J.M. Jarre Magazine – A kind of Fanclub or something like that
Pierre Garnier, PA to Jean Michel Jarre, has posted in his Facebook this image:
This image is from the forthcoming Monaco concert photobook. We don’t know about the price or release date of this item, but we will inform you about this when we know something.
And about the long awaited JMJ‘s new album some informations indicate that this album could be released towards the end of next October 2012, but this information is not 100% confirmed.
We will keep you informed…
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
Althought it seemed inevitable, this is one of those post I’d prefer not to write. Francisco Rico, also know as Paco or Fran passed away last night after a terrible and long illness.
Probably the more veterans in this website remembers Paco. He was the “daddy” of this great family popularly known as Fairlight Jarre, and one of the very first ones supporting this website/magazine in the middle 90’s. Others probably meet him in the Jarre Fan Meeting in Alicante, a couple of years ago.
Paco was’nt only a great friend, he was also an extrardinary person an a passionate about music.
See you soon, Paco.
Foto: Aleix Riera
Report made by Paco Rico for Fairlight Jarre Magazine (issue 3) in the middle 90’s:
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Thanks to Víctor Maqueda for the Scans
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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.
