Jean-Michel Jarre ----- Oxygene (Part IV)

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Jean-Michel Jarre ----- Oxygene (Part IV)

This month in 1977, JEAN-MICHEL JARRE released the single OXYGÈNE (PART IV), (September 1977).

Taken from Jarre’s third album, Oxygène, OXYGÈNE (PART IV) went on to be his most successful single.

"1976’s Oxygène album was the French composer's big breakthrough after initial difficulties in getting the record released due to its entirely instrumental composition," wrote SongFacts.

Oxygène and its follow-up Equinoxe were huge commercial successes and helped elevate the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity.

"Making my music is like being a chef,” said Jarre in 2008.

“It's no coincidence that Oxygène was recorded in my kitchen in Paris. I had to find the right ingredients, bringing everything to the right temperature. I don't like the preconceived idea about electronic music that it is cold, futuristic or robotic. I want my music to sound warm, human and organic. I'm not a scientist working in a laboratory - I'm more like a painter, Jackson Pollock for example, mixing color and light, experimenting with textures."

"Oxygène was turned down by all the record companies. It was like a UFO - it was made in the middle of the Disco and Punk eras and the record companies said, 'What is it? No singer, no proper song titles? And, on top of that, it's French!' Even my mum asked, 'Why are you giving your music the name of a gas?' Yet people talk of Oxygène now as my 'masterpiece.' When it became such a success, it was strange - a very exciting period and kind of innocent. You find you have a lot of new friends around you and it's almost as if they want the success to continue more than you."

Jarre was motivated to write the album after seeing a painting of the Earth peeling to reveal a skull, composed by the environmental campaigner and artist Michel Granger.

"30 years ago there weren't so many people thinking about the planet. But I've always been interested in that, not necessarily in a political way but in a poetic, surrealistic way."

"All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygène IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by a guy called Peter Zinoviev. I got one of the first ones. I had to go to London in 1967 to get it, and it's the one I still have onstage 40 years later."

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