Great to hear that there is some new Jean Michel Jarre material coming out, and although some of it is familiar, there are some rarities that are finally seeing the light of day after decades.
The 2 CD set Essentials and Rarities features one disc of his better known material, the second featuring the less familiar music.
The rarities CD, probably the one that generates the most excitement features material from Jarre's pre-Oxygene career, where he was working with electronic music and soundtracks between 1968 and 1973, trying to fuse a more experimental and modern sound with a popular sensibility.
Before Oxygene made him one of the best known musicians in the planet, he released two earlier albums, 1972s Deserted Palaces - a collection of library music for film and TV producers and the soundtrack to the film Les Granges Brûlées.
Tracks from both releases feature on the new collection. Deserted Palaces although available in dubious bootleg form, has been out of print for decades, and Les Granges Brûlées although available on CD is not widely known and has been brought up to the highest possible sound quality.
The album also includes the track Erosmachine and La Cage from a 1970 single, both in their early form and in a 2010 remixed format.
While it could be argued that another Jarre compilation isn't really needed, the rarities disc certainly is. Now all we need is Music for Supermarkets appearing in a remixed HD master format
The album Essentials and Rarities is released on May 30
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