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Label: Disques Dreyfus
Released: 2000
Time:
 60:15
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jean Michel Jarre, Joachim Garraud
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jeanmicheljarre.com
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Purchase date: 2000.02.02
Price in €: 14,99



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[1] Je me Souviens (J.M.Jarre) - 4:24
[2] C'est La Vie (J.M.Jarre) - 7:16
[3] Rendez-Vous a Paris (J.M.Jarre) - 4:18
[4] Hey Gagarin (J.M.Jarre) - 6:31
[5] Millions of Stars (J.M.Jarre) - 5:40
[6] Tout est Bleu (J.M.Jarre) - 6:01
[7] Love Love Love (J.M.Jarre) - 4:25
[8] Bells (J.M.Jarre) - 3:48
[9] Miss Moon (J.M.Jarre) - 6:08
[10] Give me a Sign (J.M.Jarre) - 3:49
[11] Gloria, Lonely Boy (J.M.Jarre) - 5:32
[12] Silhouette (J.M.Jarre) - 2:29

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Jean Michel Jarre - Vocals, Processed vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Photography

Joachim Garraud - Drum programming, Sound design, Add. keyboards
Laurie Anderson - Vocals
Natascha Atlas - Vocals
Sharon Corr - Violin
Dieirde Dubois - Vocals
Lisa Jacobs - Vocals, Weather girl
Oliver Constantin - Vocals
Oliver Houlez - Vocals
Franck Noel - Vocals
Cullard Xiangquian - Weather girl
Ute Eckerfeld - Weather girl
Ozlem Cetin - Vocals
Yvan Cassard - String arrangement
Futureshock
Funkstoerung

Christopher Papendick - Add. bass keyboards
Farncis Rimbert - Add. keyboards
Salem Bnoumi - Oriental violin
Abdullah Chhady - Kanoun
Rabah Kalfa - Derbouka, Bendir
Jean Baptiste Saudray - Choir conductor
Fabrice Revault - Casting, recording foreign vocals

Fiona Commnis - Pers. assistant to JMJ
Patrick Pelamuergues - Technical assistance
Christphe Martin de Montagu - Technical consultant
Raphael Garroud - Production assistant
John Davis - Mastering

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2000 CD Dreyfus/Sony 36164
2000 CD Epic 4960222
2001 CD Sony International 496022
2001 CD Sony 496022
2004 CD Dreyfus 36164

2000 release from the European electronic music community's premier ambassador. 12 tracks including the single 'C'est La Vie'. Standard jewel case.



Recorded in 2000 and not available in the United States until 2004, Metamorphoses is another of those enormous productions by the French electronic music master. Offering a cycle of songs, Jarre and his platoon of keyboards -- a wonderful meld of cutting-edge and vintage technologies -- delve into the notion of change and evolution with a remarkable efficiency despite the plethora of guest vocalists and instrumentalists. His collaborations with Laurie Anderson ("Je me souviens") and Natacha Atlas ("C'est la Vie") are wonderfully successful. The former is a staggered sequencer-driven track whose pulse varies, throbs, and wanes as the vocals are articulated in syncopated fashion in alternating cadences. The latter is an Eastern-tinged house track, where elements of disco, breakbeat, and even jungle enter and leave the mix after leaving traces of themselves on what follows their articulation. Atlas sings and wails and whispers, following sequences of broken beats and ushering in acid house pulsations as a lonesome violins caresses the proceedings and the cut breaks wide open in a frenzy of longing and increasing tempos before a trancey set of beats takes it out. Other vocalists include Lisa Jacobs ("Millions of Stars"), Dierdre Dubois ("Miss Moon"), and Veronique Bossa ("Give Me a Sign") Because of its many colors, Metamorphoses is the most adventurous recording of Jarre's in a decade, and articulates his universal language of transcultural musicality and futuristic altruism fantastically.

Thom Jurek - All Music Guide



"Metamorphoses" is appropriately enough about changes it comes 23 years after "Oxygene" arrived as a breath of fresh air and is Jean-Michel's first fully vocal album.

We find Laurie Anderson, Jean-Michel's own treated voice, or the sensual Natasha Atlas enhancing his music in a true cross-pollination of sounds and cultures. Re-emphasing the music, and taking a broadside at his own "mystique", not only by singing, but by appearing clear, present and very human, Metamorphoses delivers what we have all been waiting for: a new Jarre for 2000

www.jeanmicheljarre.com



On January 31, Jean Michel Jarre's new album "Metamorphoses" will be released. Featuring twelve new tracks linked by the theme of change and transformation, Metamorphoses took a year to write and three months to record at a studio in a remote region of the south of France, assisted by long time Jarre musician Francis Rimbert.

The Album
Metamorphoses differs from previous Jarre albums in that it is a heavily vocal oriented album. Alongside Jarre's own augmented vocals, there are stunning performances from American multimedia artist Laurie Anderson (on "Je me souviens"), who first worked with Jarre on his 1984 album Zoolook. Chanteuse Natacha Atlas features on the spell binding centrepiece "C'est la vie", which is the first single from the new album.

Sharon Corr from Irish supergroup The Corrs ads to the international line-up by playing violin on the track "Rendez-vous a Paris" while the enigmatic vocalist Deirde Dubois from Ekova provides the entrancing vocals on "Miss Moon".

Elsewhere on the album, "Bells" manages to encompass Orbital, reggae and Ennio Morricone in its memorable Cold War atmospherics. "Love, Love, Love" is a dispassionate comic duet with a computer. "Millions of Stars" is, perhaps, closest to the "Jarre of yesterday" announcing the notes to be played to spine-tingling effect. It features some sounds which remind you of oxygene and equinoxe and nice vocoded vocals. "Gloria Lonely Boy" takes the Almodovar drag queen and places her up to her neck in exquisite dubby electronic feedback. One of the most striking tracks on the album is "Hey Gagarin", a synth driven collection of beats and vocal samples that pays tribute to the first astronaut to venture into space, Yuri Gagarin. "Hey Gagarin" evokes images of interplanetary travel and symbolises mans endless voyage of discovery.

Metamorphoses was performed live for the first time during Jean Michel Jarre's "Twelve Dreams of the Sun" concert at the pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

www.jarre.net



Monsieur Jarre ist eigentlich permanent in der Zwickmühle. Er scheint gefangen zwischen seinem frühen Erfolg mit Oxygene, seiner Begeisterung für Innovation (er liebt Weltmusik, Goa Trance und "intelligente" Technomusik) und einem ausgeprägten Hang zu kitschigem Bombast. So gerät auch sein 2000er Album Metamorphoses - ist der Name Programm? - zu einer inoffiziellen Werkschau mit illustren Gästen wie Natacha Atlas und Laurie Anderson, die auch schon seinerzeit bei Jarres gutem, aber kommerziell wenig erfolgreichen Album Zoolook mitwirkte. Der opening Track "Je me souviens" erinnert denn auch eben an jenes Album, während ihm mit "C'est la vie" eine sehr zeitgemäße World Dance Fusion gelingt, ein druckvoller Uptempo-Track mit schönen Vokal-Arabesken von Natacha Atlas.
Natürlich kann er es nicht lassen, zwischendurch Vocoder und seine berühmte Laser-Harfe anzuwerfen, was den meisten Stücken ein beinahe anrührendes Retro-Flair verleiht. "Bells" etwa macht seinem Namen alle Ehre und klingt tatsächlich ein wenig nach Mike Oldfield. Andere Stücke verraten eine gewisse Nähe zum Enigma-Projekt des Kollegen Cretu, wobei es die Fairness gebietet, daran zu erinnern, dass Jarre den monumentalen Soundtrack-Pop schliesslich dereinst erfand und sich heute mit seinen Epigonen um Chart-Platzierungen balgen muss. Wir wünschen ihm dabei viel Glück.

Christian Arndt - Amazon.de
 

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