Showing posts with label Full Concert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Full Concert. Show all posts

26/06/2014

Moscú celebra sus 850 años con macroespectáculos en la plaza Roja

6 de septiembre de 1997



La nueva Rusia se viste estos días de gala en Moscú para celebrar el 850º aniversario de su capital con un mastodóntico programa de actividades, algunas de las cuales pueden terminar en el libro Guinness de los récords. El director de cine Andréi Konchalovski montó anoche un macroespectáculo en la plaza Roja; Luciano Pavarotti cantará mañana ante una multitud en el mismo escenario; los artistas del Bolshoi representaron ayer escenas de óperas rusas en la plaza de las catedrales del Kremlin, y Jean Michel Jarre ofrece esta noche un tecno-concierto masivo frente al rascacielos estalinista de la Universidad Lomonosov. Se trata de crear una imagen de modernidad y grandeza, a la mayor gloria del alcalde y presidenciable Yuri Luzhkov.

Oleg Belikov, director ejecutivo de los fastos, asegura que los fuegos artificiales se verán desde todos los barrios de la capital; que Jarre contará con su tradicional derroche de rayos láser y otras técnicas ultramodernas y con dos enormes pantallas sobre el edificio de la universidad, y que la ceremonia de clausura convertirá mañana toda una tribuna del estadio de Luzhniki en un gigantesco escenano.Luzhkov ha querido que todo se haga a lo grande. Durante cerca de año y medio, se han gastado para preparar la fiesta más de 10.000 millones de pesetas, la quinta parte procedente de patrocinios privados. Hasta el tiempo tiene que acompañar, si no falla el dispositivo especial, con ocho aviones y dos helicópteros, que permitirá el bombardeo de las nubes con productos químicos especiales para que suelten su carga fuera de Moscú y no puedan aguar la fiesta.


Sólo 6.000 privilegiados provistos de invitación tuvieron anoche ocasión de presenciar con comodidad el espectáculo de Konchalovski en la plaza Roja, con el fondo de los muros y torres, del Kremlin y del mausoleo que alberga la tumba de Lenin. Para ellos ideó un peculiar montaje Andréi Konchalovski.

El cineasta afirma que su obra se sitúa, en cuanto a la forma, "entre la escenificación de Aida ante la pirámide de Keops y un superconcierto de rock", pero que, en lo que respecta al contenido, tiene más que ver "con la música clásica rusa, la historia y la mitología". Ha contado para ello con la ayuda de Mark Fisher, diseñador de giras de los Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Elton John y Tina Tumer.

Desmesura

Coros, bailarines, bandas militares, una orquesta sinfónica e incluso un elefante participaron en el espectáculo titulado Nuestra antigua capital, igual que un libro escrito por la madre de Konchalovski, Natalia, con ocasión del 800º aniversario de Moscú, en 1947, y con Stalin, el hombre de hierro, en el poder. Entre tanta desmesura, lo que más llamó la atención fue un enorme dragón de 35 metros de largo con una cabeza de 3,5 metros de alto y 2 de ancho.

La base del concierto de Jean Michel Jarre será está noche su archiconocido tema Oxigene, pero con inclusiones de coros y música rusa y toques relativos a la historia de Rusia. Unos 100.000 policías intentarán que la fiesta no degenere en tumulto, y centenares de perros especialmente adiestrados filtrarán a los asistentes para evitar el paso de droga. El espectáculo se podrá ver desde diferentes puntos de Moscú, ya que el propio cielo será uno de sus escenarios.

El programa de festejos es casi interminable, con la música de protagonista indiscutible. El elenco del Bolshoi ofreció ayer a un público muy restringido, entre el bosque de cúpulas doradas de la plaza de las catedrales del Kremlin, una selección de las más famosas óperas rusas para ilustrar la historia del país y de su actual capital.

Unos 2.000 cantores de toda Rusia participarán en un festival de coros ante la recién inaugurada catedral de Cristo Salvador, una copia exacta (por fuera) de la que Stalin convirtió en solar, y levantada en el mismo lugar que su precedente, allí donde, durante décadas, hubo una gran piscina al aire libre.

Grupos artísticos de Ucrania, Bielorrusia, Polonia y otros países actuarán mañana en la plaza Roja en una especie de maratón titulado El mundo eslavo saluda a Moscú.

Todo un superfestival a la mayor gloria de la ciudad que se presenta como escaparate de la nueva Rusia, llena de luces y sombras, aunque durante la fiesta nadie quiera hablar de estas últimas. Y, por supuesto, a la mayor gloria de Yuri Luzhkov.

          

18/02/2014

Jean Michel Jarre - Place de la Concorde 14th July 1979 (Promo video)


Recorded 14th july 1979 in Paris.
Total playtime approx. 30 minutes (not the full concert).

An unparalleled event - 1 million people gathered - in a unique setting: La Place de La Concorde in Paris. from this exceptional concert - Jean-Michel Jarre directed the first musical videogram: images specially made for videocassette. music from Oxygene and Equinoxe - directed and conceived by Jean-Michel Jarre"
(text taken from the video sleeve)

        

Jean Michel Jarre - The Project 10-10-10 (Full concert)


      

Jean Michel Jarre performance at The O2 in London, on 10th October 2010.
10 10 10 project -- a "self-pirated" live show was broadcast via internet at 8 PM London Time.

28/12/2013

Jean Michel Jarre live concert in Sochi 20/12/2013

20/12/2013
The opening of the socio-cultural center by the legendary Jean-Michel Jarre. Concert "Opening" Galaxy"


    


Source: www.ntv.ru

04/12/2013

Jean Michel Jarre - Europe 2 Acoustic Concert 01.04.1994

Unplugged sur Europe 2
Date : 1er avril 1994
Lieu : Studios d'Europe 2, Paris, FRANCE

        


Pour un 1er avril, ce concert ne pouvait prendre qu'une forme de poisson. Pourtant, Europe 2 avait laissé planer le doute en annonçant avec fracas l'imminence d'un concert acoustique de Jean Michel Jarre.

C'est donc à la date fatidique que les auditeurs ont pu entendre Jarre donner son concert acoustique. Après une longue introduction pendant laquelle un micro-trottoir laissait transparaître le scepticisme des auditeurs potentiels à l'annonce de ce concert, Jean-Michel a fini par expliquer qu'il allait jouer trois de ses morceaux avec un orgue de barbarie, ancêtre du séquenceur. Trois versions superbement arrangées qui permettent d'affirmer que Jarre même sans synthé peut faire de la musique merveilleuse.

Le « concert » fut donné dans une ambiance de franche rigolade car il était possible de péter les plombs sans arrêter la musique. Il fut suivi de la diffusion d'une série de morceaux en version électronique « traditionnelle », ce qui n'était pas arrivé depuis longtemps à la radio...

Morceaux joués :
L'orchestre sous la pluie
Equinoxe 3 (version heavy metal)
La dernière rumba
Liste des instruments utilisés :
Orgue de barbarie

Poisson d'avril !

Pendant les derniers jours du mois de mars 1994, une bande annonce est diffusée sur l'antenne de Europe 2. Il est question d'une surprise autour de JM Jarre. Un sondage est organisé pour demander aux gens ce qu'ils pensent d'un éventuel concert acoustique du « maître de l'électricité ». Evidemment personne ne soupçonne la capacité de remise en question de Jarre qui a accepté de jouer trois musiques à l'orgue de Barbarie pour un mini concert « débranché » (voire « déjanté ») présenté par Laurent Boyer. Jarre reprend une idée qu'il avait inaugurée à Bruxelles le 24 août 1993. Ce soir là il avait interprété « Equinoxe VIII » à l'aide d'un limonaire. Le 1er avril 1994, sans poisson d'avril Jarre se prête à nouveau à cet exercice en ajoutant à Equinoxe VIII deux nouvelles reprises : Equinoxe III et Chants Magnétiques V.

Le 1er avril, il offre un poisson original aux auditeurs de la station radio Europe 2, en jouant un mini-concert acoustique (à l'orgue de barbarie !) de trois morceaux : L'orchestre sous la pluie alias Equinoxe 8 déjà entendu sous cette forme pendant sa tournée européenne, un surprenant Equinoxe 3 ironiquement sous-titré "version heavy metal", et le plus classique La dernière rumba issu de l'album Les chants magnétiques. On regrette qu'il n'existe pas de trace discographique de l'évènement et qu'il n'ait jamais été renouvelé.

11/07/2013

Jean Michel Jarre - Europe In Concert (Sevilla 1993)


Europe In Concert - 1993 (2. October 1993 - Sevilla, Spain)

Jarre embarked on his first tour in 1993. The tour, which was named "Europe in Concert", which naturally took him around most of Europe, but not Scandinavia. The idea of a tour arose around the collaboration with Swatch the previous year...they sponsored the total of sixteen concerts, the first being set on the tidal island of Mont Saint Michel, in France. Laser beams and lights were projected onto the buildings on the island and the stage was placed in front of the island itself during ebb tide. The stage and the scenery for this tour was like a miniature city skyline which Jarre carried across the continent.
During the same year Jarre released Chronologie, his first studio album in three years, and this new composition was central to the tour's repertoire. As a whole, the tour was seen by 650,000 people.

            


Special thanks to Ricardo Melo for sharing: www.jarrefan.com.br

17/05/2013

Jean Michel Jarre - Unesco Theme / Japan - * Featuring Tetsuya 'TK' Komuro* ‎-- Paris Live "Electronic Night" 199







           

Unesco Theme / Japan

Written-By -- Jean Michel Jarre*, MARC, Olivia Lafkin*, Tetsuya 'TK' Komuro*

Tracklist ▼

En Attendant Cousteau  5 :53
Together Now  5 :47
Oxygene 7  4 :53
Unesco Theme / Japan
Written-By -- Jean Michel Jarre*, MARC, Olivia Lafkin*, Tetsuya 'TK' Komuro* 5 :44
Oxygene 8 (Hani Mix) Remix -- Hani 5 :51
Paris Underground - Written-By -- MARC 6 :42
Oxygene 13  4 :38
Oxygene 8 (Sunday Club) Remix -- Sunday Club 13 :40
Oxygene 12  5 :53
Revolution, Revolutions  3 :42
Rave-Olution  4 :44
En Attendant Cousteau 4 :15

Credits▼
Composed By -- Jean Michel Jarre*, Tetsuya 'TK' Komuro* (tracks: 2, 6)
Notes▼
Live CD of the Electronic Night concert which was performed at the Eiffel Tower on 14/7/98 for the World Cup.
Part of TK 1998 Latest Works Tetsuya Komoro boxset.

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03/01/2013

Jean Michel Jarre dla "Solidarności"



Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre jest legendą muzyki elektronicznej i jednym z artystów, którzy poruszając się na tej niwie muzycznej osiągnął wielki komercyjny sukces. Syn słynnego kompozytora Maurice'a Jarre'a (autor muzyki np. do znanego w Polsce serialu "Shogun") specjalizuje się w spektakularnych koncertach, podczas których równie ważne jak muzyka są efekty wizualne. W 2004 roku francuski artysta zagrał jako pierwszy w chińskim Zakazanym Mieście w Pekinie, co zostało uwiecznione na podwójnej płycie DVD. 

26 sierpnia na terenie Stoczni Gdańskiej Jean Michel Jarre wystąpi z okazji 25-lecia powstania "Solidarności". 
Występ będzie podziwiać 100 tys. osób. Jarre przygotował na swój koncert specjalną kompozycję o roboczym tytule "Suita Gdańska", w której wykorzystał m.in. fragmenty nieoficjalnego hymnu Solidarności - piosenki "Mury" (do muzyki Luisa Llacha Grande i słów Jacka Kaczmarskiego). 
Z Jarrem wystąpią - oprócz jego zespołu muzyków - Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiej Filharmonii Bałtyckiej oraz kilkudziesięcioosobowy chór. 

"Mury" (do muzyki Luisa Llacha Grande i słów Jacka Kaczmarskiego). Z Jarrem wystąpią - oprócz jego zespołu muzyków - Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiej Filharmonii Bałtyckiej oraz kilkudziesięcioosobowy chór


            

       


(fot. Warner Music Poland) 2006

             

02/01/2013

Jean Michel Jarre - Forbidden City 2004

The Concerts in China

  • October 21 and 22, 1981 Beijing
  • October 26 thru 28, 1981 Shanghai
  • Total audience: 120,000
  • First western musician concert in post-Mao China

              


              

              

             

              


08/12/2012

The keys to my success: Jean Michel Jarre



12 January 2008

Jean Michel Jarre recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of his best-known work, the 12 million-selling Oxygène, with a ten-night run at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris.

The album, consisting entirely of electronic instrumental music, recorded at Jarre's home, was the surprise hit of 1977, producing a memorable single, Oxygène (Part IV).

In Paris last December, Jarre performed the entire work using the original equipment, including more than 50 vintage synthesizers, and he is due to bring the show to London's Royal Albert Hall this March.



It will be a relatively intimate event for Jarre, who is better known for huge, globe-straddling multimedia events.

The first was before a million people in Place de la Concorde in Paris, in 1979. The most recent was the Water For Life concert in the Sahara in 2006. Then there have been historic one-night stopovers such as the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids, the Acropolis and Tiananmen Square.

The 59-year-old French composer has had four entries in the Guinness Book Of Records for concert attendances, breaking his own total three times ? the largest being in 1997 when he performed to 3.5 million people in Moscow.

Jarre was married for 20 years to the English actress, Charlotte Rampling, before they divorced in 1998.

They have one son, David Jarre, an internationally renowned magician.


Oxygène was turned down by all the record companies. 

It was like a UFO ? it was made in the middle of the disco and punk eras and the record companies said, "What is it? No singer, no proper song titles? And, on top of that, it's French!" Even my mum asked, "Why are you giving your music the name of a gas?" Yet people talk of Oxygène now as my "masterpiece". When it became such a success, it was strange ? a very exciting period and kind of innocent. You find you have a lot of new friends around you and it's almost as if they want the success to continue more than you do.

Making my music is like being a chef


It's no coincidence that Oxygène was recorded in my kitchen in Paris.I had to find the right ingredients, bringing everything to the right temperature. don't like the preconceived idea about electronic music that it is cold, futuristic or robotic. I want my music to sound warm, human and organic. I'm not a scientist working in a laboratory ? I'm more like a painter, Jackson Pollock for example, mixing colour and light, experimenting with textures.

I'm really playing those instruments: I don't just click a mouse and sit back. 


They are not fake instruments. The beauty is that you can create the sound of the Moon, the sound of light. Nothing is repeated. It's music that breathes.

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius


All these old analogue instruments are very poetic.I have a huge emotional relationship with them. My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3. You also have the Minimoog, which is very famous, and a Dutch invention called the Eminent, which was patented in the late Sixties. The sound of Oxygène is based on the fantastic string effects of the Eminent.

To play some of these old instruments you need the Force to be with you.
 


The theramin, for example ? it's totally intuitive. It looks like a Thirties radio with two antennae ? just by moving your hands towards the antennae you control the volume and the pitch, producing this fantastic sound like a soprano vocal. Stravinsky used one, as did the Beach Boys on Good Vibrations. It's very tricky to play.

 I own some of the world's most unusual synthesizers. 

They include the ARP 2600, a huge modular synthesizer. That's the instrument Pete Townshend created The Who's Baba O'Riley on. There are only about 30 left.

Back in the Seventies we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. 


It felt as if everything was still ahead of us. Today, it is all behind us. That is not to say that my music is attached to sci-fi. I see my music as more attached to the biosphere than the stratosphere.

I collect robots. 


They're mainly Japanese, American and especially Russian ? small robots, big robots and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties. That period was all about futurism, from the art of Kandinsky to crazy guys building strange robots and sci-fi creatures, utopian-type things. In those days there were lots of dreamers about the future.I got into all that.

Going to the US or China and hearing your music on the radio is like signing your soul to the devil. 


You can start to lose your own identity when your image becomes bigger than who you actually are. There are so many temptations, so many excesses, it can kill you. America is the worst. I was voted People magazine's Man Of The Year in the Seventies, and the women? well, you have to be clear in your mind what these things mean or your brain will implode.

Pope John Paul II had big feet. 


The first thing I noticed when I met him was the size of his shoes. I thought to myself, "My God, this man has his head in the sky but his feet solidly on the ground."

I'll never forget the day of Princess Diana's funeral. 


We had been quite close friends, and on that day I was doing a concert in Moscow for 3.5 million people. I knew she was keen on one song I'd written called Souvenir Of China. So I decided to dedicate it to her and ask the audience for a minute's silence. You can imagine the scene in Moscow with more than three million noisy people, the amount of vodka, craziness everywhere? But the entire city remained silent. It was so moving that everyone started crying. The tears were running down my face so much I couldn't even start to play again. Even now, just talking about it makes me emotional.

Why do I play these big events? 


First, it's the fact that electronic instruments are not really made for live performance, so long tours are not feasible. And I became inspired by Italian opera, working with carpenters, painters, costumiers and, in my case, video artists, light-show specialists and architects. Also, because I've always considered my music to be attached to the immediate environment, I wanted to perform outdoors, to hijack one whole place for a night ? something where, as an artist, you have no second chance. At the Place de la Concorde [in 1979], one guy came up afterwards ? he had a long beard like Fidel Castro's ? and he said, "I've never seen anything like that before in my life." I thanked him and someone said, "Do you know who that was? Mick Jagger"

My favourite concert nearly didn't happen. 


I thought it was a joke when Lech Walesa phoned me to play at Gdansk in 2005. I just didn't believe him. The concert was a kind of Blade Runner experience because it was in exactly that spot that the world had changed, leading to the eventual collapse of the Soviet system.

Arthur C Clarke thought aliens would respond to my music. 


He told me, "We must do something in outer space ? perhaps a concert on the Moon." He thought it would be a good point of contact.

My favourite thing to spend money on used to be cars ? especially old British and American ones.  


I had a Bugatti, which I bought in England, an old XJ140 Jaguar and a Cadillac Eldorado, which I bought in the US. I had cars all over the world. I drove them all, including the Bugatti. I was keener, though, on the XJ140 and the Cadillac. I'd put the family in them and off we'd go. Of course, you had to stop from garage to garage, because they kept breaking down, but I didn't care.

Oxygène made me rich ? but not as rich as you might think


 Back then managers and record companies were getting too much money. Having said that, I was able to buy a large house in Paris where I built my own studio, plus a house in London.

It has been very moving playing Oxygène again. 


 In Paris I was playing to small audiences of only about 500. I love using all the old equipment.

It's been quite an experience.

                 "Oxygène: Live In Your Living Room", the 30th anniversary


      

Source: dailymail

10/10/2012

Jean Michel Jarre in China 2004

11.10.2004


Sound für Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit

Jean Michel Jarre gilt als Maestro des Synthesizer-Pops mit Hang zum Großspektakel. 1999 beschallte er die Pyramiden von Gizeh, 2001 gingen Jarre-Klänge auf die Akropolis nieder. Jetzt läutete der Megastar des Bombast-Sounds das "französische Jahr in China" ein - mit einem Konzert in der Verbotenen Stadt.

Jarre-Konzert in Peking: Sound-Bombast mit kultureller Message

1.300.000 Zuschauer verfolgten 1986 in Houston, Texas, Jean Michel Jarres Licht-, Laser- und Sound-Spektakel zu Ehren der verunglückten Challenger-Astronauten, 800.000 Menschen wohnten im selben Jahr seinem Konzert zu Ehren des Papstbesuchs in Lyon bei. Das Gedenkkonzert für den Meeresforscher Jacques-Yves Cousteau in der franzöischen Hauptstadt schaffte es sogar ins Guinness-Buch der Weltekorde: Zwei Millionen Zuschauer waren am 14. Juli 1990 im Pariser Wolkenkratzerviertel La Défense dabei.

Am vergangenen Sonntag gab sich der Großmusiker auf dem Platz des Himmlischen Friedens in Peking die Ehre. Unterstützt vom Pekinger Symphonieorchester beschallte Jarre die Verbotene Stadt und läutete mit Klassikern wie "Oxygene" das "französische Jahr in China" ein.

600 Projektoren tauchten den Tiananmen-Platz in Blau- und Orange-Töne, während Impressionen von Paris und Edgar-Degas-Gemälden über die Leinwände flimmerten. Mehr als 15.000 Menschen waren bei dem Event versammelt.


Jarre eröffnete das Konzert mit einem symbolträchtigen Duett und ließ sich von der Chinesin Cheng Lin auf einem Erhu, einem historischen Saiteninstrument, begleiten. Das letzte Stück trug den Titel des Veranstaltungsorts: "Tiananmen", jener Platz, auf dem das chinesische Militär 1989 ein Massaker verübt hatten. "Ich möchte dieses letzte Stück den Werten meines Landes widmen - Freiheit, Brüderlichkeit und Gleichheit", erklärte Jarre zum Abschluss des Konzerts.

Tatsächlich hat der Auftritt Jarres auch eine politische Funktion. Frankreichs Präsident Jacques Chirac gehört zu jenen Staatschefs, die entschieden eine Aufhebung des EU-Waffenembargos gegen China fordern. Das nach dem Massaker auf dem Platz des Himmlischen Friedens verhängte Handelsverbot entspreche "nicht länger der Realität der Dinge", zitierte die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" am vergangenen Samstag den Regierungschef. Jarres Konzert gehörte zum kulturellen Paket, das Chirac für seinen Staatsbesuch am vergangenen Samstag in China schnürte und dass die Solidarität seiner Regierung mit der asiatischen Großmacht bekräftigen soll.

 Alle Fotostrecken

Das klingt nach Völkerverständigung: Jean Michel Jarre und Violinistin Cheng Lin.
Visuelle Opulenz: Szene aus der Bühnenshow des Jarre-Konzerts in der Verbotenen Stadt am vergangenen Sonntag.
Ein Bild von einem Konzert: Jarres Musiker mit Großprojektion.

                    

25/05/2012

Jean Michel Jarre - The Making of "Water for Life": The Story Behind the Sahara Desert Concert







Product Details

  • Hardcover: 172 pages
  • Publisher: Conceptual Publising (April 20 2007)
  • Language: English
  • BUY: www.amazon
      

28/04/2012

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène Tour 1997 (Full concert)

           

Oxygène Tour

In 1997, Jarre held an indoor tour in Europe dedicated to his continuation of the Oxygène album, Oxygène 7-13, starting in Toulon, France and ending in Orléans, France. In total, 230,000 people attended the concerts.

Track listing (The track listing varied depending on concert, but these were the tracks played)

"Oxygène 7"
"Chronologie 6"
"Equinoxe 7"
"Magnetic Fields 1"
"Oxygène 6"
"Oxygène 10"
"Oxygène 4"
"Oxygène 11"
"Souvenir of China"
"Oxygène 2"
"Magnetic Fields 2"
"Oxygène 5"
"Oxygène 8"
"Oxygène 12"
"Revolutions"
"Equinoxe 4"
"Oxygène 13"

Jean Michel Jarre - Place De La Concorde 1979 (Full concert)

               
Place de la Concorde in the centre of Paris was the setting for Jean Michel Jarre's first open-air concert in 1979. Although he had previously given concerts, together with the rock bands he played with during his late teens, by comparison with his previous concerts and the conventional concerts of the time, this concert was a completely unique, innovative performance. It was accompanied by giant light projections and fireworks displays. Place de la Concorde was the first of a long series of concerts that helped to visualise Jarre's music and also break new ground for concert performances.


On July 14 1979 the ambitious show attracted an estimated audience of one million people. Jarre was alone on stage with his synthesisers, performing Oxygene and Equinoxe, and the concert was important in establishing a new standard. It also became the first of many Jarre-concerts to hijack an entire city for one night.


Track list:

1. Oxygene 1
2. Oxygene 2
3. Oxygene 3
4. Oxygene 5
5. Oxygene 6
6. Equinoxe 1
7. Equinoxe 2
8. Equinoxe 3
9. Equinoxe 4
10. Equinoxe 5
11. Equinoxe 6
12. Equinoxe 7
13. Equinoxe 8
14. Oxygene 4

Musician:
Jean Michel Jarre
Date and Place:
14 July 1979, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France

Estimated Audience:
1.500.000

29/02/2012

Jean Michel Jarre - Destination Docklands (Full Concert)


The Docklands concerts (there were two), were held at the London Docks after long negotiations and a great deal of to-ing and fro-ing on the part of the local community authorities. The Docks were to create the setting for a presentation of Jarre's album, Revolutions, an album clearly inspired by the history of the Docklands. The concerts scheduled for September finally took place in October and the weather turned out to be typically British -- rain and strong winds. Despite the weather, the concert tickets sold in record time of a few hours, for a total of 400,000 in total over the two dates.
The stage was built on a 1,000 ton floating barge which lay in the Thames, on which Jarre and his musicians, a choir and an orchestra performed. It was as though this bleak area had been transformed for two evenings into an industrial, futuristic, multimedia theatre, which united Jarre's electronic music and vision, and the drab landscape of the Docklands in perfect, psychedelic harmony.

Track list:

Part 1:Industrial Revolution
1. Industrial Revolution, Overture
2. Industrial Revolution (part 1 - 3)
3. Equinoxe 5
4. Ethnicolor

Part 2: Swinging 60's
5. Computer Weekend
6. Magnetic Fields 2
7. Oxygene 4
8. Equinoxe 7
9. London Kid (with Hank Marvin)

Part 3: The 90's
10. Rendez-Vous 3
11. Tokyo Kid
12. Revolutions
13. Souvenir of China
14. Rendez-Vous 2
15. Rendez-Vous 4

Part 4: The Finale
16. September
17. Revolutions
18. The Emigrant

Musicians:
Jean Michel Jarre
Guy Delacroix
Sylvain Durand
Christine Durand
Kudsi Erguner
Michel Geiss
Joe Hammer
Dino Lumbroso
Hank Marvin
Dominique Perrier
Francis Rimbert
Mireille Pombo
Sori Bomba (conductor September)
Bruno Rossignol (Choir conductor)
Setsuko Yamada (Dance performer)
Xavier Bellenger (Ethnical music advisor)

Date and Place:

8.-9. October 1988 - Docklands, London, England

Estimated Audience:

1.000.000, 200.000 paying visitors