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I have high hopes about this project.

We've seen in the past Jarre create music with the performance in mind (Rendez-vous for Houston, Revolutions for Docklands, Chronologie for EiC, Oxygene 7-13 for the Oxygene Tour...) - this project may help Jarre focus on a truly special piece of music?

Also, Jarre has often talked about his music being associated with space but has always said this was never his intention, especially with Oxygene. The closest Jarre has come is Rendez-vous but this album was more about human's meeting with space, about conquest and exploration - so with Hey Gagarin... I remember Jarre talking about Garik's star sounds. If Jarre is excited about this, and is excited about the observatory bringing the universe closer to us human's, then I wouldn't be surprised if his new album explores some new themes, with thoughts on performance at the observatory.

If Brian May is on board I think you can think less hard rock guitar - I think May would want to explore similar themes...

Exciting times!

This concert will be great, while I'm still a huge Queen fan (before they started to use synths).
Maybe that's the runner-up for the newt album ?

(slightly off-topic)

We could have a mish-mash of Jarre & Queen songs. . . .

I Wan't To Break Oxygene

Fat Bottomed Teo & Tea

Radio Equinoxe

Crazy Little Thing Called Zoolook

Killer Calypso

A Kind Of Geometry Magic

I'm Going Slightly Aero

Seven Seas Of Chronologie

We Are The Revolutions

(very much back on-topic)

tribute to Dreyfus:

-Who wants to live forever
-Parisian Rhapsody
-Too Much Discs Will Kill You

GeeJee wrote:tribute to Dreyfus:

-Who wants to live forever
-Parisian Rhapsody
-Too Much Discs Will Kill You

You forgotten the song:

I Want It All

Greetzzz...

Christophe wrote:

GeeJee wrote:tribute to Dreyfus:

-Who wants to live forever
-Parisian Rhapsody
-Too Much Discs Will Kill You

You forgotten the song:

I Want It All

Greetzzz...

That would be "He wants it all" then

What about "He's not the champion, cause I aaammm"

Oxygene 2 Ga Ga
We Will Oxygene 4 You
Another One Bites The Aero
I Want It Vintage
These Are The Days Of Beautiful Agony
Oxygene 13 Rhapsody
The Pleasure Principle Must Go On
Too Much Téo & Téa Will Kill You

Ahem.

ONTOPIC

Maybe I'l go to one of these concerts! On Tenerife or La Palma! I must see which date is the best one for me then...

Greetzzz...

QUEEN'S BRIAN MAY FINALLY PUBLISHES ASTROPHYSICS THESIS

PASTE MAGAZINE
Decatur, GA, USA
By Henry Freedland
August 7, 2008

Between this day and the next, an ethereal luminescence will pour down from the sky, twisting into view just after sundown in the west, before sunrise in the east. Some will imagine it a false dawn; the more paranoid will assume UFO. But astronomers now understand this nightly celestial secretion, the Zodiacal Light, to be sunlight reflected off space debris near the center of the solar system.

How do we know? Why, with help from the Fabry-Perot Spectrometer, of course, which recorded 250 scans of the light in the early '70s from its Canary Islands location. Diligent astrophysics student Brian May recently published his PhD thesis on the subject, entitled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.

Give it a second.

Yes, that's Brian May, co-founder of legendary progressive/metal/arena/rock band Queen. Shortly after he and his friend Tim Staffell drummed up the idea of Smile, the original incarnation of the group back in 1969, the young astrophile put his studies on the backburner for a few years.

But then Smile took in one Farrokh Bulsara, AKA Freddie Mercury, who renamed the band, which soon began its run as one of the most popular British groups of all time—and it's not like there's an observatory or periodic table in every backstage dressing room from London to Los Angeles.

"I have thoroughly enjoyed my years playing guitar and recording music with Queen, but it's extremely gratifying to see the publication of my thesis," May recently told USA Today. "I've been fascinated with astronomy for years, and I was happy to finally complete my Ph.D. last year and record my studies of the Zodiacal Light in this book."

The guitarist, who finally received a doctorate from Imperial College in London just under a year ago, will soon return to beating paper with rock: Queen, with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company and Free, will release a new album this September and head out on tour to support it this fall. And though there has been no official announcement, here at Paste we imagine that reading the 215-page dissertation gets you a free CD.

As for May, well, it must be said: another goal bites the dust.

According to magneticfields.dk JMJ has been invited to perform on the earlier mentioned island 'La Palma', since he is UNESCO ambassador regarding '2009, the yeard of astronomy'.
You can read more about it here.

Thanxs Jakob. There is a very good link attached to the article: http://www.astronomy2009.org .

Any clue on when during the year this is supposed to take off (sprin, summer, christmas)?

PMgep wrote:Any clue on when during the year this is supposed to take off (sprin, summer, christmas)?

"we still have to wait until we know if we have enough money to make the concert happen."

http://en.jeanmicheljarre.es/concert-in ... s-in-2009/

money.... hope it is not a problem. the problem may be the number of public who is ready to go there for a concert. it will be quite an expensive journey...

off topic
Garik Israelian - an Armenian man. I will harry now to tell this to my friend also Garik There is a huge observatory in Armenia too. It is even mentioned in school astronomy program.