Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 2: The Heart Of Noise (2016)

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Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise is the fifteenth studio album of French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre. It is the second of a two-part album (the first being Electronica 1: The Time Machine) that is based around collaborations with other electronic musicians from a wide range of decades and styles. Electronica 1 included artists such as Vince Clarke, Gesaffelstein, M83, Armin van Buuren, John Carpenter, 3D (of Massive Attack), Pete Townshend, Tangerine Dream, and others, while Electronica 2 is expected to include collaborations with Pet Shop Boys, Rone, Julia Holter, Primal Scream, Gary Numan, Hans Zimmer, Edward Snowden, Peaches, Sébastien Tellier, The Orb, Siriusmo, Yello, Jeff Mills, Cyndi Lauper and Christophe. In all, the two-album collaboration is expected to have as many as 30 collaborators, and Jarre has described it as his "most ambitious project." The Heart of Noise is a tribute to Luigi Russolo who proposed in 1913 in his futurist manifesto the Art of Noises a number of conclusions about how electronics and other technology will allow futurist musicians to "substitute for the limited variety of timbres that the orchestra possesses today the infinite variety of timbres in noises, reproduced with appropriate mechanisms". Russolo states that ''noise" first came into existence as the result of 19th century machines.

Jean-Michel Jarre's two-part Electronica series finds the French synthesizer guru in full-on Santana circa Supernatural mode, collaborating with a vast array of guest musicians ranging from veterans to younger artists. The second volume, released seven months after 2015's inaugural The Time Machine, is titled The Heart of Noise in reference to Italian futurist Luigi Russolo's 1913 manifesto The Art of Noises. Jarre has a keen ear for collaborators, ranging from his '80s synth pop peers to 21st century techno artists whose work carries on the legacy of his past innovations. As to be expected from such an extensive laundry list of guests, however, the end result is wildly inconsistent, and taken song by song, it's very much a hit-or-miss affair. A lot of the pairings make total sense on paper, and in many cases they don't necessarily do anything wrong, they just aren't particularly exciting. "Here for You" sounds exactly like what a Jarre/Gary Numan team-up should sound like, with a cruising midtempo synth pop rhythm and an unmistakably Numan-esque melody, but the tune itself doesn't end up being memorable. Similarly, "Brick England" is a typically anthemic Pet Shop Boys song, and Cyndi Lauper's Tinder-inspired "Swipe to the Right" is perky, neon dance-pop that sounds closer to Robyn than her own work. Again, neither are bad; they're just not notable. The most successful tracks are the ones that reflect Jarre's visionary spirit, as well as that of his cohorts. The Orb (who previously remixed Jarre's iconic "Oxygène" into their excellent 1997 single "Toxygene") mixes spoken samples from synthesizer inventors Léon Theremin and Bob Moog, as well as Theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, into a dense yet fluid collage, which is topped by the eerie sounds of the Theremin itself. Julia Holter makes a surprise appearance, adding her ethereal vocals to the shimmering synths of "These Creatures." Of the album's dancefloor-friendly tracks, the highlight is easily "Circus" (with Siriusmo), a playful, romantic take on choppy French house. Far less successful is Jarre's sappy, filter-heavy reworking of Primal Scream's "Come Together" (retitled "As One"), which is so cheesy it's hard to imagine why he even bothered creating it. The album's oddest cut is "Exit," which begins as an aggressive psy-trance track before slowing down to present a chopped-up monologue from exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden that pertains to privacy and freedom of speech. "The Heart of Noise" bookends the album, with its first part (a cinematic version featuring Rone) and more dissonant second part kicking it off, and the original demo concluding the release. As with the first volume of Electronica, the second is commendable for its scope and its attempt to bridge several generations of electronic music, but as a listening experience, it requires a fair amount of cherry-picking.

~ Paul Simpson, All Music

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Track List:

01. The Heart of Noise, Pt. 1 (feat. Rone) [0:04:25.47]
02. The Heart of Noise, Pt. 2 [0:04:10.04]
03. Brick England (feat. Pet Shop Boys) [0:04:01.00]
04. These Creatures (feat. Julia Holter) [0:03:40.37]
05. As One (feat. Primal Scream) [0:03:58.38]
06. Here For You (feat. Gary Numan) [0:03:59.00]
07. Electrees feat. (Hans Zimmer) [0:04:09.70]
08. Exit (feat. E.S.) [0:06:19.05]
09. What You Want (feat. Peaches) [0:03:27.00]
10. Gisele (feat. Sebastian Tellier) [0:03:43.37]
11. Swithc on Leon (feat. The Orb) [0:04:42.73]
12. Circus feat. Siriusmo [0:03:08.65]
13. Why This, Why That and Why (feat. Yello) [0:03:58.12]
14. The Architect (feat. Jeff Mills) [0:04:43.00]
15. Swipe to the Right (feat. Cyndi Lauper) [0:04:54.00]
16. Walking the Mile (feat. Christophe) [0:04:52.00]
17. Falling Down [0:03:23.00]
18. The Heart of Noise (The Origin) [0:02:39.33]

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