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Jean-Michel Jarre.nfo
Jean-Michel Jarre
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1976 Ultra Disc 2007
1978 Equinoxe
1981 Magnetic Fields
1984 Zoolook
1986 Rendez-Vous
1988 Revolutions
1990 Waiting for Cousteau
1993 Chronologie
1997 Oxygene 7-13
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Pioneer of one of the fastest growing trends in the industry today, electronic
music, composer Jean-Michel Jarre elevated the genre to new peaks of popularity
date. Emerging as an innovative international superstar, he creates a new format
of out-door concert performance that has contributed to break the ground for a
new generation of out-door live cultural events.
Multifaceted artist, Jean-Michel Jarre is also composer and lyricist of
milestone hits in his native France and composer of international movie
soundtracks. Apart from his activities directly linked to musical composition,
Jean-Michel Jarre has been spokesperson for IFPI and has headed various lobbies
for Internet copyright legislation before the European Parliament. Since June
2013 Jarre was elected president of CISAC succeeding the late Robin Gibb.
Jean-Michel Jarre is also, for the past two decades, UNESCO spokesperson and
Ambassador contributing to the awareness of two key UN Millennium projects
1970-1979
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Having followed formal studies of harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatoire
de Paris, he was inspired to reinvent music at its core, with his own singular
vision, deploying the technology and tools of his epoch.
Between 1968 and 1972, after having worked with Pierre Schaeffer in the GRM
(Group for Musical Research), he composes and produces a series of electronic
introduce electronic music into the sanctuary of the Paris Opera House, with the
During 1973-74 he composes and/or writes the lyrics for, and artistically
two key albums, Les Paradis Perdus and Les Mots Bleus.
Olympia Theatre, in Paris.
1974-75 brings him to Los Angeles where he writes and produces two albums for
and Ray Parker Junior.
In 1976, he hits the top of the charts worldwide with breakthrough album Oxygene
French record history remains unequalled today with sales in the region of 12
million.
a year later he also revolutionises the concert performance scene by creating
what was to be the first of his ongoing outdoor concert-events at Place de la
Concorde in Paris to a live audience of 1 million, earning his first entry in
the Guinness Book of Records for the largest attendance. 1979 Peter Weir asks
him to score Gallipoli, starring the debut actor Mel Gibson.
1980-1989
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becomes the first Western musician to be invited to perform in post-Mao Red
China. His concerts in Beijing and Shanghai, make history in the line of
cultural events in the country and are shared by 500 million listeners and
A double LP, Concerts in China, is released the following year, a musical
souvenir of the Chinese adventure.In 1983, Jarre provokes a stir by putting up
for auction the unique copy of Music for Supermarkets at the Hotel Drouot
Auction House in Paris and having the plates destroyed in presence of a bailiff.
Jarre wanted to stress the value of music as an artistic creation as he foresaw
its future devaluation in being aligned with mass consumer goods on shelves of
supermarkets.The LP was for a long time one of the most sought-after collectors
in history.
Zoolook is released in 1984. It is voted Instrumental Album of the Year in the
reaches into a new artistic direction and works with Laurie Anderson, Adrian
Belew and Marcus Miller. He uses a multitude of foreign language intonations and
for the first time in music production a record number of samples.
In 1986, Jean-Michel Jarre stages a memorable state-of-the-art concert on the
Houston skyline in the U.S. in collaboration with the City Hall and NASA. 1.3
million Americans camped for hours to share the event and Rendez-Vous, the new
album. The live attendance in Houston gained Jarre his second entry in the
Guinness Book of Records and People Magazine elected the European musician
Person of the Year. To celebrate his homecoming to France a few months later,
visit in October. His native town and region turned out en masse (1 million).
He contributes to movie Nine and a Half Weeks by Adrian Lyne starring Kim
Basinger and Mickey Rourke.
1987 sees the release of Houston-Lyon, Cities in Concert, a live double album.
Jean-Michel Jarre is awarded two Victoires de la Musique, Instrumental Album of
the Year for Rendez-Vous and Concert of the Year for Houston.
In 1988 he releases Revolutions, one of the first encounters of electronic music
and the Arab world of instruments and sounds.
appalling weather conditions. 250,000 tickets sold like lightning as the
British, being among his most fervent supporters from day one, would not miss
this event, including close friend H.R.H. Princess Diana.
1990-1999
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of the famous oceanographer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was the inspiration for this
work. On July 14th, Jean-Michel Jarre creates and performs his most spectacular
to a live crowd of a staggering 2.5 million. Images, a compilation of his most
popular themes, is released in 1991 and he stages in 1992 three outdoor concerts
at Lost City in South Africa. Jean-Michel Jarre has also signed the music for a
1992 documentary-film Palawan, directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
1993 sees the release of Chronologie (Victoire de la Musique 1994), a voyage
through the mechanism and evolution of Time.
Jean-Michel Jarre teams up with Swatch for his first ever tour: Europe in
Concert. The sold-out tour brings him across sites from the Mont-Saint-Michel to
French artist and one of the few internationals to play sold-out in these
venues.
From Europe to Asia, in 1994 Jarre is invited to open the new stadium in Hong
Kong and brings some of his Chinese musical souvenirs back to the local
community.
1995: Jarre is back in Paris, this time at the foot of the Eiffel Tower for his
Concert for Tolerance under the High-patronage of UNESCO for which he is
Ambassador for two years. Always faithful, his audience counts 1.2 million. The
government.
In 1997 Jean-Michel Jarre releases Oxygene 7-13; more than a sequel to the
earlier album, Jarre had the idea to situate his early inspiration in new light,
two decades later. The Oxygene Tour this same year sold-out 25 dates across
Europe.
The City of Moscow invites Jarre to perform his largest ever concert as a
statement of modernity, for the people who have followed his music over the
years in difficult conditions. Nobody could have foreseen the impact of this
invitation as the Russians came some 3.5 million-strong to show their welcome
were not disappointed, as Jean Michel himself had reserved a sizeable surprise
as he introduced his special guests, the astronauts from MIR on a live video
link from space.
1998: Jarre collaborates with British group Apollo 440 to produce Rendez-vous
98, a single for the official World Cup football album. ITV, in the U.K., adopt
the single for their broadcast of the competition. On July 14th, forty-eight
On December 31st 1999, Jean-Michel Jarre is commissioned by the Egyptian
government to create and perform a historic Millennium concert, from sunset to
sunrise, at the foot of the Great Pyramids near Cairo. He succeeds, during this
concert, in catalysing a realm of talent and instruments from different ages and
civilisations; traditional Arabic, symphonic orchestra and electronic. An
audience of 120,000 were privileged to share the event on-site, while over 2
billion followed the concert on world television and just over 2 million
connected for an average of 35 minutes on the worldwide web.
2000-2008
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Laurie Anderson, Natacha Atlas, Deirdre Dubois (Ekova) and Sharon Corr (The
Corrs).For the dawn of 2001, Jean-Michel Jarre teams up with his favourite
Rendez-Vous in Space. The state-of-the-art musical and visual odyssey is staged
mark the true arrival of the new Millennium.
June, the same year, Jarre performs two exclusive concerts at the ancient
theatre, Herodus Atticus Odeon, at the Acropolis in Athens. Commissioned by the
Greek Ministry of Culture, he composes Akropolis, a theme for symphonic
orchestra dedicated to the historical site for the future.In 2001, Jarre
composes the original soundtrack for Qui veut devenir une star ?, the first
feature film of young debut director Patrice Pooyard.
of the cable channel, and by Bang & Olufsen for the visual and sound design of
1On the 7th of September 2002, Jean-Michel Jarre chooses the north of the
Kingdom of Denmark to celebrate the Wind and renewable energies in a once again
totally singular site: a windmill farm near the city of Aalborg, where 50,000
paying audience attend.
album is constructed in surround sound and Dolby digital 5.1. Like the
October 2004, Jean-Michel Jarre performs a historical concert in Beijing at the
Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. An audience of over a billion followed the
event live on Chinese TV (CCTV four different channels), NHK Japan and French
national TV.
August 2005, Nobel Peace Prize, Lech Walesa, invites Jean-Michel Jarre to
in front of a paying audience of 170.000. Over 7 million TV viewers followed the
concert Live on Polish national television, TVP1.
December 2006, in partnership with UNESCO, Jean-Michel Jarre conceived &
musicians.
December 2007 : To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the seminal album Oxygene,
concerts, where he performed the entire masterpiece, with the help of three
musicians and deploying the original mythical instruments; more than fifty
legendary analogue synthesizers.
2008 saw Jean Michel carry the Oxygene electro-acoustic theatrical project
revelled in sharing this unique experience, up-close and personal.
2009-2014
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In 2009 Jarre embarks on his first ever arena tour inviting the audience to
of timeless music and vision. With this unique and brand-new super production he
shares the energy of his macro concerts with the emotions of an arena
experience.
With the fusion of analogue synthesizers, cutting-edge digital technology,
spectacular lasers design and lighting choreography, Jarre conceived a show that
encapsulates his signature expression and talent for creating milestone events.
The 250-date tour, across 30 countries, sees Jarre sell-out some of the most
important venues in Europe : O2 arenas in London, Berlin, Dublin & Hamburg,
high-tech hardware brand, with the aim to put the emotion and quality back into
the audio & musical listening experience, which he deems has been perversely
neglected in favour of convenience of data.July 2011: HSH Prince Albert II of
Monaco called upon Jean-Michel Jarre to celebrate his Royal Wedding by creating
and performing a concert-event in the Principality which was largely broadcast
on television & Internet worldwide to an estimated audience of 3 billion and #6
Twitter Trend.
June 6, 2013 at the World Creators Summit in Washington DC, Jarre is elected
President of CISAC (the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and
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