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Jean Michel Jarre: The Concerts in China

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Label: Disques Dreyfus
Released: 1982
Time:
 55:33
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jean Michel Jarre
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jeanmicheljarre.com
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Purchase date: 2003.01.04
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] The Overture (J.M.Jarre) - 4:47
[2] Arpegiator (J.M.Jarre) - 6:54
[3] Equinoxe 4 (J.M.Jarre) - 7:49
[4] Fishing Junks at Sunset (J.M.Jarre) - 9:38
[5] Band in the Rain (J.M.Jarre) - 1:29
[6] Equinoxe 7 (J.M.Jarre) - 9:55
[7] Orient Express (J.M.Jarre) - 4:22
[8] Chants Magnetiques I (J.M.Jarre) - 0:21
[9] Magnetic Fields III (J.M.Jarre) - 3:49
[10] Magnetic Fields IV (J.M.Jarre) - 6:49
[11] Laser Harp (J.M.Jarre) - 3:37
[12] Nuit a Shanghai (J.M.Jarre) - 7:02
[13] The Last Rumba (J.M.Jarre) - 2:11
[14] Magnetic Fields II (J.M.Jarre) - 6:26
[15] Souvenir de Chine (J.M.Jarre) - 3:54

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JEAN MICHEL JARRE - Synthesizer, Director, Drums, Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Elka, Bass Pedals, Fairlight, Mixing, VCS 3 Synthesizer, Oberheim Obxa, AKS

M. WANG ZHI - Performer, Art Direction
DOMINIQUE PERRIER - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Moog Synthesizer, Multi Instruments, Korg Synthesizer, Prophet 5, Kobol
FREDRICK ROUSSEAU - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Sequencing
PIERRE MOUREY - Synthesizer, Multi Instruments, Producer, Mixing Assistant
ROGER RIZZITELLI - Percussion, Drums, Electronic Sounds, Multi Instruments, Drum Machine, Electronic Percussion
ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DU CONSERVATOIRE DE PÉKIN - Orchestra
FREDERIC ROUSSEAU - Korg Synthesizer, Arp 2600

RENE AMELINE - Mixing
FRANCIS DREYFUS - Publishing
MARK FISHER - Design
RED SAUNDERS - Photography

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1994 CS Dreyfus 36143
1982 LP Polydor 3
1982 CD Polydor 811 551
1982 CD Dreyfus FDMCD18111
1982 CD Dreyfus FDMCD18112
1982 CD Dreyfus 811551-2
1982 CS Dreyfus 811551-4
1982 LP Dreyfus 811551-1



Jean Michel Jarre performed a handful of concerts in Peking and Shanghai in 1981, marking the first time that a modern Western musical artist had played in communist China. Sensing the historical importance of the event (and the career milestone it represented), a double-album of live music from these concerts was released the following year as Les Concerts en Chine. The release is half musical travelogue (featuring new pieces presumably inspired by China) and half career retrospective, with faithful reproductions of excerpts from Equinoxe and Les Chants Magnetiques ("Magnetic Fields") interspersed with new works and snippets of Chinese dialogue. There has always been a strong visual component to Jarre's live shows, which the listener is left out of on these recordings (small pockets of applause during some of the songs allude to the graphic goings on), but even without the lights and lasers this is engaging stuff. Highlights from the show include "Jonques de Pecheurs au Crepuscule" ("Fishing Junks at Sunset"), a welcome respite from Jarre's ultra-modern music that features a traditional Oriental arrangement, and new works like "Arpegiateur" and "Nuit a Shangai" that compare favorably with the brisk, streamlined sound of Tangerine Dream in the early '80s. Connecting these sections with dialogue and street noises (some of which, in the case of "Les Chants Magnetiques," have always been there) breaks up the concert nicely, although two light-hearted intermissions ("L'Orchestre Sous la Pluie" and "La Derniere Rumba") make too fine a point of it. Owners of Equinoxe and Magnetic Fields expecting to hear a new interpretation of these albums won't find any surprises on Les Concerts en Chine except a short ping-pong match inexplicably billed as "Les Chants Magnetiques I." The real attraction is the new music, and the newness that all of this must have held for its audience.

Dave Connolly - All Music Guide
 

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