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Over all these years Jean Michel Jarre has stated its desire to offer a concert in Australia. Last year these rumors about a possible Australian concert took renewed force when Jarre made a visit to Perth. The musician made several statements in which he remarked his desire to give a concert in Perth that will even serve to showcase his new album.
As usual, rumors of the concert in Perth were forgotten until today, March 1st: According oneperth.com, Jean Michel Jarre could make a concert at the Langley Park in Perth on 17 November 2012.
(UPDATE): The concert was unanimously approved by the city of Perth, so it would take place as planned.
Many of the musicians of our Forum are featured in the February number of Future Music magazine, in its spanish edition. The magazine contains a CD with 16 compositions of our musicians, with additional infos as gear used on every track. The musicians featured in the CD are:
– A.J ESPINAL
– ALIDAN
– COSMIC SOUND
– CYBORGDRIVE
– DIE STADT
– DIVIDED BY
– DREAMING
– ECLIPSIS
– G.R.O.K.
– JOSEDIGIT
– JUANMA71
– MR. ROBOTO
– NELMAN MUSIC SYSTEM
– RAÚL GONZALO
– SEQUENTIAL POINT
– XETHIS
From Fairlight Jarre we would like to thank to all these musicians for their hard work and great creativity, and a big thanks to Juanma71 (impulsor of the project) and the Future Music magazine team.
Cliff Hewitt, the drummer from Apollo 440, joined Jean Michel Jarre in his concerts in Paris in 1998: Nuit Electronique and iMac Night. Cliff was so kind to give us this interesting interview where he talk about his work with Jarre. Thank you, Cliff!
We are not talking about a new “Rarities” release from Jean Michel Jarre, but we are talking about some archives appeared on the Internet in the past few days.
Here we can find an unique video of Samuel Hobo singing the early Jarre tune “Zig Zag Dance”, surrounded by a bunch of girls dancing along the track.
And here, and thanks to Radio Equinoxe, we can find some very early and rare Jarre tracks like “Setyricon” (an early version of “Equinoxe 5”) and a fragment of the music composed by Jarre for the ballet “Dorian”.
The french label Rhino, from Warner Music, has released a compilation of film music in a 4 CD box titled “Soundtrack Maniac”. Here, among other artists as Mike Oldfield, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, etc, we can find Jean Michel Jarre with his track “Les Granges Brulees (Generique”). Here is the complete tracklist.
This box is only on sale in France and you can purchase it from amazon.fr.
Disques Dreyfus through digital download web Qobuz, released last October 21 new editions of Studio Masters (sound files taken directly from the mixing console, high quality, sampled at 24 bit/96 kHz. ) of the albums “Oxygene”, “Equinoxe” and “Magnetic Fields”.
This release (which was announced months ago in Fairlight Jarre) follows the path opened by the Studio Master edition of the album “Rarities”. The price of these digital downloads ranging from 11 to 14 euros.
More info here on the website of Qobuz.
We all remember the Irish group The Corrs. Sharon Corr was one of the members of The Corrs, who did a collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre in the track “Rendez-Vous à Paris”, part of the album “Metamorphoses”. Sharon now has a succesfull solo career with his latest album “Dream of You”. She has been kind enough to give this interview to Fairlight Jarre; we hope you enjoy it.
In late 2008 we talked about the release of a new biography of Jean-Michel Jarre, published in France: “Jean Michel Jarre, Le Magicien du son et de la lumère”, by Cöetquen Editions. Well, next October 28th will be launched in France the second edition of this book, updated through 2011 and the concert in Monaco.
“Before the Oxygene album come out, only some people were interested on synthesizers, and in what was called electro-acoustic music. With Oxygene, Jean Michel Jarre disturbed the waves and popularized a new genre of music, electronic music.
Followed by Michel Geiss, and the Jarre Tribe (Dominique Perrier, Francis Rimbert, Sylvain Durand, Frederic Rousseau, GuyDelacroix, Jo Hammer …), Jean Michel creates in his studio in Croissy sounds and album appealing millions of people around the world (more than 80 million albums sold to date).
On July 14, 79, Jean Michel Jarre and his producer Francis Dreyfus proposed an experimental concert in the Place de la Concorde of Paris with a mix of music, light and fireworks. The show was overcrowded, everyone was surprised, and it was something never seen before, a million spectators gathered to the concert. The concept of cities in concert just born in that very moment.
From Houston to Monaco, from Moscow to London Docklands, millions of people attended the concert of Jean MichelJarre. ”
This biography deals from Jarre’s childhood to the present day.
It contains a booklet of photos, where two members of the Forum of Fairlight Jarre, Ecocharlie (Juan Mora) and Sergio Keys have collaborated with some photographs and testimonies about the concerts of Santiago 2010 and Monaco 2011.
If you are interested in purchasing:
Coëtquen Editions
95,008 BP
Janzé 35150
France
http://www.coetquen.com/
You can pay via paypal or check-order.
Price 19 € in the editorial and in Amazon.fr, where you can preorder the book.
Natacha Atlas, the woman who bring “C’est la Vie” to life on the Jarre‘s “Metamorphoses” album, has kindly gave to Fairlight Jarre this brief interview. We hope you enjoy it.
