In Concert / En Concert Houston / Lyon
| Cities in concert Houston Lyon | ||||
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| Live album by Jean-Michel Jarre | ||||
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Publication |
1987 |
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| Label (s) | Disques Dreyfus | |||
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running time |
44 m 08 s / 71 m 15 s |
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Cities In Concert is a live album by the French musician Jean-Michel Jarre . It contains the recordings of two mega concerts which Jean-Michel Jarre hostedin 1986at the invitation of the cities of Houston (USA) and Lyon (France). It is Jarre's tenth music album or the second live album which has been published in various versions since 1987.
The concerts
Houston
In 1986, the city of Houston and the state took place on April 5 to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas and the 25th anniversary of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center of NASA a free for the viewer / listener open-air concert instead. The concert was attended by an estimated 1,300,000 people, earning Jarre an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . Jarre recorded the concept album Rendez-Vous for this event , which was performed in full with the exception of the first track. Particular attention was paid to the piece Ron's Peace . The astronaut Ronald McNair wanted to record a piece on the saxophone during the Challenger space mission STS-51-L in space . A video recording of this musical recording in space should be shown at the concert. However, the Challenger exploded shortly after take-off on January 28, tearing the astronauts to their deaths, making it NASA's biggest disaster to date. Jarre wanted to cancel the concert planned for April 5, 1986, but the NASA astronauts persuaded him to hold it anyway. The concert was then dedicated to the deceased crew.
The track list of this concert was:
- Ethnicolor
- Oxygene I
- Oxygene II
- Oxygene IV
- Equinox VII
- Souvenir of China
- Equinoxe IV
- Equinoxe II
- Equinoxe V
- Rendez-vous III
- Rendez-vous II
- Oxygene V
- Rendez-vous V ( Ron's Piece )
- Rendez-vous IV
- Rendez-Vous IV (encore)
Lyon
On October 5th, a similar concert was held in Jarre's hometown of Lyon in honor of Pope John Paul II 's visit to the Pope , which around 800,000 people saw.
The track list of this concert was:
- Moonmachine
- Ethnicolor
- Wooloomooloo
- Les Chants Magnetiques I
- Souvenir of China
- Equinoxe V
- Rendez-vous III
- Rendez-vous II
- Rendez-vous V ( Ron's Piece )
- Rendez-vous IV
- Rendez-vous IV (encore)
The albums
From the recordings of the concerts, various albums with different numbers and lengths of individual tracks as well as total running times were created over the years. You can roughly distinguish between a short version with 9 or 10 tracks - here the blessing of the Pope was separated as a separate track - and a playing time of about 45 minutes, as well as a long version with 11 tracks and a playing time of almost 72 minutes. In terms of content, the albums in the studio were provided with transitions and recordings, which lead the listener to various points and situations of the events of that time and also give a small insight into the political and social situation at that time.
Track list
| short version | long version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxygene V | 1:15 | Oxygene V | 1:30 |
| Ethnicolor | 9:39 | Ethnicolor | 11:41 |
| Magnetic Fields I. | 4:35 | Magnetic Fields I. | 8:11 |
| Souvenir of China | 3:32 | Souvenir of China | 5:37 |
| Equinoxe V | 3:54 | Equinoxe V | 6:01 |
| Blessing of the pope | 0:33 | ||
| Rendez-vous III | 4:27 | Rendez-vous III | 6:01 |
| Equinox VII | 5:29 | ||
| Wooloomooloo | 3:22 | ||
| Rendez-vous II | 11:10 | Rendez-vous II | 11:54 |
| Rendez-vous V (Ron's Piece) | 4:36 | Rendez-vous V (Ron's Piece) | 6:35 |
| Rendez-vous IV | 4:54 | Rendez-vous IV | 7:01 |
Major versions
| year | output | medium | country | Label | Catalog number | version | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | original | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, Polydor | 833 808-2, 833 738-2 | long, 11 tracks | - |
| 1987 | New edition | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, Polydor | FDM 36147-2, 833 170-2 | short, 9 titles | SPARS Code: DDD |
| 1991 | Remastered | CD | France | Disques Dreyfus | 833 126-2 | short, 9 titles | Series digitally remastered |
| 1997 | Remastered | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, EPIC | FDM 36147-2, EPC 487377 2 | long, 11 tracks | 96 kHz / 24bit technology by Scott Hull |
| 2015 | Remastered | CD | Europe | Sony Music | 88843024722 | short, 10 titles | by Dave Dadwater |
occupation
Musician
- Jean-Michel Jarre , keyboards and synthesizers
- Guy Delacroix , keyboards and synthesizers
- Christine Durand , soprano
- Sylvain Durand , keyboards and synthesizers
- Michel Geiss , keyboards and synthesizers
- Joe Hammer , drums and percussion
- Dominique Perrier , keyboards and synthesizers
- Francis Rimbert , keyboards and synthesizers
- Pascal Lebourg , keyboards and synthesizers
- Dino Lumbroso , percussion
- Kirk Whalum , saxophone
- Choir of the High School for The Performing Arts and The Singing Boys of Houston under the direction of Sylvain Durand
Sound engineers
- Dennis Vanzetto , Michel Geiss, Claude Ermelin