Hong Kong (album)

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Hong Kong
Live album by Jean Michel Jarre

Publication
(s)

1994

admission

March 1994

Label (s) Disques Dreyfus

Genre (s)

Electronica , New Age , Ambient , Pop

running time

82 m 47 s / 75 m 59 s

production

Jean Michel Jarre

chronology
Chronology
(1993) 		Hong Kong Oxygene 7-13
(1997)
source rating
Allmusic

Hong Kong is a live album by French musician Jean Michel Jarre . It is Jarre's fourth live album and his sixteenth album release. The highest chart placement was in France with 21st place. It contains recordings of a concert on March 11, 1994 in Hong Kong , People's Republic of China - at the time of the concert still a British Crown Colony - which was seen by around 40,000 visitors to celebrate the opening of the new Hong Kong stadium . In addition to classics from previous albums, the live performance primarily includes pieces from the previously released studio album Chronologie .

Specialty

The concert in Hong Kong took place half a year after Jarre's European tour . It was originally planned to record the concert in June 1994 in Düsseldorf, Germany. However, this concert was canceled and various appearances on the European tour and the concert in Hong Kong were combined under the new title Hong Kong . Hong Kong was
initially released as a double CD album with a total playing time of just under 83 minutes. For the remastered version released in 1997 , an intermediate passage was left out and the song Fishing Junks at Sunset was shortened to achieve a playing time of 76 minutes and thus to be able to output the album on just one CD.

Title list in comparison

Double CD version (1994) Remastered Version (1997)
1-1 countdown 1:37 1-1 countdown 1:37
1-2 Chronology 2 6:37 1-2 Chronology 2 6:37
1-3 Chronology 3 5:46 1-3 Chronology 3 5:46
1-4 How old are you? 1:18 1-4 How old are you? 1:18
1-5 Equinox 4 4:45 1-5 Equinox 4 4:46
1-6 Souvenir of China 4:43 1-6 Souvenir of China 4:44
1-7 Qu'est-Ce Que l'Amour 0:52 1-7 Qu'est-Ce Que l'Amour 0:51
1-8 Chronology 6 5:10 1-8 Chronology 6 5:10
1-9 Chronology 8 4:50 1-9 Chronology 8 4:50
1-10 Where are you going? 0:53 1-10 Where are you going? 0:53
1-11 Oxygene 4 4:30 1-11 Oxygene 4 4:34
2-1 Hong Kong hostess 0:34
2-2 Fishing Junks at Sunset Pt. 1 6:10
2-3 Fishing Junks at Sunset Pt. 2 5:32 1-12 Fishing Junks at Sunset 5:31
2-4 Sale of the Century 1:18 1-13 Sale of the Century 1:18
2-5 Digi Sequencer 6:11 1-14 Digi Sequencer 6:07
2-6 Magnetic Fields 2 6:25 1-15 Magnetic Fields 2 6:31
2-7 Band in the rain (Unplugged version) 2:35 1-16 Band in the rain (Unplugged version) 2:27
2-8 Rendez-vous 4 6:23 1-17 Rendez-vous 4 6:23
2-9 Chronology 4 6:38 1-18 Chronology 4 6:35

Major versions

year Output form medium country Label Catalog number comment
1994 original CD (2) France Disques Dreyfus FDM 36154-2 First edition
1997 Remastered CD France, Europe Disques Dreyfus, EPIC FDM 36161-2, EPC 488145 2 96 kHz / 24bit Technology
by Scott Hull

occupation

Musician

Further line-up

  • Miranda - Voice of Time (cutscenes)
  • Chuen Ying Arts Center of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra conducted by Cheng Chai-Man
  • Hong Kong Opera Society Choir

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allmusic.com Album Review "Hong Kong" , accessed February 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ infodisc.fr ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / infodisc.fr
  3. ↑ Information about the concert on the official website