Category: Discs

Eight years later from his last studio album, Téo & Téa in 2007, next October 16th 2015 Jean Michel Jarre will release his new album, with the working title E-Project. The release comes in various formats as standard CD, double LP, digital download and two box sets, one of them a deluxe box set handsigned by JMJ himself.

E-Project will contain 16 tracks and 15 collaborators, as the likes of Gesaffelstein, M83, Vince Clarke, Armin Van Buuren and 3D (Massive Attack). More collaborators will be revealed soon.

Next June 19 Jean Michel Jarre will release three limited edition vinyl (only 1000) of some new singles of his forthcoming (and yet unnamed) new album.

This time the singles will be Zero Gravity (with Tangerine Dream), Watching You (with Massive Attack) and the already known Conquistador (with Gesaffelstein). You can purchase the vinyls here:

Zero Gravity

Watching You

Conquistador

Also you can hear excerpts of these new tracks on the official Jarre’s Soundcloud.

Last friday April 17th, and almost by surprise, a new single by Jean Michel Jarre and the DJ, musician and french producer Gesaffelstein was released on Beatport. This single contains the original mix and two remixes. You can already purchase this single via Beatport.

Glory will be the first single of the forthcoming Jean Michel Jarre studio album (yet untitled and with non a clear release date by the moment). This track, made in collaboration with M83, is on iTunes on preorder. The single will be released next May 18th 2015.

In the web of Sony Music Germany we can find info about Glory and a new promotional picture of Jean Michel Jarre.

Next April 25 Sony Music will release the first bunch of the Jean Michel Jarre back catalog, starting with Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields, The Concerts in China, Houston/Lyon and Destination Docklands. There will be not bonus tracks and only iterations on the cover of Houston/Lyon and Destination Docklands albums. The Concerts in China album will be a 2CD release.

Today is available for download on iTunes the first in a series of new songs by Francis Rimbert.

With the launch of this pimer volume, “ACT1” we have been in contact with the protagonist and has commented:

“When I prepare a new album, normally delivery of the memories that come to mind from the meetings I have with musicians, friends, fans, etc..

In recent years on the road touring with JMJ, I have accumulated memories of places, people, moments away from time and many other emotions that make my life as a splendid caleidoscopo. Then what I try to do is turn these memories into music.

Furthermore, on the other side are all those artists who come to spend a few hours in my studio, just for the pleasure of sharing our musical ideas.

That is why we decided to carry out a series of albums with different styles and where you can find different influences.

To start this first act I’ve chosen a fun and rambunctious group named AT KEYS.

Also, my daughter AMBRE at that time was working as a dancer in Disneyland with a group called Les tabards of Feu.

So with all this, and with my inseparable Marie-Laure we took a trip to the forest with all this gang to produce 3 videoclips, simple but fun with the sole ambition of fun. Hence arose two of the tracks of this : ACT 1: JOANNA (originally written for a Polish friend) and WHAT’S UP.

We spent hours very funny, very good times bring out in me a smile every time I see these clips. So this ACT1 begins with a note of good humor.

On the track FEET you can hear a howl through a phone and speaking in broken English saying something like “I am your servant.” The rest of this track, very funky indeed develops with these voices in English.

Finally, MEPHISTO, you can hear an acoustic guitar that gives a clear Spanish accent. This theme I composed especially for JUAN GOMIS, the webmaster of my website in Spain as well as the distributor of my albums in Spanish territory. Juan is more than a friend, is a formidable friend with a smile that can light the darkest night.

ACT1, now available on iTunes to 0.99 € each track:

1 – Joanna (3:22)

2 – Fet (3:57)

3 – Mephisto (3:51)

4 – What’s up (3:22)

http://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/francis-rimbert-friends-vol./id523182553