Geometry of Love is an album

Album

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 by Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

, released in 2003. It is his twelfth studio album

Studio album

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 and his first release on Warner Music.

This album has more in common with the preceding Sessions 2000

Sessions 2000

Sessions 2000 is an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus and distributed by Sony Music in 2002. It was released in the U.S. in early 2003. It is his eleventh overall studio album....

 album than releases prior, but the style here is still more electronica

Electronica

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 than jazz

Jazz

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. The music was to be lounge music

Lounge music

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, played in the background or in the chill-out area of a club

Nightclub

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. The album was commissioned by Jean Roch, as a soundtrack for his 'VIP Room' nightclub in France

France

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 . The CD was initially meant to come out in only 2000 copies. However, it was later released as a generally available CD. It has now been discontinued and copies of it are not being pressed anymore, but it is still available in digital download format. The album was largely produced using Propellerhead

Propellerhead Software

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's Reason  and many preset patches can be heard throughout .

The track "Velvet Road" is a remake of the unreleased composition "Children of Space" created by Jarre for the "Rendez-Vous in Space" concert in Okinawa

Okinawa, Okinawa

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, in 2001. Some of the sounds in Geometry of Love were used earlier on Interior Music

Interior Music

Interior Music is an album by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in as a special release for Bang & Olufsen in 2001. The album consists of two atmospheric and lengthy tracks; the first track, "Bonjour Hello", is a collage of sounds with voices saying short sentences in French, English and Danish...

 released in 2001. Several tracks from Geometry of Love were included on Jarre's 2006 compilation release Sublime Mix

Sublime Mix

Sublime Mix is an album by Jean Michel Jarre, released in 2006 as a special limited edition promo for Jaguar France. The album features a continuous mix of six tracks taken from Geometry of Love and Live Printemps de Bourges 2002...

.

Trivia

• The album cover image is a pixelated photo, tilted 90 degrees
  Degree (angle)
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   to the left, of the pubis
  Mons pubis
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   of Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...
  
   , Jarre's girlfriend at the time.

Track listing

1. "Pleasure Principle" – 6:15
2. "Geometry of Love Part 1" – 3:51
3. "Soul Intrusion" – 4:45
4. "Electric Flesh" – 6:01
5. "Skin Paradox" – 6:17
6. "Velvet Road" – 5:54
7. "Near Djaina" – 5:01
8. "Geometry of Love Part 2" – 4:06

External links

• Geometry of Love at Discogs
  Discogs
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• Geometry of Love at JarreUK
• Geometry of Love at Jarrography