Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[Dr_Jones]

Oh yes, tonight there's another Facebook chat.

[Kanta]

Join me later on Facebook Live 18h30 CET to hear about some events this week @sxsw Online March 16-20 & the launch of my crypto-art gallery.
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Rejoignez moi ce soir sur Facebook Live 18h30 CET pour en savoir plus sur quelques événements cette semaine @sxsw Online 16-20 mars & mon projet de galerie crypto-art.

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[Kanta]

Marie-Laure here, from admin JMJ has wifi problem in his building we must reschedule, apologies to everyone, watch this space ...

[Dr_Jones]

Chat' s going on right now. Interesting stuff about a crypto-art gallery with three music pieces he composed for the occasion, which he calls Cryptopia. As it says, it consists of three music loops called:
- The encoders
- Mother
- Time capsule

[Dr_Jones]

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I must say, she reminds me of someone

[Dr_Jones]

Also, due to covid lockdowns, JMJ was unable to get a new jacket.

[Kanta]

[Dr_Jones]

Wait, what? Juvet has died?

[Kanta]

Death of Patrick Juvet: Jean-Michel Jarre shares a "reaction of sadness and surprise"
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[Dr_Jones]

Chat is starting!

JM doesn't call this album a "real studioalbum". Promotion will be low, due to the pandemic. The photoexhibition is still planned to go over the world, but is postponed due to the pandemic too.

[Dr_Jones]

He didn't want to make too illustrative music, too abstract or too ethnic music. He's telling about creating this album with the sounds of the amazon, recreating them with synths, mixing them with real sounds.

Binaural version will not be "sold" seperately.

He's showing the packaging of the CD, looks neat! LP looks good too! Not a good idea to show the QR code of the download though...

[Dr_Jones]

Just like Oxygene and Waiting for Cousteau, this album is linked to the environment to promote Salgado's fight for the Amazon forest.

[Dr_Jones]

Part of the royalties will go to a fund for the Amazon forest.
As far as he knows, there is no limited edition. The "limited edition" of Amazonia, the book + LP is not done by JMJ, but by Taschen, the company which printed the book. He doesn't know about it having 50 copies only.

[Dr_Jones]

He used the ARP2600 a lot on this album. Plugins and samples (obviously, red), samples.

He's just hinted to a tour.

[Dr_Jones]

JMJ has sent Ron's Piece to the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the hope for him to play the song on saxophone in space.

He's busy with planning a new studio album, but nothing concrete at all.

He's got plans to do something like Welcome to the Other Side.