Music for supermarkets
| Musique pour Supermarché | ||||
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| Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre | ||||
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Publication |
July 6, 1983 |
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admission |
February 1983 - May 1983 |
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| Label (s) | Disques Dreyfus | |||
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running time |
29 min 49 s |
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Music for Supermarkets (French title: Musique pour Supermarché ) was released in 1983 and is the seventh music album by the French artist Jean Michel Jarre . It also represents the sixth, instrumental concept album . Only a copy was pressed onto a record and then the master tapes and all other recordings were destroyed.
Specialty
In 1983 Jean Michel Jarre was asked to compose the background music for the Orrimbe show art exhibition . The exhibition themed objects from supermarkets to which the background music should suit. Jarre agreed, composed, and recorded the album between February and May 1983. The exhibition, organized by a group of young artists, including Friends Jarres, took place between June 2nd and 30th, 1983 in the Jean-Claude-Riedel-Galerie. After the end of the exhibition, all works should be auctioned. Inspired by this, Jarre decided to have Musique pour Supermarché produce only one album and auction it off with the works of art from the exhibition for a good cause. After the album was auctioned, all master tapes and remaining recordings were deleted or destroyed. The record, now the only remaining copy of the album in the world, immediately became one of the most valuable and most wanted music albums in the world. In addition to the LP, the cover also contains a twelve-page photo album. Eleven pages are each stuck with a Polaroid photo, which documents the exact manufacturing process of the plate step by step. The future buyer could place a photo of himself on the left blank. The buyer was initially kept secret, but later revealed as "M. Gerard". He had acquired the album for 69,000 francs, at that time around 23,000 German marks .
Shortly after its auction, the album was broadcast once in full on Radio Luxembourg . Jarre announced the album himself with the words «Piratez-moi! » (" Cut with! "," Make a pirated copy! ") And called on the listeners to record the broadcast. In fact, there are recordings of the radio broadcast by third parties, but only in poor sound quality, since Radio Luxembourg, as a so-called radio périphérique , only broadcast medium and long waves towards France at that time .
The music today
Despite the destruction of the master tapes, the music is not completely lost, since the composition has apparently been preserved.
The following pieces of music from the album were re-recorded and reused and released in Jarre's later albums:
- "Music for Supermarkets Part 2" as "Fifth Rendez-Vous (Part III)" on the 1986 album Rendez-vous .
- "Music For Supermarkets Part 4" as "Blah Blah Café" on the 1984 album Zoolook .
- "Music For Supermarkets Part 6" is the second half of the song "Diva" on the 1984 album Zoolook.
- "Music For Supermarkets Part 7" as short fade-ins at the beginning and end of "Ethnicolor II" on the album Zoolook from 1984.
- "Music for Supermarkets" as a two-minute track on the sampler Planet Jarre .
Track list
- Written and arranged by Jean-Michel Jarre.
- Music for Supermarkets Ouverture - 04:08
- Music for Supermarkets Part 1 - 02:33
- Music for Supermarkets Part 2 - 03:14
- Music for Supermarkets Part 3 - 02:16
- Music for Supermarkets Part 4 - 03:16
- Music for Supermarkets Part 5 - 05:23
- Music for Supermarkets Part 6 - 03:39
- Music for Supermarkets Part 7 - 03:51