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Jean-Michel Jarre: Sounds
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In spite of his international status, Jean-Michel Jarre continued to live quietly in France, spending busy afternoons locked away in his studio experimenting with new synthesizer sounds. Jarre displayed an insatiable curiosity for discovering new musical genres, fusing the most ancient traditional music with his futuristic electronic sounds. In 1988 Jarre would return to the studio to record a new album, entitled "Révolution". With its innovative mix of synthesizers, traditional ethnic instruments and Muslim chants, "Révolution" was highly reminiscent of Jarre’s 1984 album "Zoolook".
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Jarre uses white noise, with phased effects, to create washes of background sounds. He ... uses simple drum machines and synthesizers to create funk strange and funky funky rhythm backing. On Oxygene IV, it sounds like crickets have joined in with the drum machine. Over the string, rhythm and effect backing, Jarre plays melodies that are straightforward and catchy.
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On his return to Paris Jarre set about organising another spectacular mega-concert. This new sound-light-and-synthesizer extravaganza was held on 14 July 1990 under Paris’s gigantic new Arche de la Défense (constructed on the outskirts of the city in line with the famous Arche de Triomphe). Jarre’s new mega-concert beat all his previous records, drawing crowds of over 2 million fans who spread out in a 2-kilometre radius around the Grande Arche. Jean-Michel Jarre would perform the concert of a lifetime, mixing Arab rhythms and Caribbean steel drums with his trademark electronic sound.
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In 2007, Jarre arranged the soundtrack for a movie directed by Volker Schlöndorff,[11] using old material. The movie is named Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig,[14] its international English title is Strike.[15]
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