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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 - Waiting For Cousteau - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £35.00, $45.85, €41.65 (New Item) (arrived 04-Sep-2024 17:32)on September 8, 2024 at 1:08 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Waiting For Cousteau (Scarce 1990 UK 4-track LP, glossy picture sleeve. The sleeve is Excellent with minimal shelf wear & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with very little play)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Part 4) - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.48, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 23-Jul-2024 17:00)on September 8, 2024 at 1:08 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Oxygene (Part 4) (1977 UK injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Part 6, Polydor company die-cut paper sleeve)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Jarre In China - French - 3-disc CD/DVD Set - £39.99, $52.39, €47.59 (New Item) (arrived 19-Apr-2024 10:44)on September 8, 2024 at 1:08 am
JEAN MICHEL JARRE Jarre In China (2005 French edition 3-disc set comprising of the complete concert across 2 PAL Region 2-5 DVDs recorded in high definition THX complete with audio commentary by the man himself in English and French plus 'Sur lestraces du dernier empereur' 52 minute documentary and photo gallery plus BONUS CD featuring 70 minute audio version of the concert!)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts In China - Complete - Stickered - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £30.00, $39.30, €35.70 (New Item) (arrived 27-Apr-2024 10:41)on September 8, 2024 at 1:08 am
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 & ring wear, the flyer has a few creases and both vinyl discs appear near 'as new' PODV3)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.65, €17.85 (New Item) (arrived 03-May-2024 11:20)on September 8, 2024 at 1:08 am
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 a little shelfwear & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition POLH15)
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