Q.10 How important is the album cover artwork?
JMJ: 'I always thought that the album cover is very important. Even more important for what I'm doing than for an album made of songs. The idea is to try to give an opportunity to have a kind of visual continuation. So for this part of the project I wanted to work with the artist who did the first one, obviously. And he's a French artist called Michel Granger and he did a few covers for me. One was Oxygene, Equinoxe, and Rendez-Vous also, and this new one had to also be a kind of continuation for him. And he went with the idea of reversing the process where you had a human skull, a human presence in the earth for the first one and on the cover of the second one is the earth inside a human figure. The first one it was a not necessarily a statement but it was linked with all this ecological problems that the late 70s had to face.
By the end of the century it is more linked to, I would say, surviving day to day life. And I like very much the idea of Michel Granger about having the earth inside a human figure and the earth is the heart of that guy, of this creature. And I think it's good when you put the covers back to back it's quite interesting, it's a nice graphic statement. I like this kind of poetic way of continuing the first idea.'