Jean Michel Jarre — Geometry of Love. A brief history of the album for one club

And here is another example of an atypical Jarre: without the usual gurgling and howling, but in the spirit of 2000s lounge. Geometry of Love was quietly released during the troubled time when Jean Michel left the former label, where he had been for almost 25 years. Many reviewers wrote that Geometry of Love was very similar in terms of mood to Sessions 2000. I will only agree that Geometry of Love continued the experimental mood of the 50-year-old Jarre, who, at the millennium, broke with the past and dug into exploring the possibilities of digital synthesisers. And content-wise, Geometry of Love is more interesting than the electronic jazzy Sessions released only to fulfil the contract.

Here is how it happened: at the beginning of the noughties, Jean-Roch, the owner of a very fashionable club for friends only, offered the godfather of electronic music the opportunity to record background content for the visitors and walls of the elite establishment. Jarre agreed (custom records weren’t new to him: in 2001 he worked on the Interior Music soundtrack for the Bang & Olufsen high-end stereo system salons), so in 2003, he recorded a sensual and idle instrumental album with track titles like Soul intrusion and Velvet road for rich Parisian kids.