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 - 2nd - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.50, €11.60 (New Item) (arrived 22-Apr-2024 11:24)on April 25, 2024 at 10:06 pm
JEAN MICHEL JARRE Oxygene (1977 UK 6-track vinyl LP, glossy picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some mild shelfwear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with very little play)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Revolutions - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.00, €13.92 (New Item) (arrived 16-Jan-2024 09:10)on April 25, 2024 at 10:06 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 has a small patch of missing laminate where a price sticker used to be, however there is little sign of other wear & the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with a few inaudible paper scuffs and light signs of spindle wear POLH45)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Part 4) - P/S - UK - 7" vinyl - £12.00, $15.00, €13.92 (New Item) (arrived 28-Dec-2023 10:06)on April 25, 2024 at 10:06 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Oxygene (Part 4) (1977 UK injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Part 6, with the scarce title sleeve. The sleeve has some general storage wear whilst the vinyl shows little sign of play)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe - Japanese - vinyl LP - £35.00, $43.75, €40.60 (New Item) (arrived 30-Dec-2023 10:55)on April 25, 2024 at 10:06 pm
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Equinoxe (1979 Japanese 8-track LP, complete with the Japanese insert, picture sleeve & matching picture obi-strip which has an advert for the Korg synthesizer on the back. The sleeve is Excellent with a light spot of corner scuffing & the vinyl appears Near Mint MPF-1214)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.00, €13.92 (New Item) (arrived 12-Jan-2024 13:54)on April 25, 2024 at 10:06 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, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little foxing & the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with few signs of play POLH27)
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