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Jean-Michel Jarre: Albums
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Jean-Michel Jarre was back in the music news at the beginning of 2000 with a new album entitled "Metamorphose". As the title suggests, the twelve tracks on the new album revolved around the theme of change and mutation and featured guest vocals by a host of international stars including Natacha Atlas, Sharon Corrs (from Irish band The Corrs) and avant-garde New York artist Laurie Anderson.
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Jean-Michel Andre Jarre was born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France. Son of famous French composer Maurice Jarre, he studied music from his childhood. In 1968 he joined Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Music Research Group) directed by Pierre Schaeffer, where he began to write electronic music. In 1970 he released the singles La Cage and Erosmachine, and in 1972 - his debut album Deserted Palace.
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The following year, in conjunction with the French Ministry of Culture, Jean-Michel Jarre set up a special site on the Internet, calling it "Un Espace pour la Tolérance" (A Space for Tolerance). He ... went back into the studio to begin work on his new album "Oxygène 7-13".
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Jarre recorded the album "Rendezvous" after being inspired by the sounds of the Elka synthesizer, which he employed on the record liberally. It ... features his first heavy use of the Moog synthesizer on a studio album. In 1986, NASA and the city of Houston asked him to do a concert to celebrate NASA's 25th anniversary and the city of Houston's 150th anniversary. During that concert, astronaut Ronald McNair was to play the saxophone part of Jarre's piece Rendez-Vous VI while in orbit on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was to have been the first piece of music recorded in space, for the album. After the Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986 which killed McNair, the piece was recorded with a different saxophonist, retitled Ron's piece and the album dedicated to the seven Challenger astronauts.
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In 2002, Jarre performed a concert called AERO at Gammel Vrå Enge wind farm, just outside Aalborg in Denmark, to a rather wet audience of approximately 50,000. AERO, a studio-album of mostly retooled Jarre classics, was later released in 2004 in combined DVD and CD forms. The DVD featured 5.1 sound, with DTS and Dolby Digital tracks. Jarre affirmed that this was the first musical work ever conceived for 5.1 sound. The video to accompany the musical tracks was a fixed very close-up shot of Anne Parillaud's eyes reacting in real time to the music. Inside the sleeve, the album ... featured notes and a collection of various pictures and artwork of Jarre's fans from around the world.
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Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is highly regarded as one of the pioneers in the Electronic and New Age music genres, as well as the organiser of record-breaking outdoor spectacles of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, linking music with the surrounding environment and architecture. Jarre has sold an estimated 80 million albums and singles over his career. [1]
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