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 - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.90, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 07-May-2024 10:38)on May 7, 2024 at 11:53 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Oxygene (1977 UK first press 6-track vinyl LP, the mainstream breakthrough for the French electronic instrumentalist / composer, containing the first six movements to the Oxygene piece [the sequel was released in 1997], housed in a fully laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl appears barely played)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.90, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 06-Mar-2024 15:02)on May 7, 2024 at 11:53 am
JEAN MICHEL JARRE Equinoxe (1978 UK red label 8-track LP, the fourth album & second major release featuring some of the composer extraordinaire's most famous work, fully laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve & vinyl are near mint with few signsof wear or play POLD5007)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.12, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 12-Jan-2024 13:54)on May 7, 2024 at 11:53 am
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)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Calypso - UK - 12" vinyl - £18.00, $22.68, €21.06 (New Item) (arrived 15-Jan-2024 15:59)on May 7, 2024 at 11:53 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Calypso (1990 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single including Extended Version & Calypso Part 2, picture sleeve. The sleeve has only minor edgewear and a little creasing, whilst apart from a few light scuffs, the vinyl has few signs of play PZ84)
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Calypso - UK - 12" vinyl - £18.00, $22.68, €21.06 (New Item) (arrived 15-Jan-2024 17:00)on May 7, 2024 at 11:53 am
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Calypso (1990 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single including Extended Version & Calypso Part 2, picture sleeve. The sleeve has only minor edgewear and a little creasing, whilst apart from a few light scuffs, the vinyl has few signs of play PZ84)
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