Equinoxe (album)
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| Studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre | ||||
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Publication |
December 1978 |
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admission |
January 1978 - August 1978 |
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| Label (s) | Disques Dreyfus or Polydor | |||
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Electronica , New Age , Ambient , Pop |
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running time |
39 min 09 s |
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Équinoxe ( French for equinox or day and night are equally long ) is an instrumental concept album by French artist Jean-Michel Jarre . It encompasses a person's daily routine from early morning to late evening. The album was released in December 1978 by Disques Dreyfus in France and Polydor in the rest of the world. Similar to the previous album Oxygène from 1976, but now more geared towards rhythm, the album was a success, even if Oxygène could not reach the high international chart positions. The pieces of music Equinoxe Part V (1978) and Equinoxe Part IV (1979) were released as a single, both of which have music videos in which Jarre himself appears.
Track list
- Written and arranged by Jean-Michel Jarre.
- Équinoxe (Part 1) - 2:25
- Équinoxe (Part 2) - 5:00
- Équinoxe (Part 3) - 5:09
- Équinoxe (Part 4) - 6:54
- Équinoxe (Part 5) - 3:54
- Équinoxe (Part 6) - 3:28
- Équinoxe (Part 7) - 7:06
- Équinoxe (Part 8) - 4:57
Note: The short piece of music at the beginning of Équinoxe (Part 8) is played differently during live performances and is also known as Band in the Rain or L'Orchestre sous la pluie .
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Charts
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| 1978 | Equinoxes |
DE22nd  (42 weeks)DE |
AT14 (4 weeks) AT |
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UK11 (26 weeks)UK |
US126 (8 weeks) US |
First published: November 17, 1978
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gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Major versions
| year | Output form | medium | country | Label | Catalog number | comment |
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| 1978 | original | LP | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, Polydor | 824 747-1, 2344 120 | First edition |
| 1983 | original | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, Polydor | FDM CD-83150, 800 025-2 | First CD pressing |
| 1991 | Remastered | CD | France | Disques Dreyfus | 824 747-2 | Series 'Digitally Remastered' |
| 1997 | Remastered | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, EPIC | FDM 36141-2, EPC 487376 2 | 96kHz / 24bit technology, by Scott Hull |
| 2014 | Remastered | CD | Europe | Sony Music | 88843024692 | by Dave Dadwater |
occupation
- Jean-Michel Jarre - ARP 2600 Synthesizer, EMS Synthi AKS , VCS 3 Synthesizer, Yamaha CS-60 , Oberheim TVS-1A, RMI Harmonic Synthesizer, RMI Keyboard Computer, ELKA 707 , Korg Polyphonic Ensemble 2000, Eminent 310 Unique , Mellotron , ARP Sequencer, Oberheim Digital Sequencer, GEISS Matrisequencer 250, GEISS Rhythmicomputer (custom-made), EMS Vocoder
production
- produced by Jean-Michel Jarre
- Sound engineering and mixing: Jean-Pierre Janiaud
- Assistant technician: Patrick Foulon