Showing posts with label 1988. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1988. Show all posts
21/07/2014
Jean Michel Jarre - Revolutions (Extended Remix)
►Revolutions (Extended Mix) 1988
►Engineer [Sound] -- Goh Hotoda
►Mixed By -- Francis Dreyfus, François Kevorkian
►Credits
Art Direction - Mark Fisher
Composed By, Producer - Jean Michel Jarre
►Notes
Remixed from the album 'Revolutions'
Track 1 mixed at Axis Studios, New York.
Track 2 mixed at Studio Davout, Paris.
Track 3 mixed at Croissy Studio, France.
►Intersong Music Ltd.
►℗1988 Disques Dreyfus Paris
►Original sound recording made by Disques Dreyfus Paris
►Marketed and distributed in the UK by Polydor Ltd.
09/10/2013
Today is the 25th anniversary of one of Jean-Michel's finest and most memorable concerts: the first Destination Docklands concert!
Event: Destination Docklands
When: Saturday/Sunday, October 8/9, 1988
Where: Royal Victoria Dock, London Docklands, Newham, London, England
Destination Docklands was a concert held by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the Royal Victoria Docks, Docklands, London on Saturday October 8 and Sunday October 9, 1988, to coincide with the release of Jarre's new album Revolutions. The concerts were attended by 200,000 people (not including the people who watched the concert from the nearby streets and households) and the October 8 show was broadcast simultaneously on BBC Radio One, featuring concert commentary by DJ Simon Bates - including his trademark colourful descriptions of what was a night of horrendous weather, which threatened to severely hamper the performance.
Accompanied by heavy wind, rain and fireworks, the concert also featured The Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin who joined Jarre on the tracks "London Kid" and "Fourth Rendez-Vous". A live album and a VHS were released afterwards, however fans who attended the concerts have been quoted saying that the VHS release failed to capture the grandure and spirit of the event.
The stage area, viewed from the audience
The grandstands for the audience (surrounding a standing-room area) lined the North side of the dock. The warehouses on the South side of the dock, by then mostly empty, were painted white to provide enormous backdrops for projected images, along with a number of large scaffolding installations in between, matching the height of the warehouses. The stage floated in the middle of the dock and the concert was accompanied by the musician's trademark breathtaking firework and searchlight show. The original concept was to have the floating stage traverse up and down the Docks, providing a view of the stage to the audience on the North Bank - however, strong winds and prevailing rain prevented this from occurring and the stage stayed anchored for the duration of the concerts [although this is contested](indeed, wind almost caused one of the hung scaffolding backdrops to be torn from its mountings after the October 8 show with repairs having to be undertaken before the following night's performance).
09/06/2013
Jean-Michel Jarre – Revolutions (1988)
Jean-Michel Jarre – Revolutions
This record is dedicated to all the children of the revolution;
To the children of the industrial revolution,
To those of the 1960's and the computer age,
To the children of emigrants, And to those of Dulcie September.
Track 6. September: A tribute to Dulcie September, one of the many South
African victims dedicated to the fight against apartheid. She was
assassinated in Paris on 29th March 1988.
There will only ever be one revolution - The revolution that
the children carry within them.
08/04/2013
Jean Michel Jarre - Industrial Revolution Part 2 & 3
Revolutions is the sixth overall studio album by Jean Michel Jarre, first released in 1988. The album spans several genres, including symphonic industrial, Arabian inspired, light guitar pop and ethnic electro jazz. The album reached number #2 in the UK charts, Jarre's best chart position since Oxygène. The Destination Docklands concert in London coincided with the release of the album.
One of the definitions of the word "Revolutions" is that it is a change of ideals and practices, this should always be in the forefront of your mind when listening to the album because it not only describes the albums musical story, it describes the story of the musical change made by jmj from light hits such as oxygene/equinox to revolution.
There are two versions of the album, each containing a different version of the track "Revolutions". On the original release, the introduction to the tune is played on a Turkish flute, whereas the later reissue of the album uses an Arabian string orchestra for the introduction. This version also has a different vocal accompaniment, as sung by an Arabian vocalist.[citation needed] "Revolutions" contains reworked samples of an unpublished composition by Turkish Kudsi Erguner, which Jarre had acquired from ethnologist Xavier Bellenger. Erguner took his case to court and won a modest indemnity. Jarre removed the ney flute part from new releases of the record and from live performances.
The song "London Kid" was a collaboration with Hank Marvin. Hank was living in Perth, Australia at the time and he and Jean Michel composed the song with each other over the phone.
As noted in the liner notes, the track "September" is named after and dedicated to South African ANC activist Dulcie September, who was assassinated in Paris on 29 March 1988.
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