Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre (2016)

Jean-Michel Jarre [ ʒɑ̃ miˈʃɛl ʒaʀ ] (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon ), actually Jean-Michel André Jarre , is a French musician , composer and music producer . Under the influence of Pierre Schaeffer , compositions for the synthesizer were created from the beginning of the 1970s , which are considered to be pioneering for electronic music . During his career, Jarre sold around 80 million records worldwide. He repeatedly visualized his music in mega-concerts designed by him.

biography

1948-1970

Jean-Michel Jarre was born in Lyon in 1948 to France Pejot and the composer Maurice Jarre . His parents divorced when he was five years old. Shortly thereafter, his father began his career as a film music composer in Hollywood . Jarre learned to play the piano at the age of five, but his interest in music was only aroused when his mother took him to the Paris jazz club Le Chat qui pêche for his tenth birthday , where he a. the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker serenaded.

In the 1960s, Jarre formed two bands, Mystère IV and The Dustbins . The latter played pieces by The Shadows and The Spotnicks and was seen in the Etienne Perier film Des garçons et des filles . Jarre played electric guitar back then. In 1969 he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales , which dealt with the so-called Musique concrète under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer . During the one year that Jarre spent in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, he recorded his first own composition called Happiness Is a Sad Song .

1970-1980

In 1971 he was allowed to perform his electronic ballet Aor in the Paris Opera , making him the youngest composer whose work was performed in these halls. In 1971 Jarre also released his first single La Cage on Francis Dreyfus ' record label "Disques Motors" and in 1972 the first LP Deserted Palace . In the following years smaller compositions were created for radio, television and advertising, which appeared in 1973 film Music of Jean-Chapot film The Burned Barns (original title: Les granges brûlées ). He also wrote and produced pieces and entire albums for the French musicians Christophe , Françoise Hardy , Patrick Juvet and Gérard Lenorman .

Jarre had his big breakthrough with the 1976 album Oxygène , which was distributed worldwide via PolyGram from 1977 , became a surprising success and was distributed worldwide in 12 million copies by 2003.

In 1978 Equinoxe was released , the follow-up album to Oxygène . The conceptually similar album sold 8 million times.

On July 14, 1979, Jean-Michel Jarre's first concert took place on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, which was accompanied by light effects, projections and fireworks. Over a million viewers at his first live appearance earned Jarre an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the most popular concert of all time.

1980-1990

In 1981, Jarre on his album Magnetic Fields , the sampling one if initially only to a limited extent. After the release of this album, Jarre became the first Western musician to perform in the People's Republic of China after the death of Mao Zedong . The five concerts in China in 1981 - two in Beijing , three in Shanghai - were released in 1982 in the form of a double LP (post-processed in the studio) called The Concerts in China / Les concerts en Chine .

In 1983 the album Music for Supermarkets was created . In response to the commercialization of the music scene, Jarre recorded this album, had exactly one LP pressed and then auctioned it on July 6, 1983 at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris for 69,000 French francs . The whole work was played once on the French-speaking radio station RTL , after which the master tapes were destroyed. Jarre called on his fans to record the broadcast (“Pirate it!”). Since the station only broadcast on medium wave , the monaural recordings still available today are of poor quality. Jarre processed some songs again on subsequent albums, so that not all pieces of "Music for Supermarkets" are lost.

On his 1984 album Zoolook , samples of human voices from over 20 languages ​​dominate, all of which were used as a sound source in an edited and alienated state. It was neither about the meaning of the words nor their meaning, but only about their musical usability. In addition, guest musicians were involved in a Jarre album for the first time, for example the performance artist Laurie Anderson , the bassist Marcus Miller and the King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew .

In 1986 Jarre was invited by the US state of Texas and the US space agency NASA to a concert in Houston . The occasion was the 150th anniversary of the founding of the city and state and the 25th anniversary of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . Especially for this concert Jarre recorded the album Rendez-vous , with the pieces Rendez-Vous 2 and 3 already in a similar form in 1975 for the singer Gérard Lenorman as La Belle et la Bête and La Mort du Cygne by Jean-Michel Jarre had been written. The track Music For Supermarkets Part 3 from the album of the same name was also taken over as Rendez-Vous 5 Part III . The astronaut Bruce McCandless gave Jarre the idea of having one of the pieces played on the saxophone by the astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair on the STS-51-L mission of the Challenger space shuttle . McNair was an avid saxophonist, and it was planned that he would play a piece he had co-written in space. The launch of the Challenger on January 28th, however, became the largest disaster in US space history, in which all crew members were killed. Jarre wanted to cancel the concert, Bruce McCandless and other NASA astronauts persuaded him to hold it anyway. Rendez-vous Houston - A City In Concert took place and Jarre dedicated it to the deceased Challenger astronauts. The Houston skyline was integrated into a light and laser show. At least 1.3 million viewers watched the spectacle. Jarre dedicated the title Last Rendez Vous / Dernier Rendez Vous "Ron's Piece" to McNair on the album Rendez-Vous .

Concert in Houston on April 5, 1986

On October 5, 1986 Jarre performed in his hometown of Lyon on the occasion of the visit of Pope John Paul II . After the Pope had spoken his blessing on the city, the concert began, which was attended by 800,000 people. The live album In Concert Houston-Lyon and its longer edition Cities In Concert Houston-Lyon were dedicated to the two rendez-vous concerts .

The next album Revolutions premiered on October 8th and 9th, 1988 in London's Queen Victoria Docks. The Destination Docklands concert took place on a floating stage. Despite the pouring rain, 80,000 paying visitors and another 200,000 onlookers came. A live album was also made from this concert: Jarre Live , which was renamed Destination Docklands in the 1990s .

1990-2000

Unfamiliar sounds can be heard on Jarre's 1990 album Waiting for Cousteau , dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau , to which the steel drum group “Amoco Renegades” added a touch of the Caribbean to some tracks. Jarre also dedicated the Paris La Défense - Une Ville En Concert performed on July 14, 1990 to the French marine explorer. With this concert, which took place in the high-rise district of La Défense in Paris and included the entire architecture, including the Grande Arche , in the light show, Jarre surpassed his own record - the number of 2,000,000 spectators was entered in the Guinness Book of Records, some estimates speak for themselves even from 2,500,000. The space occupied by the audience reached back to the Paris Arch of Triumph . Jarre was supposed to perform as early as 1989 for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution , but the concert was postponed for a year. To this end, the Concert d'Images photo exhibition took place from July 7 to September 17, 1989 , showing Jarre's previous concerts and instruments.

A total solar eclipse was observed at noon on July 11, 1991 in Teotihuacán , Mexico . A concert was planned for the occasion, for which Jarre had composed pieces. The ship that was supposed to bring the stage to Mexico sank in the Atlantic and there were also financial problems, so the concert had to be canceled. The pieces found their way into the album Images - The Best of Jean Michel Jarre. Two songs from 1991, however, were never released. Jarre wrote it for Cousteau's film Palawan: The Last Paradise.

In 1992, watch manufacturer Swatch celebrated the production of its 100 millionth wristwatch. To mark the occasion, a new model called MusiCall was presented, whose alarm tones were gradually composed by various musicians; Jean-Michel Jarre wrote the melody of the first year (his two-tone MusiCall can be found as a sample in the title Chronologie 4 ). On the other hand, he organized the multimedia show Swatch The World in Zermatt on September 25th and 26th , which differed from his concerts in that the music was not played live. In the same year, the luxury hotel complex Sun City was opened in Bophuthatswana with the similarly conceived Legends of the Lost City show on December 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

The 1990s brought Jarres' only two European tours. In 1993 the Europe In Concert tour took place for the album Chronologie , an open-air tour which Jarre also took to his first concert in Germany in Berlin . A concert in Düsseldorf planned for June 18, 1994 , for which 12,000 tickets had already been sold, was canceled at short notice. On March 11, 1994, Jarre performed in front of 50,000 paying spectators at the grand opening ceremony of Hong Kong's Grand Stadium . The live album Hong Kong was released as a replacement for the originally planned recording of the Düsseldorf concert.

On July 14, 1995, Jarre, as UNESCO ambassador, performed the Concert pour la Tolérance in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris , which 1,200,000 spectators witnessed on site. The Algerian singer Cheb Khaled was a special guest among the musicians . A concert for the opening of the Crown Casino in Melbourne , scheduled for April 5, 1996, had to be canceled a week in advance.

In early 1997, Oxygene 7-13 appeared , the first album Jarres, which was distributed on the Sony Music label Epic Records . On March 22, 1997, Jarre performed as a guest musician on the 105th TV show Wetten, dass ..? in Vienna . He played the piece Oxygène 8 during a live broadcast to the Vienna City Hall . The town hall in the background served as a screen for projections. Jarre went on his second tour in the same year through various European concert halls. Germany took part in the Oxygène Arena Tour with seven concerts. In the same year, on September 6th, Jarre improved his own audience record - but not the world record - when the Oxygene concert was held in Moscow on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the city of Moscow in front of Lomonosov University . Since the gigantic MGU building can be seen almost all over Moscow and a great many people celebrated in the streets, an estimated 3,500,000 people witnessed the spectacle. Director Aubrey Powell documented the preparations for the concert as well as many of Jarre's life stages in the 60-minute film Making The Steamroller Fly . This appeared on the VHS and DVD releases Oxygene in Moscow .

The albums Chronologie and Oxygene 7-13 were accompanied by numerous remixes , so that Jarre decided to combine the stylistics used and some remixers in a kind of concert. The first of these Electronic Nights took place under the Eiffel Tower on July 14, 1998 under the title Rendez-vous '98 . The new style did not meet with the hoped-for approval from around 500,000 spectators and received boos. Another event of this kind was the iMac Night - [e-mail], which was organized on the occasion of the presentation of the iMac on September 18, 1998 and for the first time included 3D projections.

For the 1998 FIFA World Cup made in France Jarre two posts, each as collaborations. For Great Britain he played a new version of Fourth Rendez-vous called Rendez-vous '98 together with Apollo 440 , who had previously remixed some Jarre tracks . For Japan , the new Together Now was created in collaboration with Tetsuya Komuro , which was sung by Olivia Lufkin and children.

At the turn of the year on December 31, 1999, Jarre was invited by several cities; he appeared before the pyramids of Giza . The actual two-part Jarre concert took place during four of the twelve hours that the Twelve Dreams Of The Sun lasted.

2000-2010

The album Métamorphoses was released in early 2000 . On December 31, 2000 Jarre also celebrated with a concert - as The Vizitors he and Tetsuya Komuro appeared on Okinawa . The audience reaction to 2001 Rendez-vous In Space , which was inspired by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke , among others , was muted.

In 2001 Jarre returned to his classical concert style. On June 19 and 20, two shows took place in the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in the Athens Acropolis for the benefit of the Greek organization Elpida. The Acropolis concerts were spatially rather small, which gave them a more intimate atmosphere than the large concerts that Jarre is used to, and were each seen by 5,000 spectators. Jarre's appearance at the annual Les Printemps De Bourges was even smaller . The concert on April 12, 2002 saw 100 invited guests. Four unpublished pieces were played, one of which was over 30 years old. The recording of the concert was published in 2006 on the album Printemps de Bourges 2002 .

On September 7, 2002, the Gammel vrå Enge wind farm near Aalborg in Denmark saw an unusual Jarre concert: Aero's stage stood in the middle of wind turbines, which were also supposed to provide all the electricity for the event and were themselves involved in the light show . Like Destination Docklands , Aero was accompanied by heavy rain. In contrast, the fans here had to forego seating and even solid ground, so that the 35,000 spectators soon found themselves in the mud. Nevertheless, the concert went through to the end.

Musically he parted ways with Epic Records after the flop Métamorphoses , and after disagreements also with Disques Dreyfus . Dreyfus still owns the rights to Jarre's publications and concerts until 2002. The label also used these, for example, to re-release the CD Les granges brûlées , which is extremely rare as a record, in 2003. The last album that Jarre released on Dreyfus, was Sessions 2000 , stylistically reminiscent of electronic jazz . As controversial as Sessions 2000 is Jarre's studio album Geometry of Love from 2003, which was recorded for the Club VIP Room in Paris and musically hardly reminds of the classic Jarre albums such as Oxygène .

Jarre's separation from his former producer led to the unusual situation that two best-of albums by Jean-Michel Jarre were planned for 2004. The first of the two, entitled The Essential , but not having much in common with the 1980s album of the same name, was put together by Francis Dreyfus. The second was Aero , a double pack consisting of a CD and a DVD; In addition to four new pieces, it contains some Jarre classics, which are now available for the first time in 5.1 surround sound. It is considered the first album composed for 5.1. The individual tracks were not remastered, but re-recorded. The whole thing was recorded in such a way that each note has a defined place in the 5.1 room. The video on the DVD shows the eyes of his then wife Anne Parillaud .

Almost exactly 23 years after the concerts in China , Jarre gave a concert in the Forbidden City in Beijing on October 10, 2004 as another Western artist after Yanni 1997 . The occasion was the opening of the French Year in China.

The year 2005 brought Jarre to Denmark again. Along with other artists, he appeared on April 2nd at the Once Upon a Time gala on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the Danish fairy tale poet Hans Christian Andersen in the Park in Copenhagen . As an interpretation of the Andersen fairy tale Der Schatten , he played a special version of his play Rendez-vous 2 . The last concert for 2005 took place on August 26th in the Polish city of Gdansk . The 25th anniversary of the Solidarność union was celebrated under the title Przestrzeń Wolności (Space Of Freedom) . Jarre and Lech Wałęsa initiated this concert together, which took place on the famous shipyard north of Gdansk.

On December 16, 2006, near the city of Merzouga ( Morocco ) in the middle of the Sahara , an impressive benefit concert with lights and fireworks took place under the motto Water for Life .

The album Téo & Téa was released on March 30, 2007 in Germany. In spring 2007, the first of two singles entitled Téo & Téa was released , for which Jarre advertised for the first time in advance via YouTube with trailers. There is also a CD + DVD double pack version of this album, the DVD of which contains the album in 5.1 surround sound. Jarre is continuing the idea, first used with Aero, of conceiving studio albums on 5.1 straight away. The album was not a commercial success, made in Internet forums for heated discussions, because some of the patterns used as presets from a sequencer by Roland came.

Jean-Michel Jarre in Milan (2008)

On September 19, 2007 Jarre played a concert in Antwerp on the occasion of the 30th birthday of his album Oxygène . Only VIPs were invited . The pieces Oxygene 1–6 were played with the original equipment from the 1976 recordings. Francis Rimbert , Claude Samard and Dominique Perrier were on stage with Jarre . All pieces were played live for the first time since the China Concerts in 1981. The concert was shown from November 22, 2007 in spatial sound in selected cinemas in the cities of Nuremberg , Weimar , Dresden , Dettelbach , Frankfurt am Main , Ahaus , Hof (Saale) , Neu-Ulm , Rheine , Munich and Stuttgart . On November 30, 2007, a studio recording of this concert form was released in three different versions under the name Oxygene live in your living room (30th Anniversary, New Master Recording) : as a normal CD, as a CD with normal video DVD and on CD with 3D -DVD and two 3D glasses. From the success of the concerts, Jarre started the Oxygene in Concert tour together with Rimbert, Samard and Perrier , which led through Europe and parts of Russia. As part of the tour, performances took place in the Marigny Theater in Paris from December 12 to 15, 2007, of which the concert on December 13, 2007 was made available as a live stream afterwards . Jarre made guest appearances in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland in 2008. The tracklist included the full album Oxygène , as well as two tracks from the album Oxygene 7-13 .

Inspired by the renewed success of this tour, Jarre continued after a six-month break from May 4th to 30th, 2009 with the original equipment of his musical career under the title "In> Doors" and added pieces of music from other albums to the tracklist on. After 17 appearances, he allowed himself another break of almost 10 months and continued the tour in 2010.

2010-2020

On March 1, 2010, Jarre went on tour again under the title 2010 - in homage to his friend Arthur C. Clarke , took a break from December 2010 to May 2011 and toured under the title 2011 until November 20, 2011 . The concerts took him to Poland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Great Britain. On July 1, 2011 Jarre gave an open-air concert in Monaco on the occasion of the wedding of Albert II of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock , which was available as a live stream worldwide . Jarre was on stage 157 times between September 19, 2007 and November 20, 2011.

Since 2012 Jarre has worked with various artists on a music project that was initially presented to the public as an e-project . The name of the first of two albums was announced on Jarre's website at the end of August 2015 as Electronica 1 - The Time Machine and published on October 16, 2015. Contributors were 3D by Massive Attack , Air , Armin van Buuren , Boyz Noize , Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream , who died on January 20, 2015 - to whom he dedicated this publication -, Fuck Buttons, Gesaffelstein , the filmmaker and musician John Carpenter , Lang Lang , music and performance artist Laurie Anderson - who Jarre had worked with on Zoolook and Metamorphoses -, Little Boots , Moby , M83 , Pete Townshend , and Vince Clarke . Individual pieces were published in advance under the working title E-Project . Each was created in direct collaboration with Jarre, who stated that he wanted to create pieces in which the listener can hear the respective artist and Jarre's influences.

In 2014 and 2015, some albums were repeatedly revised and offered in new remastered versions. In September 2015 the TV channel ARTE showed a documentary about Jarre, which u. a. showed many moments of his sessions with various musicians.

On April 15, 2016 Jarre released the techno track Exit together with Edward Snowden , for which Snowden submitted a monologue in the form of a manifesto . Snowden had always turned down requests from other artists. On May 6th, the second album of the Electronica project was released under the name Electronica 2: The Heart Of Noise , on which Exit can also be heard. The Heart of Noise contains 18 songs, 15 of which were created with other musicians. Contributors were Christophe , Cyndi Lauper , Edward Snowden, Gary Numan , Hans Zimmer , Jeff Mills , Julia Holter , Peaches , Pet Shop Boys , Primal Scream , Rone , Sébastien Tellier , Siriusmo , The Orb and Yello .

On September 30, 2016, Jean-Michel Jarre announced during his current world tour on Facebook that for the 40th anniversary of Oxygene on December 2, 2016, a third part, Oxygene 3 , with the titles Oxygene Part 14–20 , including one, would be released Trilogy sales box. Jarre took after this announcement during the ongoing "Electronica World Tour" the title Oxygene 17 and later Oxygene 19 in the setlist with on.

Jean-Michel Jarre in Bratislava (2016)

After the release of the Electronica albums, Jarre embarked on the extensive Electronica World Tour on June 16, 2016 , which took him through Europe and, after a long absence, back to the USA and Canada for the first time in May 2017 . The performances in Chile and Argentina planned for 2017 in Latin America have been canceled due to disagreements with the organizer. These were then made up for in 2018 on March 22nd ( Buenos Aires ) and 27th ( Santiago de Chile ). This was followed by another guest appearance in Canada, seven more appearances in the United States, including on April 10th after 32 years in Houston again, as well as an appearance at the Coachella music festival. The Electronica World Tour ended in San Diego on April 21, 2018 .

2018 marked the 40th anniversary of Jarre's second official studio album, Equinoxe (1978). As on Oxygène's 40th anniversary (1976) in 2016, Jarre released a sequel entitled Equinoxe Infinity on the same day the original Equinoxe was released , November 16 . The album was sold with two cover arts that differed greatly in their visual impact. Unless you chose it yourself in a retail store, chance decided which version of the cover you got when you ordered it.

On October 3, 2019, Jarre published his memoirs entitled Mélancolique Rodéo , initially only in French.

On November 7, 2019, Jarre published the music app EōN for iOS and iPadOS in the Apple App Store through his production company AERO PRODUCTIONS . It is a generative app that uses algorithms to create a never-ending audiovisual experience based on music and graphics . It was created in collaboration with the French music app development studio BLEASS and the Tokyo- based designer Alexis André, who works for Sony . With this, Jarre continues the generation of music with the help of computer algorithms, which was introduced in 1990 with the title Waiting for Cousteau . On December 13, 2019, Jarre released a 2000-limited CD and LP edition entitled Snapshots from EōN . Although the EōN app never generates repetitive or identical music based on Jarre's compositions - which is precisely the purpose of such a generative music app - Jarre felt compelled to selfishly take a few moments from the creative process and moments that he particularly liked To capture posterity and share it. I felt compelled to "freeze" some of my personal favorite music moments during the entire creative process; audio snapshots that neither of us will never ever hear again…… - so inside this box, I just selfishly wanted to capture a few audio snapshots for my own posterity… Which you happy few also get to share! I felt compelled to "freeze" some of my personal favorite musical moments throughout the creative process; Audio snapshots that none of us will ever hear again ... ... so I just selfishly wanted to record a few audio snapshots in this box for my own posterity ... Which you lucky few can share too!

Private life

In 1975 Jarre married Flore Guillard; the marriage lasted until 1977. The daughter Émilie Charlotte , born in 1976 , later became known as a photo model.

In 1976 Jarre met British actress Charlotte Rampling , whom he married in 1978. David Jarre was born to Emilie and Ramping's son Barnaby Southcombe . David later accompanied his father musically at some concerts and has now started his own career as a magician, but is also musically active. In 1996 Jarre and Rampling separated; the divorce did not take place until 2002.

In 2002 Jarre announced his engagement to French actress Isabelle Adjani . The breakup of the engagement in 2004 was reflected in the French tabloid media .

He then became engaged to actress Anne Parillaud and married her in May 2005; the marriage was divorced again in 2010.

In 2019, Jean-Michel Jarre married Chinese actress Gong Li, who was 17 years his junior .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1976	Oxygène	DE8th gold (17 weeks)DE	AT10 (16 weeks) AT	CH85 (1 week) CH	UK2 platinum (24 weeks)UK	US78 (19 weeks) US	First published: December 5, 1976
1978	Equinoxes	DE22nd gold (42 weeks)DE	AT14 (4 weeks) AT	-	UK11 gold (26 weeks)UK	US126 (8 weeks) US	First published: November 17, 1978
1981	Magnetic Fields	DE9 (29 weeks) DE	AT4 (20 weeks) AT	-	UK6th gold (17 weeks)UK	US98 (12 weeks) US	First published: May 22, 1981
1983	Music for Supermarkets / Musique pour supermarché	-	-	-	-	-	First publication: July 6, 1983 only one copy
1984	Zoolook	DE24 (14 weeks) DE	AT28 (2 weeks) AT	CH30 (1 week) CH	UK47 silver (14 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 1984
1986	Date	DE20 (13 weeks) DE	AT15 (6 weeks) AT	CH24 (2 weeks) CH	UK9 gold (38 weeks)UK	US52 (20 weeks) US	First published: April 1986
1988	Revolutions	DE28 (7 weeks) DE	AT13 (4 weeks) AT	CH13 (6 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (13 weeks)UK	-	First published: August 1988
1990	Waiting for Cousteau	DE27 (14 weeks) DE	AT19 (10 weeks) AT	CH21st gold (8 weeks)CH	UK14 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 11, 1990
1993	chronology	DE50 (9 weeks) DE	AT32 (2 weeks) AT	CH21st platinum (9 weeks)CH	UK11 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 25, 1993
1997	Oxygen 7-13	DE19 (17 weeks) DE	AT2 gold (17 weeks)AT	CH24 (14 weeks) CH	UK11 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 17, 1997
2000	Métamorphoses	DE17 (5 weeks) DE	AT28 (5 weeks) AT	CH32 (6 weeks) CH	UK37 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 24, 2000
2002	Sessions 2000	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 2002
2003	Geometry of Love	-	-	-	-	-	First published: September 2003
2004	AERO	DE37 (4 weeks) DE	AT60 (1 week) AT	CH61 (5 weeks) CH	UK14th gold (9 weeks)UK	-	First release: September 18, 2004 newly recorded compilation
2007	Téo & Téa	-	-	CH43 (7 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: March 26, 2007
2015	Electronica 1: The Time Machine	DE4 (6 weeks) DE	AT12 (4 weeks) AT	CH2 (9 weeks) CH	UK8 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 16, 2015
2016	Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise	DE12 (6 weeks) DE	AT22 (2 weeks) AT	CH5 (10 weeks) CH	UK8 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 6, 2016
	Oxygen 3	DE34 (3 weeks) DE	AT47 (1 week) AT	CH14 (2 weeks) CH	UK41 (1 week) UK	-	First published: December 2, 2016
2018	Equinoxe Infinity	DE11 (3 weeks) DE	AT31 (1 week) AT	CH15 (3 weeks) CH	UK33 (1 week) UK	-	First published: November 16, 2018

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More albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	The Concerts in China	DE35 (22 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6th gold (17 weeks)UK	-	First release: May 1982 live album
1983	Music from time and space	DE3 (14 weeks) DE	AT5 (8 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: March 1983 compilation
	The essential	-	-	-	UK14th gold (29 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 1983 compilation
1987	In Concert / En Concert Houston / Lyon	DE31 (9 weeks) DE	AT19 (2 weeks) AT	CH10 (10 weeks) CH	UK18th silver (15 weeks)UK	-	First release: July 1987 live album
1989	Jarre Live	-	-	-	UK16 silver (4 weeks)UK	-	First release: October 1989 live album
1991	Images - The Best Of	DE20th gold (13 weeks)DE	-	CH23 (6 weeks) CH	UK14th gold (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 1991 compilation
1994	Chronology Part 6	-	-	-	UK60 (1 week) UK	-	First release: May 1994 remix album
1994	Hong Kong	-	-	-	-	-	First release: May 1994 live album
1998	Odyssey Through O2	-	-	-	UK50 (2 weeks) UK	-	First release: May 1998 remix album
2011	Essentials & Rarities	-	-	-	-	-	First published: May 30, 2011 compilation
2016	Oxygène Trilogy	DE25 (5 weeks) DE	AT68 (1 week) AT	CH34 (1 week) CH	UK78 (1 week) UK	-	First published: December 2nd, 2016 compilation
2018	Planet Jarre	DE5 (4 weeks) DE	AT22 (1 week) AT	CH11 (4 weeks) CH	UK21 (1 week) UK	-	First published: September 14, 2018 compilation

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more publishments

1971: La Cage , (single without album) 1972: Deserted Palace 1973: Les Granges Brûlées (soundtrack) 1983: Synthesis 1986: The Essential 1976-1986 1989: The Laser Years / Les Années Laser 1991: Jarre - Digitally Remastered / The Complete Works 1992: Intégrale 1995: Jarremix 1998: The Complete Oxygène 1998: Rendez-vous '98 , together with Apollo 440

1998: Together Now , with Tetsuya Komuro 2001: Interior Music , for Bang & Olufsen 2004: The Essential 2005: Jarre in China 2005: Live From Gdańsk (Koncert W Stoczni) 2006: Printemps de Bourges 2002 2006: Sublime Mix 2007: Oxygène: New Master Recording 2015: Essential Recollection 2016: franceinfo: Radiophonie Vol.9 (99 jingles for the French radio station France Info ) 2019: EōN (Generative Music App) 2019: Snapshots from EōN , limited edition of 2000 copies with impressions from the creation process, as well as moments of the generative music app selected by Jarre, release December 13, 2019

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1977	Oxygène Part 4 Oxygène	DE16 (20 weeks) DE	-	-	UK4th silver (11 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 1977
1978	Equinoxe Part V Équinoxe	-	-	-	UK45 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1978
1986	Fourth Rendez-Vous Rendez-Vous	-	-	-	UK65 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1986
1988	Revolutions Revolutions	-	-	-	UK52 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 1988
	London Kid Revolutions	-	-	-	UK52 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 1988
1990	Calypso en attendant Cousteau	-	-	-	UK91 (1 week) UK	-	First published: July 1990
1993	Chronology 4 Chronology	-	-	-	UK55 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1993
1997	Oxygène 8 Oxygène 7-13	-	AT17 (12 weeks) AT	-	UK17 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: February 1997
	Oxygène 10 Oxygène 7-13	-	-	-	UK21 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1997
1998	Rendez-Vous '98	-	-	-	UK12 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1998 with Apollo 440
2000	C'est la vie Métamorphoses	-	-	-	UK40 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 2000 with Natacha Atlas
	Tout est Bleu Métamorphoses	-	-	-	UK79 (1 week) UK	-	First published: July 2000

Remastered editions

1991 Jarre - Digitally Remastered / The Complete Works Remastered (Disques Dreyfus)

• Oxygène , (824 746-2)
• Equinoxe , (824 747-2)
• Les Chants Magnétiques , (824 748-2)
• Les Concerts En Chine Vol 1 + Vol 2 (yellow cover, 191 115-2 / blue cover, 191 116-2)
• Zoolook , (824750-2)
• RendezVous , (826 864-2)
• En Concert Houston / Lyon , (833 126-2)
• Révolutions , (837 421-2)
• Jarre Live , (841 176-2)
• En Attendant Cousteau , (843 624-2)

1997 96 kHz / 24 Bit Remastered by Scott Hull, Masterdisc, New York (EPIC / EPC)

96kHz / 24bit refers to the mastering process

• Oxygène , (EPC 487375 2)
• Equinoxe , (EPC 487376 2)
• Magnetic Fields , (EPC 488138 2)
• The Concerts in China , (1 CD edition, EPC 488139 2)
• Zoolook , (EPC 488 140 2)
• Rendez-Vous , (EPC 488141 2)
• Cities in Concert Houston Lyon , (EPC 487377 2)
• Revolutions , (EPC 488142 2)
• Destination Docklands , (formerly Live , EPC 488143 2)
• Waiting for Cousteau , (EPC 488144 2)
• Images - The Best of Jean Michel Jarre , (now with 20 instead of 17 titles, distribution in France, EPC 487 378 2)
• Chronology , (EPC 487379 2)
• Hong Kong , (EPC 488145 2)

2014–2015 Remastered (Sony Music)

Disques Dreyfus, BMG, Licensed to Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH

New Mastering from the Analog Tapes by Dave Dadwater, Remastered at Yakuda Audio, Glass mastered at Sony DADC

• Oxygène , (Mixed at Studio Gang, April 2014, 88843024682)
• Équinoxe , (Mixed at Studio Gang, May 2014, 88843024692)
• Magnetic Fields , (Mixed at Studio Gang, April 2014, 88843024702)
• The Concerts in China , (Mixed at Studios Ferber, April 2014, 88843024712)
• Zoolook (30th Anniversary Edition) , (Mixed at Croissy Studio, January 2015, 88875046352)
• Rendez-Vous (Mixed at Croissy Studio, January 2015, 88875046362)
• Cities in Concert Houston Lyon , (short 10-track version, 49 min, April 2014, 88843024722)
• Revolutions , (Mixed at Croissy Studio, January 2015, 88875046382)
• Destination Docklands , (Mixed at Croissy Studio, April 2014, 88843024732)
• Waiting for Cousteau (Mixed at Croissy Studio, January 2015, 88875046392)
• Chronology , (Mixed at Croissy Studio, January 2015, 88875046372)

Official video releases

Title, (Medium), Concert, (Published)

• Jean-Michel Jarre, The China Concerts , ( VHS ), 1981 (1989)
• Jean Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous Houston , (VHS), 1986 (1987)
• Jean Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous Lyon , (VHS), 1986 (1989)
• Destination Docklands - The London Concert , (VHS), 1988 (1989)
• Paris la Defense - A City in Concert , (VHS, DVD planned but never released as such), 1990 (1992)
• Images - The Best Of , (VHS), Music Video Compilation (1991)
• Jean Michel Jarre - Europe in Concert , (VHS), 1993 (1994)
• Oxygene in Moscow , (VHS, DVD, including the documentary Making The Steamroller Fly ), 1997 (1998)
• Jarre in China , (2 DVD + CD, 5.1 concert, THX certified), 2004
• Solidarność Live , (DVD + CD), 2005
• Oxygene - Live in your living room , (DVD + CD, also in 3D format), 2007

Awards for music sales

Silver record  France 1986: for the single Fourth Rendez-Vous / Quatrième Rendez-vous Golden record  France 1977: for the album Oxygène 1991: for the album Images - The Best Of 2004: for the album Aéro  Canada 1985: for the album Equinoxe  Netherlands 1979: for the album Equinoxe 1982: for the album Magnetic Fields  Poland 2005: for the video album Jarre in China  Spain 1981: for the album Magnetic Fields 1990: for the album Waiting For Cousteau 1993: for the album Oxygene 7-13  Hungary 2008: for the album Oxygène - 30th Anniversary 2 × gold record  France 1989: for the album Révolutions 1989: for the album The Essential 1990: for the album En Attendant Cousteau

Platinum record  France 1988: for the album Concerts Houston Lyon  Canada 1985: for the album Oxygène  Poland 2005: for the video album Solidarność Live 2006: for the album Live From Gdańsk (Koncert W Stoczni) 2016: for the album Electronica 1,2 2 × platinum record  France 1988: for the album Rendez-Vous 2005: for the video album Live in Beijing 3 × platinum record  Spain 1993: for the album Chronologie

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	3 × gold3	-	750,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	silver1	9 × gold9	5 × platinum5	2,190,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	platinum1	150,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	100,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	55,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	75,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	3 × gold3	3 × platinum3	450,000	elportaldemusica.es ES2 ES3
Hungary (MAHASZ)	-	gold1	-	3,000	slagerlistak.hu
United Kingdom (BPI)	4 × silver4th	8 × gold8th	platinum1	1,530,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	5 × silver5	30 × gold30th	14 × platinum14th

Concerts and tours

Concerts and tours

title	Type (number)	date	place	country	Audience approx.	Recording available on	comment
Place de la Concorde	concert	July 14, 1979	Place de la Concorde, Paris	France	1,500,000	VHS	Limited video release. No longer available. Directed by Guy Testerosa, Thierry Moulter
Concerts in China	Tour (5)	21.-29. October 1981	Beijing , Shanghai	China	218,000	Video & audio
Houston - A City in Concert	concert	April 5, 1986	Houston	United States	1,500,000	Video & audio
Lyon - Concert for the Pope	concert	October 5, 1986	Lyon	France	800,000	Video & audio
Destination Docklands	Concert (2)	8th-9th October 1988	Docklands, London	England	400,000	Video & audio
Paris La Defense	concert	July 14, 1990	La Defense, Paris	France	2,500,000	Video
Europe in Concert	Tour (37)	July 28 - October 16, 1993	Various	Belgium Germany England France Switzerland Spain Hungary	650,000	Video (VHS) & Audio (as Hong Kong )
Hong Kong	concert	March 11, 1994	Hong Kong Stadium	Hong Kong	40,000	Audio
Concert for Tolerance	concert	July 14, 1995	Eiffel Tower , Paris	France	1,000,000	Video, laserdisc
Oxygen tour	Tour (37)	March 3 - October 20, 1997	Various	Europe	230,000	-
Oxygene in Moscow	concert	September 6, 1997	Moscow State University , Moscow	Russia	3,500,000	Video
Electronic night	concert	July 14, 1998	Champ de Mars, Paris	France	800,000	-
Jarre @ Apple Expo - iMac night	concert	September 18, 1998	Porte de Versailles (Paris Expo)	France	6,000	-
The Twelve Dreams of the Sun	concert	December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000	Pyramids of Giza , Cairo	Egypt	120,000	unknown
Rendez-Vous In Space	concert	January 1, 2001	Okinawa	Japan	20,000	unknown	as The Visitors
Acropolis	Concert (2)	18. + 20. June 2001	Acropolis , Athens	Greece	15,000	-	Charity concerts
printemps des bourges	concert	April 12, 2002	Bourges	France	100	Audio	only as a download
AERO	concert	September 7, 2002	Gammel Vraa Enge, Aalborg	Denmark	40,000	unknown
China / Beijing	concert	October 10, 2004	Forbidden City , Tian'anmen Square , Beijin	China	15,000	Video & audio	Two-part concert
Solidarnosc	concert	August 26, 2005	Danzig	Poland	170,000	Video & audio
Water for Life	concert	December 16, 2006	Merzouga	Morocco	15,000	-
Oxygene in Concert	Tour (70)	September 19, 2007 to December 1, 2008	Various	Europe Russia	unknown	Video	Recording without an audience. Title: Oxygene live in your living room
In> Doors	Tour (17)	4-30 May 2009	Various	Europe	unknown	-	Hall concerts
2010	Tour (60)	March 1 - December 11, 2010	Various	Various	unknown	-	Hall concerts
Santiago de Compostela	concert	July 27, 2010	in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela , Galicia	Spain	unknown	-	separate open-air concert as part of the 2010 tour
2011	Tour (29)	May 29 - November 20, 2011	Various	Various	unknown	-	Continuation of the 2010 tour, mainly indoor concerts
Monaco	concert	July 1, 2011	-	Monaco	120,000	Live streaming	Free concert as part of the tour for the wedding of Prince Albert II of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock Stream recording on youtube (euronews)
Festival de Carthage	concert	August 12, 2013	Carthage	Tunisia	10,000	-
Electronica World Tour	Tour (55)	October 4 - July 15, 2017	Various	Europe, USA, Canada	approx. 275,000	-	Hall concerts
Live @ the dead sea	concert	April 6, 2017	Masada By The Dead Sea	Israel	about 10,000	-	separate open-air concert as part of the Electronica World Tour
The Connection Concert	concert	April 29, 2017	Cantabria	Spain	about 6000	-	separate open-air concert as part of the Electronica World Tour
Electronica World Tour	Tour (10)	March 22nd - April 21st, 2018	Various	Argentina, Chile, USA, Canada	unknown	-	Continuation of the world tour, mainly indoor concerts
Coachella	festival	April 20, 2018	Coachella , California	United States	-	-	1-hour excerpt from the tour program within the Coachella Festival .
The Green Concert	concert	23rd September 2018	Riad	Saudi Arabia	approx. 50,000	-	for the inauguration of the new King Abdullah Financial District
Azimuth Festival	concert	March 6, 2020	Al-'Ula	Saudi Arabia	unknown	Announced	Part of the 1st Azimuth Festival

Shows / installations without performance

• Zermatt , multimedia show, 25. – 26. September 1992, Zermatt , Switzerland , arranged to celebrate the 100 millionth Swatch watch and the alarm Swatch
• Lost City , 3 multimedia shows, 1. – 3. December 1992, Sun City , South Africa , in memory of the legend of the Lost City

Trivia

Use of music tracks

• Oxygéne (several titles):
  • in the ZDF program Löwenzahn in the episode Peter stands in the brook . Excerpts from the album Oxygene as music to accompany films about streams.
• Oxygène II :
  • as theme music of the series Mondbasis Alpha 1 in the second season of the German adaptation.
  • in the Australian war film Gallipoli (1981) by director Peter Weir.
  • in various training sequences from the Jackie Chan film The Snake in the Shadow of the Eagle .
  • Background music in the song “What Time Is It? (Zeitgeist 2000) "by the Berlin hip-hop group Harleckinz .
• Oxygéne IV :
  • Used several times in the ZDF broadcast Telemotor , including when testing the Ford Granada in 1978.
  • in the video game GTA IV in the various Internet cafes in the fictional city of Liberty City ( New York City ). Also on the radio station The Journey .
• Equinoxe Part 4 :
  • as theme music from 1982 to 1986 for the program ZDF Expedition , (today Terra X ).
• Arpegiator :
  • in the film 9½ weeks for an erotic scene between the actors Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger .

various

• On the Commodore 64 , interpretations of tracks by Jarre were very popular, especially in games of the early 1980s. B. in Yie Ar Kung Fu (Magnetic Fields IV), Bomb Jack (Magnetic Fields II) and Trolly Wally ( Equinoxe V, VI and VII).
• The main belt - asteroid (4422) Jarre was named after Jean-Michel and his father Maurice Jarre .
• The sampling computer Fairlight CMI can be seen in the music video Magnetic Fields Part 2 , where Jarre also shows the keyboard dismantled. This then new instrument was used musically by Jarre as one of the first artists.
• The album Chronologie starts and ends with the same sequence, so you could hear it in a loop, which fits the name.
• For many years, Jean-Michel Jarre did without the hyphen between the two first names Jean and Michel. New publications and the official website have shown the hyphen in the name Jarres again since 2015, so that the spelling is Jean-Michel Jarre again.
• Although the original albums Zoolook (1984), Cities In Concert Houston / Lyon (1986) and Waiting for Cousteau (1990) had the SPARS code DDD , which indicates digital recording and further processing, is in the remastered editions of 2015 the note New mastering from the original analog tapes is printed, which contradicts the original claim of a digital recording.
• After an appearance in Munich in March 2010, Jarre created a video message, which can be seen on his blog and on YouTube , in which he encourages his fans and allows recordings of his concerts, self-played covers and edited music to be shared with Jarres as long as it is fair and he is named as the originator of the music. Such recordings, cover versions as well as individual pieces and complete albums Jarres have since been very present on YouTube.
  ... feel free to film, edit, play, perform anything around my work as long as it's fair and you've been fair ... it's cool with me, it's okay with me.

literature

• Literature by and about Jean-Michel Jarre in the catalog of the German National Library

swell

1. ^ Marilyn August: Frenchman turns Houston into giant stage , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 18, 1986, p. 29.
2. ^ Pictures from Rendez-vous Houston on April 5, 1986 ( Memento from April 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Information on Rendez-vous Houston on April 5, 1986
4. ↑ Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene in the cinema and for download from laut.de.
5. ↑ Jean Michel Jarre official blog for the start of In> Doors 2009
6. ↑ Jean Michel Jarre announces the live broadcast on ustream.tv.
7. ↑ A Journey into Sound (arte) on YouTube .
8. ↑ Tobias Rapp : Video clip with Jean-Michel Jarre: Snowden becomes pop. In: Spiegel Online . April 15, 2016, Retrieved April 15, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Nico Heister: "A hero of our time": Jean-Michel Jarre recorded a techno song with Edward Snowden. In: rollingstone.de. April 15, 2016, Retrieved April 15, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Jean Michel Jarre announces “Oxygene 3” on Facebook. September 30, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016 . 
11. ^ Announcement of the cancellation of the concert in Chile by a local radio station (translated). November 4, 2017, accessed January 4, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Official press release. November 4, 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Jean-Michel Jarre will debut at the Coachella Festival in 2018. January 13, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018 . 
14. ↑ EŌN BY JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, IOS APP. November 7, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 . 
15. ↑ EōN on the official website
16. ↑ Homepage: David Jarre
17. ↑ imdb.com: David Jarre
18. ↑ imdb.com: Anne Parillaud
19. ↑ OMG! Gong Li secretly maries 70-year-old frensh guy. May 17, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 . 
20. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
21. ↑ Dates and visitor numbers according to the information on the official website of Jean-Michel Jarre
22. ↑ LaserDisc Database: Jean Michel Jarre: Concert for Tolerance - Paris, Tour Eiffel (1995)
23. ↑ According to the aerozonejmj.fr fan club
24. ↑ According to the aerozonejmj.fr fan club
25. ↑ Announcement of a concert recording. March 7, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
26. ^ List of the artists of the Azimuth Festval. February 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 . 
27. ↑ Official website, accessed on August 15, 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2011 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. 
28. ↑ jeanmicheljarre.com ( Memento from August 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
29. ↑ Discogs entry 1520779
30. ↑ Discogs entry 119929
31. ↑ Discogs entry 130356
32. ↑ Jarres' YouTube message to his fans

Web links

Commons : Jean-Michel Jarre  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website jeanmicheljarre.com
• semi-official UK site jarreuk.com
• German-language website jarrelook.de with current information
• complete discography
• Official Jarre Technologies website with AeroSystem One
• Jean-Michel Jarre (official) on Facebook /
• Jean-Michel Jarre - The Godfather of Electronic Music. In: Techno1000 (podcast), November 16, 2018
• BongoBoulevard: electric legend Jean-Michel Jarre surprised, January 9, 2019
• BongoBoulevard: Jean-Michel Jarre & Richie Hawtin: Blind Date with Sushi, January 16, 2019