Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre reveals his brand new single ‘BRUTALISM’. The first track to be taken from his 22nd studio album ‘OXYMORE’. The album, one of his most ambitious projects to date, will be released on October 21st via Sony Music.
‘BRUTALISM’ is an unashamedly banging techno track that wouldn’t sound out of place at Berghain, the iconic Berlin club and the temple of the genre.
“That’s definitely a heavier track,” explains Jarre “I wanted to create an apocalyptic mood. Like a kind of big bang of Berlin techno, at the beginning when it was an explosion, that kind of feel, maybe due to the remains of the war.”
‘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’. Henry was an iconic figure in electronic and classical music, and one of Jarre’s influences at the Groupe de Recherche Musicales (GRM) where he studied. Since his death in 2017, Henry’s widow provided Jarre with some stems of material which had been intended for use in this collaboration.
‘OXYMORE’ is a musical journey where Pierre Henry's sounds interact with Jarre's world back-and-forth between analogue and digital sounds.
The project is inspired by the French movement ‘musique concrete’, a genre of music composition that utilises recorded sounds as raw material. The movement was first developed in the 1940s and went on to revolutionise the way music is produced. With ‘OXYMORE’, Jarre takes this concept and reinvents it with the tools of today.
