Jarre in China
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| Live album by Jean-Michel Jarre | ||||
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Publication |
June 13, 2005 |
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admission |
October 10, 2004 |
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| Label (s) | Warner Music Group | |||
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running time |
126 m 41s + bonus content |
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Jarre in China is a concert recording and live album by the French musician Jean-Michel Jarre released on June 13, 2005 under the label of Warner Music Vision .
Specialty
Jarre in China includes the concert recording from October 10, 2004 in the Forbidden City and the Square (at the Gate) of Heavenly Peace . It was released as a Live Collector box set with 2 DVDs and 1 CD . In December 2004 a much shorter single DVD version was published in France. The CD enclosed with the box set cannot be purchased as a single release.
According to the company's own information, the concert was the first ever to be THX certified and recorded completely in high definition and 5.1 surround sound and broadcast live on Chinese television. Differences can be seen between the DVD release and the live recording, so that later editing took place as a result of which errors were removed from the DVD.
As early as 1981, Jean-Michel Jarre was the first Western artist ever to perform in China. In 2004 he was able to increase this success on the occasion of the Sino-French Year by allowing him to make music in two historically significant locations, both within the Forbidden City and on the square (at the gate) of Heavenly Peace in front of it . The 50-minute documentary Jean Michel Jarre In The Footsteps Of The Last Emperor on the 2nd DVD of the set reports on the way to the concert, on problems and complications with the authorities and locations .
The concert was accompanied by around 260 people from the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Chinese National Orchestra and the Beijing Opera Choir. Initially, Jarre played within the Forbidden City. For the second part he was chauffeured by motorcycle with a sidecar to Tian'anmen Square and played there with two well-known Chinese pop stars. The government-critical musician Cui Jian was refused to play by the state. In order to let Cui Jian have his say, he was given a 9-minute documentary on the 2nd DVD. Jarre, too, did not shy away from taking a political stand. If not with direct words, but with the video screens on the stage. There the words Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité could be read.
Track list
| - | DVD 1 | DVD 2 | CD | |||
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| Title # | Forbidden City | Tian'anmen Square | (Bonus) | |||
| 1 | Forbidden City | 3:03 | Arrival | 1:41 | Aero | 3:26 |
| 2 | Aero | 3:56 | Aerology Remix | 4:07 | Oxygene 2 | 7:39 |
| 3 | Oxygene 2 | 8:00 | La Foule (Tribute to Edith Piaf) |
4:29 | Oxygene 4 | 3:22 |
| 4th | Oxygene 4 | 4:03 | Tian'anmen | 5:23 | Geometry of Love | 5:01 |
| 5 | Geometry of love | 5:29 | Oxygene 13 | 6:33 | Equinox 8 | 1:05 |
| 6th | Small band in the rain | 1:07 | In The Footsteps Of The Last Emperor * | 50:43 | Equinox 4 | 5:34 |
| 7th | Equinox 4 | 5:53 | Freedom of speech * | 9:39 | Aerozone | 5:00 |
| 8th | Journey to Beijing | 6:39 | Photo Gallery * | 4:40 | Chronology 6 | 5:35 |
| 9 | Chronology 6 | 6:27 | - | Fishing Junks at Sunset | 11:45 | |
| 10 | Theremin Memories | 3:27 | - | Souvenir of China | 4:38 | |
| 11 | Zoo ecology | 3:47 | - | Aerology Remix (bonus track) | 3:37 | |
| 12 | Aerozone | 5:12 | - | - | ||
| 13 | Aerology | 3:35 | - | - | ||
| 14th | Chronology 3 | 5:29 | - | - | ||
| 15th | Vivaldi "Winter" with Patrick Rondat |
3:35 | - | - | ||
| 16 | Fishing Junks at Sunset | 12:08 | - | - | ||
| 17th | Rendez-vous 4 | 4:36 | - | - | ||
| 18th | Souvenir of China | 4:45 | - | - | ||
| 19th | Rendez-Vous 2 | 13:07 | - | - |
* Documentation
Major versions
| year | Output form | medium | country | Label | Catalog number | comment |
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| 2005 | original | DVD / CD | Europe | Warner Music / Aero | 5050467696020 | Box set 2 DVDs, 1 CD |
| 2004 | original | DVD | France | Warner Music / Aero | 5046761662 | 1 DVD set |
