Jean-Michel Jarre is completing his Oxygène trilogy this December

Jarre's new album, his second of 2016, will be following 1976's Oxygène and 1997's Oxygène 7-13. It's set to feature seven tracks (taking the total to 20) which were recorded over six weeks during the creation of Electronica Vol 2: The Heart Of Noise.

"I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much," says Jarre of the record. "But when I was recording Electronica, two years ago, I did a piece of music ('Oxygene 19') that made me think about what Oxygène could be if I was composing it today. What made the first Oxygène so different at the time was probably the minimalist aspect, and the fact that there are almost no drums, and I wanted to keep this approach, creating the groove mainly with the sequences and the structure of the melodies only. I did the first Oxygène on an 8-track tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist. I tried to keep this minimalist approach for Oxygène 3."

The album will reunite Jarre with French artist Michel Granger, whose iconic skull painting is on the cover of the first Oxygène instalment.

Tracklist:

• Part 14
• Part 15
• Part 16
• Part 17
• Part 18
• Part 19
• Part 20