From Loudersound.
Jean-Michel Jarre has just released a video for his brand new single Brutalism, which can be viewed below.
It’s the fist new music from Jarre’s upcoming album Oxymore, which will be released through Sony Music on October 21.
“That’s definitely a heavier track,” explains Jarre, who celebrated his 74th birthday earlier this week. “I wanted to create an apocalyptic mood. Like a kind of big bang of Berlin techno, at the beginning when it was an explosion, that kind of feel, maybe due to the remains of the war.”
Oxymore is an homage to the late French composer Pierre Henry, with whom Jarre had been intending on collaborating for Jarre’s Grammy-nominated project album Electronica. A musical journey where Pierre Henry’s sounds interact with Jarre’s world back-and-forth between analogue and digital sounds and inspired by the French movement ‘musique concrete’.
Oxymore‘s conceptual creation builds on the immersive qualities of its 2021 predecessor, Amazônia, which provided the soundtrack to Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition of the same name. This time, the creative process was road-tested in an exclusive 360 concert for a small number of fans. The finished album is also a binaural recording – ie. it was tracked using two microphones to give the music a 3D feel when listened with headphones. Oxymore will be accompanied by a VR world, Oxyville, which is designed to further enhance the listening experience.
“Oxyville will be a virtual music city, and in the future I will invite other artists to be a part of it, as well as hold masterclasses and other events,” adds Jarre. “I want it to become a sandbox for new music experiences.”
(Image credit: Sony Music)
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- Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part 5 - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £25.00, $31.75, €30.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 15-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 21, 2024 at 1:13 pm
JEAN MICHEL JARRE Oxygene Part 5 (Live version featured on 1978 UK CBS 16-track 'California Jam 2' double live vinyl LP recorded in Southern California, also includes tracks by Aerosmith, Santana, Heart & Ted Nugent. Housed in gatefold picturesleeve which original sticker. The sleeve has slight wear on the edges, the vinyl looks unplayed. Looking great for a vinyl over 40 years old! 88318)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.70, €12.00 (New Item) (arrived 24-Sep-2024 09:08)on November 21, 2024 at 1:13 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Equinoxe (Late 70s issue of the 1978 UK 8-track vinyl LP on the red & purple Polydor label, the fourth album & second major release featuring some of the composer extraordinaire's most famous work. The picture sleeve has a colour image of JMJ on the reverse and the catalogue numbers are printed inside a black rectangular box while the vinyl looks barely played POLD5007)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.70, €12.00 (New Item) (arrived 12-Sep-2024 13:44)on November 21, 2024 at 1:13 pm
JEAN MICHEL JARRE Magnetic Fields (1981 UK 5-track vinyl LP, the fifth studio album by French electronic musician including the singles Part 2 and Part 4 [Remix], housed in a glossy picture sleeve with the illustrated credits inner, The sleeveshows only light shelfwear and the vinyl shows only the lightest signs of play POLS1033)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.24, €14.40 (New Item) (arrived 16-Sep-2024 08:32)on November 21, 2024 at 1:13 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Zoolook (1984 UK 7-track vinyl LP with picture labels, the fourth overall mainstream studio album from the French composer, guest starring Laurie Anderson & Adrian Belew. The glossy picture sleeve shows minor wear and thevinyl grades Excellent with few signs of play POLH15)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts In China - Complete - Stickered - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £30.00, $38.10, €36.00 (New Item) (arrived 16-Sep-2024 09:27)on November 21, 2024 at 1:13 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE The Concerts In China (1982 UK 15-track double LP, recorded live during five concerts presented in Peking & Shanghai, the first performances of rock or contemporary music ever given in the People's Republic of China, including forty minutes of then-new material, complete with illustrated tracklisting inners, hype stickered gatefold picture sleeve & rare merchandise insert. The cover shows a little mild scuffing with a small split to the opening, the flyer has a few creases and both vinyl discs appear near 'as new' PODV3)
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