder). The first two tracks are very beautiful, the rest is nice and the album as a whole is decent, but nothing more. more
A sort of return to the past, with results that are only half good. At first listen, it seems boring and in the style of BMM, but then you realize there's a lot to discover. But songs like Ashtray Hearth or For What It's Worth take away the elegance that has always characterized them. Beautiful Kitty Litter. more