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Oct 2018
29m 44s

Episode 5: The Future

Jean-Michel Jarre and Matt Berry
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In 2018 Jean-Michel Jarre announced two album projects. The first is the career-spanning collection "Planet Jarre" for which he dug deep into his vaults and arranged in an innovative thematic way. The second is the upcoming "Equinoxe Infinity", an exciting new project based around artificial intelligence which revisits the themes of his classic album "Equino ... Show More
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