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 - Rendez-Vous - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $14.40, €13.44 (New Item) (arrived 06-Feb-2023 13:18)on February 8, 2023 at 2:44 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Rendez-Vous (1986 UK 6-track LP including Last Rendez-Vous: Ron's Piece, intended to be the first piece of music played & recorded in space. The picture sleeve shows a little storage wear & the vinyl is excellent with few signs of play POLH27)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Hypnose - French - 7" vinyl - £195.00, $234.00, €218.40 (New Item) (arrived 03-Dec-2022 10:42)on February 8, 2023 at 2:44 pm
JEAN MICHEL JARRE & DOMINIQUE WEBB Hypnose (Very rare 1973 French original wide centred 7" vinyl single on the Motors labels, featuring Parties I & II, housed in the original textured green tinted picture sleeve with red text. Obtained from the private archives of the famous RTL Radio Library in Paris, the sleeve has a RTL Radio stamp on the back, and the Side 2 label is date stamped 'Jul 1973'. The sleeve has some light wear with a small nick to the opening edge, otherwise light signs of age, whilst the vinyl has minimal signs of play despite being almost fifty years old. You will be unlikely to ever find a better French copy than this! MT4043)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Revolutions - German - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.00, €11.20 (New Item) (arrived 24-Aug-2022 09:51)on February 8, 2023 at 2:44 pm
JEAN MICHEL JARRE Revolutions (1988 West German pressed 7-track vinyl LP with the blue & red split label, housed in the glossy picture sleeve. The sleeve shows only only minor edge wear and the vinyl looks barely played)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Rendez-vous Iv - Face Slv - UK - 12" vinyl - £25.00, $30.00, €28.00 (New Item) (arrived 26-Sep-2022 13:52)on February 8, 2023 at 2:44 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Rendez-Vous IV (Rare 1986 UK Polydor 3-track 12" vinyl single, featuring Special Remix, Original Mix and the previously unreleased Moon Machine, black and white 'face' picture sleeve. The sleeve reveals some light edge/ring wearand a little age discoloration, whilst the vinyl shows the odd cosmetic surface scuff but remains excellent POSPX788)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Revolutions - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $14.40, €13.44 (New Item) (arrived 01-Oct-2022 09:56)on February 8, 2023 at 2:44 pm
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 just a little light shelfwear&the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play POLH45)
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