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Two years later Jean-Michel Jarre was back at work in the studio putting the finishing touches to a new album, entitled "Equinoxe". This new instrumental album, inspired by underwater sea life, would confirm Jean-Michel Jarre as one of the top stars on the French music scene. Meanwhile, Jarre continued to compose for the cinema, writing the music for Peter Fleischmann’s film "La Maladie de Hambourg" in 1978.
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[T]o fans reminiscing for the subtle tonal quality and phased sounds of Jarre's early work, 1997 would not be a disappointing year. Oxygene 7–13 was released to reveal that a coherent sonic story over the course of an album was something that Jarre could still achieve in the sequel-of-sorts to his 1976 landmark release. This album brought back the VCS 3 synthesizer, Eminent 310U, and Mellotron, among others. One can hear inspiration from "Oxygene (Part IV)" and "Equinoxe (Part II)" in the two-movement piece "Oxygene 7", while many of the other techno-based tracks on the album suggest a combination of Jarre's inspiration from both the Oxygene and Chronologie periods. "Oxygene 10" would ... be the first piece composed by Jarre to feature him playing a theremin. Jarre once again toured Europe to support the album, this time focusing on smaller, indoor venues with a stripped down version of his large outdoor extravaganzas.
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During that summer, the public was to discover Jean-Michel Jarre’s affair with French star Isabelle Adjani on the front page of a famous tabloid. Meanwhile, Jarre was already working on his forthcoming grand concert to take place in Allborg, Denmark on September 7th. Staged in the middle of a windmill landscape, the show tried to integrate the sounds produced by the mills to the Allborg symphonic orchestra’s music of the percussions played by Danish Safri musicians. About 40,000 people attended the event.
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