Antigoon wrote:Jakob BC wrote:As far as I could understand Oxygene was a project between Jarre and Granger. Granger wanted Jarre to create music from the skull in earth picture.
The painting was done in 1975... Jarre saw it at an exhibition and liked it for his (unfinished) album he was working on... and one think led to another, but the painting was first completed anyway so...
It is possible that the painting inspired the music a bit, but that's all speculation IMO...
Maybe I'll ask Michel when I'm in Paris next week...
Ok the information I remember was the quote from Michel Granger himself in the Oxygene LIYLR sleeve. "A shared preoccupation brought JMJ and I together: Oxygen. He translaed it to music I to images." I don't know if that actally tells the whole thing, but to me it looks like a shared project.
