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Jean Michel Jarre - Official Blog


Post Posted Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:58 pm
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AnDrOiD wrote:Or Magnetic Fields Part 3. :P
That is not a bad idea either... 8)

OR it could replace the industrial clanging noise in Ind. Rev. Overture. Not sure if that would work, but it could be an idea...

Analog version of Calypso... :D
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Post Posted Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:30 am
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yeah, "Calypso Part 1" would surely sound cool using the HANG / UFO. I have a strange feeling that we will see this dude again....
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Post Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008 2:33 am
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I was thinking more of the opening to "Fishing Junks At Sunset"...
Post Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:01 pm
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I liked the piece. No problem with that but I don't think that any of these rumba-samba-like tracks speak for JMJ as being his true music. I think it was a conceptual disaster to include MF Part 5 in the 1981 album, for an instance. Jarre is a master of transitions, as on Chronologie, but when it comes to concepts, sometimes his approach leaves me wondering why a man who can devise such complicated and syncopated percussion rhythms as on Oxygene 7 Part I or on Calypso 2, opts for what seems a standard rumba preset of a children's keyboard. It really puzzles me. If he goes for dance music, let it be something like Tout est Bleu (single version) or even "My Name is Arthur". Not rumba. :)
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Post Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:48 pm
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It has been mentioned before, that MF5 might have been kind of a joke from JMJ's side. I think he already had China in his mind when he did MF. Equinoxe 8/Band in the rain had the same style of rhythm. That was also a quite different track or part.
These tracks do sound cheap, but don't you think that was the idea? MF5 is based on a chinese composition as far as I remember, so perhaps he already had China in mind when he did MF. MF3 also shows that. JMJ has always been working in a wide range of sounds. That's a part of his style and what makes him unique. He is not just another ordinary electronic musician thinking "this has to sound robotic and synthesized.
Well at least that's how I look at it :)
Post Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:47 pm
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Jakob BC wrote:Equinoxe 8/Band in the rain had the same style of rhythm. That was also a quite different track or part.
This is very strange. From the very start (and Equinoxe was my first experience of his music) I noticed that the ending of Part 8 was Part 5 in a rephrased form, a thing quite common for classical music, to expand the material available by certain means and methods, such as modulation or a tempo change (yet another example would be the single Together Now) etc.
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Post Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:54 pm
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Perhaps he tried to give a bit of a dreamy atmosphere as is present in RV5, but didn't have the means to (sampling)... thus giving it all a bit of a 'playful' character. It doesn't really bother me anyway though...
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Post Posted Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:12 am
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Agreed! I think Jarre was always being playful in a "child-like" way. I think with MF5 or Oxy8 is is being a little irreverant... letting you know not to take everything so seriously.

Regarding the hang... I meant to say it would sound in that transition between MF3 into MF4. For some reason I said Fishing Junks At Sunset because I was listing to the Concerts in China but, hey c'est la vie man...
Post Posted Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:29 am
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Moviemaker, well, I think Zoolook was partly filled with this playful mood, although on the whole this album, and En Attendant Cousteau, seems to be more conceptual and uniform than some other albums. It is important to create a monolith concept, as far as I understand creative work in general, because it helps explore similarities among ideas behind the work and charges the creator with the task of bringing them all together convincingly. This often requires a lot more creativity and continuity of one's original signature than creating one single piece, and the failure to do so is well known in pop music as 'one hit wonders'. Speaking in similarities, a photographer demonstrates his ability and thinking best when his work is presented in a series on a certain subject.
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Post Posted Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:45 pm
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Does Jarre celebrate Christmas?. Only ask due to the lack of interest in a xmas message/greetings to his fans.
Jarre concerts attended - Destination Docklands 1988 - Paris La Defense 1990 - Europe In Concert 1993 (Manchester & London) - Oxygene Tour 1997 (Birmingham)

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Post Posted Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:53 pm
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Well, he did write on the blog...

"I LOVE YOU ALL, RENDEZ VOUS NEXT YEAR .... MERRY CHRISTMAS !"

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Post Posted Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:54 pm
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Yeah, in passing. Not what I would call an effort.
Jarre concerts attended - Destination Docklands 1988 - Paris La Defense 1990 - Europe In Concert 1993 (Manchester & London) - Oxygene Tour 1997 (Birmingham)

"A group of men and woman entered the laboratory one month ago to live in a smell free world. Body odour, sweaty arms pits and smelly feet are to create the energy to survive. A total mystery surrounds this experiment, and it's project code name: B.O and Smell'i "
Post Posted Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:55 pm
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He's too busy to give it an effort. :pwned:
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Post Posted Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:14 pm
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Busy, as in partying. :fine:
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Post Posted Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:31 pm
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I bet that JMJ is still busy playing with his x-mas gifts /robotic toys. :p:
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