Geometry of Love [Import]

Track Listings

1. Pleasure Principle

2. Geometry of Love, Pt. 1

3. Soul Intrusion

4. Electric Flesh

5. Skin Paradox

6. Velvet Road

7. Near Djaina

8. Geometry of Love, Pt. 2

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Subtitled - Project By Jarre For VIP Room. Sound design by Jean-Michel Jarre for one of the trendiest clubs in Paris. Digipak. Warner. 2003.

Geometry of Love,Jean Michel Jarre,Aero Prod,Adult Alternative,Electronic,France,New Age,Progressive Electronic

Tracks:

Main Title 2nd Season
The Geometry Of Shadows III
Sheridan & Father
Mobilization
The Big Battle
The Signal
Awakening
Countdown
Main Title 3rd Season
Into The Abyss
Begin To Attack The Shadows
Emergency Treatment
The Geometry Of Shadows II
The Geometry Of Shadows I
Main Title 4th Season
Main Title 5th Season
Dying Station
Bonus Theme

Customer Reviews:

Good, not great.......2007-01-07

There are some gems on this CD. Most of the music is nondescript when you listen to it; it is much more suited to being the background music of a TV show, of course. In other words, it's not like regular music you get on a regular commercial band's CD. In my opinion, the best songs are the Main Titles, in particular the 5th season.

Indeed it is........2007-01-05

With his compositions Franke shows how much he understands the B5 universe
of JMS. A true epic.

Wonderful!.......2001-11-05

This is a wonderful sound track. Chirstopher Franke catches the mood of the series with his music and it sounds even better when you listen to a recording, away from the episodes. Buy this.

This really is the Best of Babylon 5!.......2001-11-04

Thank you to Christopher Franke and Sonic Images for The Best of Babylon 5! Although I have most of these tracks on other B5 CD's, I really enjoyed this one because of the consistently great music. I would rank this one as excellent, along with my other two favorites, Babylon 5 Volume 2, "Messages from Earth" and the episodic CD, "Sleeping in Light." Two tracks deserve special mention: Track 2 is (I believe) a reworking of music from the album Babylon 5 Volume 1. With the "Battle of the Line" music in the background, Chris Franke adds new ideas to enhance the musical experience. The other notable track is the last one, Track 18 "Bonus Theme." This is a fabulous new track, which I understand was written for the (unfortunately never released) Babylon 5 CD-Rom game. This is six minutes of great music, that cannot be mistaken for anything other than "Babylon 5-style" music. It's a thrilling piece, which alone makes me glad I bought the CD. Let's hope we get the same quality offering with the "Legend of the Rangers" movie soundtrack, which I hope will be released next year.

Average customer rating:

Jarre strikes again!
Must have for Jean Michel Jarre fans
A CD to have in your Jarre collection
What was I thinking?
Sigh. Just. Not. Original. Jarre.

Geometry of Love
Jean Michel Jarre
Manufacturer: Wea/Warner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000AKQG8
Release Date: 2003-09-15

Tracks:

Pleasure Principle
Geometry of Love, Pt. 1
Soul Intrusion
Electric Flesh
Skin Paradox
Velvet Road
Near Djaina
Geometry of Love, Pt. 2

Album Description

Subtitled - Project By Jarre For VIP Room. Sound design by Jean-Michel Jarre for one of the trendiest clubs in Paris. Digipak. Warner. 2003.

Album Details

Named after the Famous Paris Club of Jean Roch, the Vip Room. This 2003 Release is all Original Jarre Compositions with a Lounge Atmosphere.

Customer Reviews:

Jarre strikes again!.......2006-11-07

Jarre neither experienced an "erosion" nor did he drift from his "roots". He's an artist, and artists evolve. He uses music and sounds like a painter uses color and shading. If the artist painted the same bridge fifty times, using different colors each time, you'de get pissed. This album was a commissioned work for a nightclub/lounge, so yeah, it is lounge music. And I'd put it on for dinner company. You can even put it on while meditating, relaxing, reading, whatever. But it most definately has Jarre style, sound, and trademark all over it. His melodies change, his compositions change, but his style is - well - still there. It's very much Jarre. If you want Oxygene, then go buy that album. In the mean time this is some darn good chilling out music.

Must have for Jean Michel Jarre fans.......2006-04-14

As most JMJ fans know, he has being experimenting with new sounds and slightly got into this new age of lounge music.

I've been reading other reviews and there are two general opinions about this album and his latest works, such as Oxygene 7-13, Metamorphosis and Aero. Some fans think this is an evolution of his music, another phase of his mind; others think he has lost his musical personality.

Well, I think we probably got used to the sound of his previous albums, a "hardcore" Jarre. (Don't take me wrong, those albums are my favorites). All these new sounds are less extravagant but still have his colorful touch. A desperate attempt to gain the attention of new generations? Who knows, maybe we are the ones who have not evolved along with him.

Lets not forget that "Geometry of Love" it's just a project for a trendy club in Paris. It doesn't sounds like the Jarre we all know though. That's the reason why I only gave 3 stars to this album.

I am true hardcore Jarre fan, and I might follow him through any path he decides to walk.

A CD to have in your Jarre collection.......2005-08-26

New music is very good. Have listened to it quite a few times. Some of his old electronic instruments can be heard in the background on some tracks.

No Jarre fan should be without this CD

What was I thinking?.......2005-04-12

I bought this CD along with Aero, which to my mind is better. Although I had listened to both before buying, I guess I must have still been high on Aero. A week after I bought it, I played it and still think that Equinox 3, in both incarnations, is more romantic and sensual than this offering. Basically I found it boring.

I'm sorry Jean-Michel, if this is where you're going I dont want to go.

Sigh. Just. Not. Original. Jarre........2005-03-28

A quick sidebar here: Does anyone else notice the striking similarity between Jarre's "Near Djaina" and Brian Eno's "Among Fields of Crystal" from his "Ambient 2" album? Not only do both possess the same basic harmonic progressions and mood, but both are also using precisely the same shimmering piano effect. Hmmmmmm!

Overall this is quite listenable, but it's the kind of stuff that Supreme Beings of Leisure or William Orbit would do better. It's a bit ham-handed, as is most of his stuff from the last 15 years or so.

But where did Jarre go?? His "Equinoxe" is still unquestionably the pinnacle of the style, but I fear that he has strayed far, far, far off course. Like Klaus Schulze, he was on fire when he began, but he has produced little of any consequence since.

Average customer rating:

A Generous Packet of Art Songs by American Composer John Duke
just spring review... great CD

Just-Spring: Art Songs of John Duke

Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

Just-Spring
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Water that Falls and Runs Away
I Carry Your Heart
The Mountains Are Dancing
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Morning in Paris
There Will Be Stars
Good Morning, Midnight
Heart! We will forget him!
Bee! Im expecting you!
The Bird
Little Elegy
All Music, All Delight
Shes Somewhere in the Sunlight Strong
Bells in the Rain
Penguin Geometry
O, it was out by Donnycarney
Aubade
I cant be talkin of love
Walking in the Rain
Merry-go-round

Album Description

John Duke (1899-1984) is one of the acknowledged masters of the American art song. This release of twenty-three of his finest songs will afford lovers of vocal music the opportunity to discover Duke's little-known corpus. Comparison with the musical language of other notable American art song composers (Griffes, Loeffler, or Ives, for instance) reveals an unusually consistent and personal style throughout most of Duke's career, the composer venturing only slightly afield of a conventional tonal practice derived mostly from European music of the nineteenth century. Musical influences on his language, in fact, are almost entirely European; most of his songs have an accompanimental texture unmistakably his, continuing, in a way, the tradition of the German Lied, using poems in English.

Duke often claimed, both in his writings and in conversation with colleagues, to have developed his art song style somewhat self-consciously after having studied in great detail the historical, poetical, and musical contexts of three previous genres exhibiting a marriage of music and poetry: the Elizabethan song, the nineteenth-century Lied and the French mélodie of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His choice of poetry avoids almost completely the abstract in favor of the tried and true themes of love and mortality, themes that most composers have found the most suitable for musical treatment. Duke's music is taken very seriously by those who know his work intimately. After all, about how many American composers could it be said that all 265 songs have a natural feel for the voice, an elegantly matched pianistic accompaniment, a recognizable and personal style, and a musical language that never resorts to false syntax? It is easy to see why American singers love to sing his songs.

Customer Reviews:

A Generous Packet of Art Songs by American Composer John Duke.......2006-01-27

Though his name may not be a household word among American composers, to singers the lieder of John Woods Duke are a staple of the recital repertoire. A composer well respected in his lifetime (1899 - 1984), his 265 catalogued songs are the epitome of the marriage of text and music. His musical style never veered from melodic but his integration of poetry with his expressive understanding of the voice places him in the same category with Ives, Griffes, Rorem, Barber, Heggie et al.

This fine recital by soprano Lauralyn Kolb, a former student of the highly regarded Howard Swan of Occidental College and a sought after oratorio soloist and recitalist, with pianist Tina Toglia is a study in musical intelligence. Kolb's soprano voice is beautifully focused and her communication of the texts ranging from ee cummings, Emily Dickinson, Elinor Wylie, Sarah Teasdale, Robert Frost, Richard Nickson, Mark Van Doren to James Joyce is pristine and warmly sensitive. Her collaboration with Toglia demonstrates the way musicians should approach the art song. There are many excellent songs in this collection that could be singled out, but the pleasure of the recital is that the variety selected by the artists is very satisfying for a survey of works by a relatively unknown (to the public) composer. Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06

just spring review... great CD.......2005-08-20

fast shipment, everything recieved as promised. good seller to buy from. thank you.