
From Loudersound.
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre will release a new album, Amazônia, digitally through Sony Music on April 7 (the CD and vinyl versions will be released two days later on. April 9).
Amazônia is a 52-minute musical score for a new project by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado for the Philharmonic Paris. An immersive exhibition focussing on the Brazilian Amazon, featuring more than 200 photographs and other media by Salgado, who travelled the region for six years, capturing the forest, the rivers, the mountains and the people who live there, and most of the work will be seen publicly for the first time. At the heart of the exhibit is an invitation to see, hear and think about the future of biodiversity and the place of humans in the living world.
Jarre’s accompanying sound-creation is a symphonic world which will engulf visitors to the exhibit in the sounds of the forest. Using a blend of electronic and orchestral instruments with other real-life natural sounds, the score has also been recorded in binaural audio for a truly immersive experience.
“I wanted to avoid the ethnomusicological approach, or creating background music,” Jarre explains. “So I conceived a sort of toolbox containing musical elements – orchestral and electronic – intended to recreate or evoke the timbre of natural sounds, to which I added sounds from the environment and finally ethnic sources (voices, songs, and instruments) from the sound archives of the Ethnography Museum of Geneva (MEG).
“I approached the Amazon with respect, in a poetic and impressionistic way. I chose the vocal and sound elements in their evocative dimension, rather than trying to be faithful to a particular ethnic group. It seemed interesting to me to fantasise the forest. It carries with it a powerful imagination; for both Westerners and Amerindians. This music also evokes a form of nomadism, as if sounds appear and disappear during a migration. It was necessary to go back to the principles of orchestration of the sounds of nature, to work from sounds which follow one another randomly, but which can compose a harmony or a dissonance. As in any symphony, the work has moments of clarity or tension.”
The Amazônia exhibition opens at the Philharmonie de Paris on April 7 and will then tour several cities around the world – from Paris to São Paulo, via Rio de Janeiro, Rome and London. It features over 200 photographs, as well as films including testimonials from indigenous personalities on the need to save their culture and environment.
Exhibit locations are as follows, dates TBC:
Paris Philharmonie de Paris
Rome Maxxi
São Paulo SESC Pompeia
Rio de Janeiro Museu Do Amanha
London Science Museum
Amazônia will also be available digitally in both standard and binaural versions from April 7, with CD and vinyl to follow on April 9.
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- Jean-Michel Jarre - Amazonia - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £26.99, $36.71, €30.23 (New Item) (arrived 09-Apr-2021 12:36)on April 16, 2021 at 1:04 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Amazonia (2021 UK/EU double album black vinyl 2-LP - Amazonia is a music project with renowned award-winning photographer Sebastiao Salgado about the Amazonian Forrest. The exhibition is commissioned for the Philharmonic Paris, starting there on April 7th, with 52 minutes of brand new music composed by Jean Michel Jarre, especially to accompany the photos. The exhibition will then travel to other cities across the globe including Rome, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and London. Gatefold picture sleeve, factory sealed)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook - German - vinyl LP - £12.00, $16.32, €13.44 (New Item) (arrived 18-Nov-2020 16:47)on April 16, 2021 at 1:04 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Zoolook (1984 German 7-track vinyl LP, guest starring Laurie Anderson, with glossy picture sleeve and album credits inner. The sleeve shows only a little scuffing/wear to edges & the vinyl looks barely played)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene & Equinoxe - Hype sticker - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £30.00, $40.80, €33.60 (New Item) (arrived 27-Apr-2020 12:49)on April 16, 2021 at 1:04 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Oxygene & Equinoxe (1977 UK limited edition 14-track double vinyl LP repackaging of the two classic French Electronic works, hype stickered gatefold picture sleeve reproducing the original artwork for both albums. The sleeve displays just a little light edge wear, whilst both vinyl discs look barely played)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Revolutions - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $16.32, €13.44 (New Item) (arrived 14-Jul-2020 13:16)on April 16, 2021 at 1:04 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Revolutions (1988 UK 7-track LP, the sixth studio album by the French composer including the singles Revolutions & London Kid [a collaboration with Hank Marvin], picture sleeve. The sleeve shows justa little light shelfwear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play POLH45)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Part 4) - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.88, €8.96 (New Item) (arrived 21-Jul-2020 12:36)on April 16, 2021 at 1:04 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Oxygene [Part 4] (1977 UK injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Part 6. Issued in a Polydor company die-cut paper sleeve, the vinyl remains in excellent condition)
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