The Jean Michel Jarre‘s Official Store is now online, where you can purchase official items from his last tour, by clicking here.
www.jeanmicheljarre.com Re-Launched
Yestarday, the official Jean Michel Jarre web page (www.jeanmicheljarre.com) was re-launched. With a new design from BDFCK, this new site contains sections about news, biography discography and an official forum.
This is the first time since the creation of the official website in 1997 that is Jarre himself and his team, and not any record company, whom owns the total control of the official page.
Concert in Canary Islands Cancelled
It seems that the project of a concert by Jean Michel Jarre and Brian May in Canary Island’s site Roque de los Muchachos for the inauguration of the GTC has been cancelled.
Tough Fairlight Jarre had knowledge about this issue few days ago via a close source to Jarre himself, yesterday Dr. Garik Israelian confirmed this circumstance saying that “unfortunately we are not going to make the concert in the day of the inauguration of GTC due lack of money. We are going to continue fighting to obtain the funding for the concert and I hope some day we could manage to realize our dream. It will be this year or next year”.
Thank you very much to Dr. Israelian for this kindness and dedication all this months.
Maurice Jarre (1924-2009)
Maurice Jarre, famous for his compositions for cinema and father of Jean Michel Jarre, passed away in Los Angeles last March 29, aged 84.
Winner of three Oscars (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India) and lots of other awards (the last of them, the Berlin’s Festival Golden Bear last February), composed the music of more than 15o films and worked with the finest directors of the history of cinema, like Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, John Houston, David Lean, etc…
The relation with his son Jean Michel was not easy because the split of Maurice and France Pejot, Jean Michel’s mother, and the departure of Maurice to America to work on Hollywood. But, the relation of Maurice and Jean Michel became more and more closer on recent years: A proof of this is the special composition which Maurice gave to Jean Michel as a gift in his wedding with Anne Parillaud in 2005; and Jean Michel was seated on the first row of the Lyon Auditorium on the concert that celebrated the 50 years of Maurice‘s career. The very last proof of this closer relationship was that Aero Productions, production agency of Jean Michel Jarre, gave the news about Maurice Jarre‘s die to the media.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy talked about Maurice Jarre saying that “his work was majestic and generous, classic and popular”, and transmitted his sorrow to Jean Michel Jarre “to whom could transmit his passion for music”.
Rest in peace, monsieur Maurice Jarre.
“The Concerts In China” DVD: Official Press Release from Dreyfus Music
Some copies of “The Concerts in China” DVD have been sold on Ebay, so Fairlight Jarre contacted with Francis Dreyfus Music whom sent us an official press release:
Thank you for alerting me on the availability of the China Concerts DVD last week.
The cover artwork is indeed the same as the original vinyl album, CD and VHS.
After investigation, it appears that some copies of the DVD were sold in Australia during a very limited period in December 2008 despite the ban but this violation has been denounced and the distribution stopped.
I confirm that only Disques Dreyfus /Jean Michel Jarre, co-producers of the concert, have the rights to DVD exploitation.
The DVD release of this programme has not been planned so far but the Dreyfus and Jarre staffs are now considering it .Greetings.
Danièle
Thank you very much to Víctor “ZZERO” Maqueda and very specially to Danièle Feuillerat from Disques Dreyfus for this information.
New Book about Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre, le Magicien du son et de la lumière, is the title of the new biography book about Jean Michel Jarre written by Michael Duguay and edited by Editions Cöeqten. This book (in french) have 230 pages spanning Jarre’s musical career.
The book’s cost is 20 € plus 4 € of shipping costs and you can order the book directly from the editorial (payment via paypal) sending an email to: coetquenweb@wanadoo.fr
First Dates “IN-DOORS” World Tour (Updated 17/02/2009)
Some days ago, we talked about the project of a new Jean Michel Jarre Tour in 2009. Well, now it seems this project became a reality as we know the first dates of this project named “World Arena Tour”:
- 04/05/2009 Debrecen, Hungary. Fonix Csarnok
- 05/05/2009 Ostrava, Czech Republic. CEZ Arena
- 06/05/2009 Wroclaw, Poland. Hali Stulecia
- 08/05/2009 Arhus, Denmark. Atletion-NRGi Arena
- 09/05/2009 Herning, Denmark. Den Runde Hal-MCH
- 11/05/2009 Malmö, Sweden. Malmö Stadium
- 12/05/2009 Gothemburg, Sweden. Scandinavium
- 13/05/2009 Oslo, Norway. Spektrum
- 14/05/2008 Stockholm, Sweden. Hovet
- 16/05/2009 Helsinki, Finland. Hartwall Arena
- 20/05/2009 Glasgow, Scotland. Clyde Auditorium
- 22/05/2009 London, England. Wembley Arena
- 23/05/2009 Manchester, England. Evening News Arena
- 24/05/2009 Birmingham, England. National Indor Arena
- 26/05/2009 Amsterdam, Holland. Heineken Music Hall
- 27/05/2009 Brussels, Belgium. Vorst National
- 28/05/2009 Koblenz, Germany. Sporthalle Oberwerth
- 30/05/2009 Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstadion
Aero Productions have confirmed that this will be a “greatest hits” tour but it may include some unreleased pieces. The intention of Jean Michel Jarre is to tour during April, May and June 2009, so, of course, we will keep you updated with all news and new dates of this tour. We are discussing about this new project in our Forum.
Jean Michel Jarre on Fotonauts
Fotonauts, a community to show and share photos, features some great official photo albums about Jean Michel Jarre, updated every now and then. Most of the images are taken by Thomas Alsina, close collaborator of Jarre for almost ten years. There is a lot of images, the oldest ones from the Apple Expo show performed in Paris in 1998, and from most recent concerts like Beijing 2004, Merzouga 2006 and especially about the current “Oxygene in Concert” tour, featuring images of the instruments and musicians joining this tour. By clicking here you can enjoy the photo albums.
New Francis Rimbert DVD: Live in Lyon 2007
The new DVD from Francis Rimbert, Live in Lyon 2007, is out now. This DVD contains the full concert performed at the Victor Hugo Hall in Lyon, November 16, 2007 with a duration of 98 minutes. Also, this 
DVD features a making of, with a duration of 25 minutes.
This is the tracklist of the concert:
1- DAWN OF LIGHT
2- ELFE’S RACE
3- MEMORY OF LOVE
4- ACROSS THE FOG
5- HIDDEN MOVIE
6- GAELICK
7- NUT ROCKERS
8- WHAT IS LOVE
9- VIVA LA REVOLUCION
10- WOODOO
11- WOMEN’S LAND
12- MECANIQUE DU TEMPS
13- APOCALYPSE
14- THE DREAM IS OVER
15- RBF
In this concert, joining Francis Rimbert at the stage, were these personnel:
LoL – Guitar
Victor Paillet – Percussions
Nicolas Mills – Master of ceremonies
Angy Line – Vocals & Diva
Simone – Droid & screens
As ever, yo can purchase this DVD at the Czen Productions Store, at the Francisrimbert.com Webshop, and at the Official Spanish Francis Rimbert Store (15 € + shipping costs)
Future Music Proposal (Updated: 29/10/2008)
Future Music Spain, a lead publication about electronic music & instruments, has offered an interesting proposal to Fairlight Jarre’s highly talented musicians: It’s about to create a conceptual album based in a theme agreed by both the musicians and Future Music Spain. Together with the album, it will be published a brief interview with every musician who takes part in this project. Without doubt this is a great oportunity to expose widely the talent of our great musicians.
You can follow the evolution of this project in our FORUM or reading the following threads: (Link1) (Link2)
Some of the music the musicians involved in the Spanish Jarre scene can be heard in the Fairlight Jarre Music Station, which can be heard clicking in this logo:
Related Links:
Fairlight Jarre Music Station
Future Music Spain
Update 29/10/2008: Our friends of Future Music Spain have published a reference in their website about this interesting project that you can read clicking here. You can also read an online english translation.