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Prog NOVEMBER 18, 2022 - by Jerry Ewing

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE TEAMS UP WITH BRIAN ENO FOR EPICA EXTENSION

Jean-Michel Jarre released his latest album Oxymore in October

Jean-Michel Jarre has teamed up with fellow electronic music pioneer Brian Eno for a reworking of the song Epica, taken from his most recent studio album Oxymore, which he released in October.

The reworked track is out now, under the title Epica Extension.

"When I started Epica, I immediately thought that Brian Eno could be involved in this most rhythmic track of the album, thinking that he could bring his signature 'ambient' touch in reworking the track - another kind of Oxymore," says Jarre.

Oxymore is an homage to the late French composer Pierre Henry, with whom Jarre had been intending on collaborating for Jarre's Grammy-nominated project album Electronica. A musical journey where Pierre Henry's sounds interact with Jarre's world back-and-forth between analogue and digital sounds and inspired by the French movement 'musique concrete'.