The Concerts in China

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The Concerts in China
Live album by Jean Michel Jarre

Publication
(s)

May 1982

admission

October 1981

Label (s) Disques Dreyfus or Polydor

Genre (s)

Electronica , world music , ambient

running time

78 min 17 s

production

Jean Michel Jarre

chronology
Magnetic Fields
(1981) 		The Concerts in China Music for Supermarkets
(1983)
source rating
Allmusic

The Concerts in China (in France Les Concerts en Chine ) was released in 1982 and is the sixth and first live album by the French musician and producer Jean Michel Jarre . It was recorded in October 1981 during Jarre's live concerts in China. He appeared there as the first western musician.

Specialty

The album consists on the one hand of previously published pieces by Jarres from the albums Oxygène , Équinoxe and Magnetic Fields as well as new compositions that are influenced by traditional Chinese culture. You can hear mainly live recordings of the songs, audience noises and the new song recorded in the studio, “Souvenir of China”.
The album was initially released on two LPs and later as a double CD. In addition, the album was also produced in two separate CDs called "The Concerts in China Vol. 1" and "The Concerts in China Vol. 2". In the former, the original red on the album cover was changed to blue, while in the latter, the cover was colored yellow.

In 1997 the "Remastered Version" of the album was released. The original album was cut to a total of 78 minutes and 17 seconds by cutting out the audience noises and shortening the pauses between the songs in order to create the possibility of burning the entire concert onto a single CD. The mastering was done by Scott Hull .
In 2014 another remastered edition, now again with 2 CDs, was released by Sony Music. In terms of content, it corresponds to the first edition.

Track list

Original version (1982/2014)

CD or LP 1

  1. The Overture - 4:47
  2. Arpegiator - 6:54
  3. Equinoxes 4 - 7:49
  4. Fishing Junks at Sunset - 9:38 am
  5. Band in the Rain - 1:29
  6. Equinoxe 7 - 9:54

CD or LP 2

  1. Orient Express - 4:22
  2. Magnetic Fields 1 - 0:21
  3. Magnetic Fields 3 - 3:48
  4. Magnetic Fields 4-6:49
  5. Laser Harp - 3:35
  6. Night in Shanghai - 7:02
  7. The Last Rumba - 2:07
  8. Magnetic Fields 2 - 6:30
  9. Souvenir of China - 3:54

Remastered Version (1997)

  1. The Overture - 4:47
  2. Arpegiator - 6:51
  3. Equinoxes 4 - 7:39
  4. Fishing Junks at Sunset - 9:35 am
  5. Band in the Rain - 1:23
  6. Equinoxe 7 - 9:52
  7. Orient Express - 4:21
  8. Magnetic Fields 1 - 0:28
  9. Magnetic Fields 3 - 3:48
  10. Magnetic Fields 4-6:43
  11. Laser Harp - 3:26
  12. Night in Shanghai - 7:02
  13. The Last Rumba - 2:03
  14. Magnetic Fields 2-6:19
  15. Souvenir of China - 4:00

Major versions

year Output form medium country Label Catalog number comment
1981 original LP (2) France, Germany Disques Dreyfus, Polydor FDM 18110, 2612 039 First edition LP
1983 original CD (2) France, Germany Disques Dreyfus, Polydor FDM CD-18110, 811 551-2 First edition CD
1992 Republication CD France Disques Dreyfus FDM 36143-2, FDM 36144-2 Blue and Yellow CD
1997 Remastered CD France, Germany Disques Dreyfus, EPIC FDM 36160-2, EPC 488139 2 96 kHz / 24bit technology, by Scott Hull
2015 Remastered CD (2) Europe Sony Music 88843024712 by Dave Dadwater

occupation

Instrumentalists

Additional staff

  • Pierre Mourey - coordination of the instruments.
  • Peking Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra - Chinese orchestra for Fishing Junks at Sunset .
  • Huang Feili - conductor of the Beijing Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra.
  • Mrs. Li Meng and Mr. Wang Zhi - Guzheng instrumentalists for Fishing Junks at Sunset

production

  • produced by Jean Michel Jarre
  • Sound engineering and mixing: Jean Michel Jarre
    • Assistant technician: Pierre Mourey

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allmusic.com Album Review "The Concerts in China" , accessed October 26, 2015