Revolutions (Jean-Michel-Jarre-Album)
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| Studio album by Jean Michel Jarre | ||||
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Publication |
August 1988 |
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| Label (s) | Disques Dreyfus | |||
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Electronica , New Age , Ambient , Pop |
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running time |
44 min 24 s |
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| Allmusic |
  
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Revolutions (French title Révolutions ) is a predominantly instrumental music album by the French musician Jean-Michel Jarre . It was first published in August 1988 by Disques Dreyfus in France and Polydor in the rest of the world. Revolutions is Jarre's ninth studio album. The highest chart placement was in England with number 2. The album wasperformed in fullon October 8th and 9th, 1988 in London , England at a major concert at the Royal Victoria Docks . The live album Live (1996 inRenamed Destination Docklands ).
Specialty
The album had to be revised and re-released some time after its first release due to a legal dispute. The reason was a sample of a Ney revised by Jarre , played by the Turkish Ney player Kudsi Erguner and passed on to Jarre via the sound engineer Xavier Bellinger , who opened the eponymous piece, Revolutions . Although Erguner played the Ney at the two concerts in London, the sample was not intended for publication on CD, but for the concert of the 200th anniversary of the French national holiday on July 14, 1990 at La Défense in Paris . Erguner went to court, the lawsuit ended in a settlement. Jarre removed the ney from the piece and replaced it with Arabic strings, which now also accompanied the live performances. In later editions the title was changed from Revolutions to Revolution, Revolutions .
The piece London Kid was created from a collaboration with the British guitarist Hank Marvin , who also played it with Jarre at the two concerts in London.
According to the text accompanying the album , September is a dedication to the African politician Dulcie September , who was murdered on March 29, 1988 during the opening of the African National Congress office in Paris.
Track list
Written and arranged by Jean-Michel Jarre.
Title list in comparison
| 1988 (Ney) | 1988 (Arab string orchestra) |
1991 remastered | |||
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| Industrial revolution | -: - | -: - | -: - | ||
| Overture | 5:20 | Industrial Revolution Overture | 5:20 | Industrial Revolution: Overture | 5:20 |
| Part 1 | 5:08 | Industrial Revolution Part 1 | 5:08 | Industrial revolution: Part 1 | 5:08 |
| Part 2 | 2:18 | Industrial Revolution Part 2 | 2:18 | Industrial revolution: Part 2 | 2:18 |
| Part 3 | 3:47 | Industrial Revolution Part 3 | 3:47 | Industrial revolution: Part 3 | 3:47 |
| London kid | 4:34 | London kid | 4:34 | London kid | 4:34 |
| Revolutions | 5:01 | Revolutions | 4:55 | Revolution, revolutions | 4:57 |
| Tokyo Kid | 5:22 | Tokyo Kid | 5:18 | Tokyo Kid | 5:22 |
| Computer Weekend | 5:00 | Computer Weekend | 4:38 | Computer Weekend | 5:00 |
| September | 3:52 | September | 3:52 | September | 3:52 |
| The emigrant | 3:56 | The emigrant | 4:05 | L'Emigrant | 3:56 |
Major versions
| year | Output form | medium | country | Label | Catalog number | comment |
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| 1988 | original | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, Polydor | 837 098-2, 837 098-2 | First edition Ney SPARS Code: ADD |
| 1988 | original | CD | Germany | Polydor | 837 098-2 | New edition Arabic |
| 1991 | Remastered | CD | France | Disques Dreyfus | 837 421 2 | Series 'Digitally Remastered' |
| 1997 | Remastered | CD | France, Germany | Disques Dreyfus, EPIC | FDM 36148-2, EPC 488142 2 | 96 kHz / 24bit technology by Scott Hull |
| 2015 | Remastered | CD | Europe | Sony Music | 88875046382 | by Dave Dadwater |
occupation
- Jean-Michel Jarre - synthesizer , percussion
- Dominique Perrier - synthesizer
- Michel Geiss - synthesizer
- Francis Rimbert - Additional synthesizer programming
- Jo Hammer - synthesizer, drums
- Guy DeLacroix - bass
- The Bruno Rossignol Choir - Choir (songs 1,2,7)
- Female Choir From Mali - Choir ( September )
- Kudsi Erguner - Ney ( Revolutions )
- Hank Marvin - guitar ( London Kid )
- Jun Miyake - Trumpet and Megaphone ( Tokyo Kid )
- Sylvain Durand - Fairlight CMI Synthesizer ( Tokyo Kid )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ allmusic.com Album Review "Revolutions" , accessed December 10, 2015.
- ↑ everyhit.com
- ↑ jeanmicheljarre.com
- ^ Laurent Aubert, The Music of the Other: New Challenges for Ethnomusicology in a Global Age, p. 61.