Jean Michel Jarre — Equinoxe. Brief story behind artwork

Today’s cover story is about why people from the Jarre’s Équinoxe cover look at us—it’s not Eclipse after all. The artwork for Jarre’s previous album was simple for the artist Granger: the musician’s wife bought a painting from a young artists’ exhibition and subsequently, the half-naked Earth became the finished cover for the Oxygene album. The artwork for the second record was not so easy.

Michel Granger

“Title for the first album, Oxygene, he chose from an existing painting. Equinoxe was an already existing painting too, but the second Jarre’s album hadn’t final name—Jean Michel had a long list of titles and he always came up with new titles like Venus and Transistor. I was a bit lost. We had gone through a whole series of paintings without finding the right one. One day I went to his house and projected this on the wall and Jarre said: This is the one and he was the one who came up with the final title as well.”