Oxygène

Oxygène
Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre
Publication (s)	5th December 1976
admission	August 1976 - November 1976
Label (s)	Disques Dreyfus ( Sony BMG )
Genre (s)	Electronica , New Age , Ambient , Pop
running time	39 min 44 s
production	Jean Michel Jarre
chronology Les Granges Brûlées (1973) Oxygène Équinoxe (1978)

Oxygène ( French for oxygen ) is an instrumental - album of electronic music composed and produced by French musician Jean-Michel Jarre . It was published in France in December 1976 , then worldwide in July 1977. Oxygène brought Jarre the breakthrough as a third studio album and sold around 12 million times worldwide. The piece Oxygène (Part IV) , which, along with Part II , was released as a single, was particularly well received .

The cover motif comes from a work by the French artist Michel Granger , which was discovered by Jarre's then partner Charlotte Rampling shortly before the album was released.

For the 30th anniversary, Jarre recorded the entire album again in 2007 and also embarked on a major tour with the original equipment. The new recording and a recording of the concert form - albeit without an audience - were published under the title Oxygene (New Master Recording) .

Track list

• Written and arranged by Jean-Michel Jarre.

1. Oxygène (Part I) - 7:40
2. Oxygène (Part II) - 8:08
3. Oxygène (Part III) - 2:55
4. Oxygène (Part IV) - 4:14
5. Oxygène (Part V) - 10:23
6. Oxygène (Part VI) - 6:20

Professional evaluation
source	rating
Allmusic

Major versions

year	Output form	medium	country	Label	Catalog number	comment
1976	original	LP	France, Germany	Les Disques Motors, Polydor	2933 207, 2344 068	First edition
1983	original	CD	France, Germany	Disques Dreifus, Polydor	FDM CD-77000, 800 015-2	First CD pressing
1991	Remastered	CD	France	Disques Dreyfus	824 746-2	Series 'Digitally Remastered'
1997	Remastered	CD	France, Germany	Disques Dreyfus, EPIC	FDM 36140-2, EPC 487375 2	96kHz / 24bit technology, by Scott Hull
2014	Remastered	CD	Europe	Sony Music	88843024682	by Dave Dadwater

Charts

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1976	Oxygène	DE8 (17 weeks) DE	AT10 (16 weeks) AT	CH85 (1 week) CH	UK2 (24 weeks) UK	US78 (19 weeks) US	First published: December 5, 1976

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

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	DE16 (20 weeks) DE	-	-	UK4 (11 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1977

Cover versions

• Hank Marvin coverte Oxygène (Part IV) on his 1993's album Heartbeat .
• Vertigo covered the song in 1997
• Jean-Paul Barre also covered the title.
• Señor Coconut and his Orchestra covered Oxygène (Part II) on their 2003 album Fiesta Songs

Awards

• 1976 Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy for Oxygène .

occupation

• Jean-Michel Jarre - ARP 2600 , VCS 3 , Synthi AKS , RMI Harmonic Synthesizer, Farfisa Professional Organ, Eminent 310 Unique , Mellotron and the rhythm machine KORG Minipops 7.

production

• produced by Jean-Michel Jarre
• Sound engineering and mixing: Jean-Pierre Janiaud
  • Assistant technician: Patrick Foulon
• Mastering : Scott Hull

literature

• Alex Hughes, Keith Reader: Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture . Ed .: Alex Hughes. CRC Press, 2003, ISBN 0-203-00330-6 , pp. 303 (French, “ online ” [accessed September 7, 2011]).

Web links

• Oxygène at Discogs
• Oxygène and videos for the 30th anniversary 2007 at JarreUK (offline)
• Jarre Discography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://aerozonejmj.fr/le-succes-mondial-doxygene-1977/
2. ↑ 40 years of "Oxygene": A legendary cover
3. ↑ allmusic.com Album Review "Oxygène" , accessed September 7, 2011
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
5. ↑ Alex Hughes, Keith Reader: Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture , 2003, p. 303
6. ↑ amazona.de: Minipops 7