The album, Equinoxe

Though the Equinoxe was the very first ablbum that I (kowingly) heard from Jarre, it made huge impact right at the start. Just the type of music that I have seaked for so long. Also there was one other thing that made great impact to me, not that I first noticed. When I got that casette from my friend there was something form Jethro Tull on the other side of the casette. More out on the respect to the effort of my friend, I did listened that side once or twice hastly, but every time I returned to the Equinoxe. 

At that time I was also reading numerous sci-fi books. My life has always been with technik and technology and sci-fi so the music of Jarre isn't really that strange strand of my life. While I was listening that my very first recording of Jarre's music, I was also reading a book at the same time. It happened to be Stanislav Lem's book Return from the stars. While reading I listened the A-side of the casette, and when it ended I rewinded it and started again. It took me some while before I realised that at the same time that I was reading and listening the music, I also adapted the music to the events in the book. That realisation was as suprising as thrilling. That same thing has happened later on as well. 

For some reason there are numerous songs that "talks" to me as images. Most of the time the images come to me very strongly right at the very first time I hear such song. I have found that even though the images created by the music I listen can be from almost any song, most notably they have come from Jarre's music. During these years I have learned to develope these images further, and by the time I got the album Rendez-Vous I quicly composed "mental musicvideo" from the songs of the album. 

This was the start

Just recently I was at my very first concert of Jean-Michel Jarre. I must say that it was really magnificent experience. Though I have littele to compare with, but still I must say magnificent. 

Of course the music was my favorite and the laser efects where really at the class of theyr own. 

That concert triggered me to ponder about my life with music. The music that most of my friends haven't really liked. Though they have tolereted it, but my friends have really left me on my own with my music. Don't take this wrong, I do like wide variety of music, but for example Jarre is absolutely in its own class. Class that is quite dificult to define. There are also artits like Vangelis and Oldfield that I categorise among the top. I mention only these 3 because these have been longest there to influence my life. To look at the long history of synth-pop there are so meny bands. Still the reality is that just there 3 have been the most influentic for me, and in this case that's just what counts. 

As far as I can rememmber I have been very curious about music made with synthesizers. Any time that I heard some electronic music I was very curious about it. Unfortunately I never got any real clue to any artist or even the title of the music. Some kind of breaking point was in 1981 when friends of my sister got recently published album of ELO. That album was titled as Time. I really liked that album, and I still like to listen that album. But some how it wasn't quite that what I have seeked. So my search for "my music" continued. It was somewhat confusing, I did like wide variety of music, list hits and classical and popmusic and so on, but the thing somehow just wasn't there for me. 

The true breaking point came some years later. I was studying at tradechool when one friend recorded a c-casette for me. On that casette was the album Equinoxe. That was truly the breaking point for me. For the first time I was able to say that I have music that truly like. Also now I had the most importatnt info of what to seek further.