EōN by Jean-Michel Jarre 4+

I don’t tend to pay for apps and certainly not this much. Having read reviews, seen an online demo and listening to online examples I took the plunge. No regrets. So simple to use if you enjoy JJ sounds or soundscapes. Melodies and beats follow each other as if listening to endless new JJ albums. The odd one doesn’t work - no problem, just restart. Similarly, there are times I wished I could record awesome sections to use in own imaginary compositions - shame I don’t play but I bet many musicians and JJ fans could and do. There is/was a competition going so I look forward to the results. Can you interact with the app? No. That would be cool though. Perhaps through a menu that lets you make some choices during a piece or at the start by stating fave JJ pieces and the app constructs around it.
Altogether, this comes as a must for JJ fans who wished they could hear more of his music. Honestly, this works.
Btw, first ever JJ experience was as 16 year old borrowing vinyl Concerts to China from library in 1984 and after intro heard Overture followed by Arpégiateur and Equinoxe lV; I was blown away! Electronic music and trance have been my daily diet ever since.
I have missed new decent music like that of JJ and TD (early work) so glad with this app. Please keep updating it.

Having spent many hours now playing this app both in the background while doing other things and right up front and immersed fully while watching the gorgeous visuals, overall I can’t recommend it highly enough. It goes where it likes, does exactly what it wants and takes you exploring with it. Sometimes it’s a slow, gentle trip sometimes it’s breakneck speed. Sometimes it’s both. Sometimes it’s neither.

It forces you to live in that exact moment right there, as at any time you may hear a beautiful passage of music or a transition for the first time knowing that you may never hear it exactly like that ever again due to the nature of the app. It’s fleeting, absorbing, exciting, surprising and spontaneous. Just how I like my music to be, I know that nature of it may drive some people crazy who like soak into the music they’re playing and get to know it with repeated listens but for me it’s perfect.

I have deep respect for Mr Jarre who created unique, otherworldly sounds with those early albums, still sounding streets ahead of anything now. Sounds electronically crafted and samples from his own recordings manipulated in the now legendary Fairlight. so why am I hearing familiar loops and samples from vst synths like Stylus RMX and Omnisphere ? There are some very nice ambient pieces now and again but when the drum loops kick in it kills it for me and I have to press reset. I am sure as this, as a growing app, will be developed along the way with a larger library of sounds but I would just like to hear sounds made with the Jarre stamp and not off the shelf loops that are available to all. I just want that same kind of excitement as when I first heard Zoolook, which blew me away with it’s off the wall innovation. I do hope more of his old library of sounds are released into this app in the future. Even samples from the wonderful piano track on Waiting For Cousteau would be nice to hear in this kind of app. For me also the graphics could be more varied as they seem a little pedestrian after a while but I am sure it will grow and have every faith in JMJ to deliver.