Métamorphoses

Métamorphoses is the thirteenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released by Sony Music on January 24, 2000. It was released in the U.S. on Disques Dreyfus in 2004.

Métamorphoses
Studio album by Jean-Michel Jarre
Released	January 24, 2000 May 25, 2004
Recorded	1999
Genre	Electronica, dance, breakbeat, downtempo, electro, ambient, world music
Length	60:09
Label	Sony Music Disques Dreyfus
Producer	Jean Michel Jarre Joachim Garraud
Jean-Michel Jarre chronology
Odyssey Through O2 (1998) Métamorphoses (2000) Interior Music (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

This album was, to fans, a surprising break from his previous works, as it makes extensive use of vocal elements, as well as house, techno, trance, dance-pop, breakbeat, and downtempo sounds. The vocal elements are not short, sampled pieces as highlighted in his album Zoolook, but longer, more integral parts of the work, and thus quite surprising for an artist known for his instrumental works. Métamorphoses is also Jarre's first album to contain actual songs with lyrics. Jarre's own voice is heard through a vocoder in many of the songs, but the album contains several other voices as well, mostly of female singers. "Rendez-vous à Paris" features Sharon Corr on violin. "Rendez-vous à Paris" and "Bells" are the only largely instrumental tracks on the album; in the former only the track title is repeated in rhythm, the latter does not have intelligible lyrics. Although the album was generally not badly received by critics, and despite the collaborations and a number of single releases ("C'est la vie" and "Tout est bleu"), Jarre did not achieve great mainstream success with this album.