Metamorphoses was performed live during Jean-Michel Jarre's concert Twelve Dreams Of The Sun at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt on December 31, 1999. For the studio version of this concert, Jarre spent three months in a studio in the South of France in 1999. Metamorphoses differs from his earlier work. The CD is a mix of techno, trance and world music, in which the large number of vocal contributions
… stands out. We find on the opening track Je Me Souviens and the contribution of Natasha Atlas creates a cross-fertilization between Western electronic music and Eastern singing. The synthesizer and the computer are still the basis for Jarre, but he also uses 'normal' musical instruments. from groupgives Rendez-vous A Paris an unexpected Irish touch. Another notable track is Hey Gagarin, which pays tribute to the first Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin to a driving beat and with vocal samples. (CK)more
