Charlotte Rampling whit David Jarre

 

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Three generations of family Jarre - Match TV (2000)

          A documentary which shows three generations of family Jarre.


         

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Jean Michel André Jarre: en.wikipedia.org
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David Jarre - Magicien Illusioniste

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Three generations of family JARRE...

  

Maurice-Alexis Jarre  was a French composer and conductor.
Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Other notable scores include The Train (1964), Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976), Witness (1985) and Ghost (1990).
Jarre was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Three of his compositions spent a total of 42 weeks on the UK singles chart; the biggest hit was "Somewhere My Love" (to his tune "Lara's Theme", with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) by the Michael Sammes Singers, which reached Number 14 in 1966 and spent 38 weeks on the chart.
Jarre was a three time Academy Award winner, for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He was Oscar nominated a total of eight times.


Maurice Jarre Discography: discogs.com


His son is the electronic composer Jean Michel Jarre.

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.

Multifaceted artist, not only recording artist, creator and performer of unique outdoor concerts, Jean Michel Jarre is also composer and lyricist of mile-stone hits in his native France and composer of international movie soundtracks. He is also the first composer to introduce electronic music into the sanctuary of the Paris Opera House, with the ballet AOR in 1971. Between 1968 and 1972, after having worked with Pierre Schaeffer in the GRM (Group for Musical Research), he also composes and produces a series of electronic music pieces like The Cage, Deserted Palace…
His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as a musician.

As of 2004 Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums. He was the first Western musician to be allowed to perform in the People's Republic of China, and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event.

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His son is the  David Jarre

Born in 1977, son of British actress Charlotte Rampling and French musician Jean-Michel Jarre. After a 10 years career as a magician, David Jarre is now a member of the duet The Two / David Jarre and Ara Starck .

In Paris, both Starck and Jarre are considered celebrities by birth.

Starck is the daughter of modernist designer Philippe Starck who has crafted chairs with stiletto heels and orange juicers that seem to defy gravity.

There is a lot of 60s British folk and acoustic pop influences in the music of “The Two” : Donovan, Nick Drake and a bit of Vashti Bunyan.

Starck and Jarre are darlings in France, but they are hoping to find the same sort of love in the US.


Official: thetwomusic.com

          

The Two = Great Voices

Seven years ago Ara Starck met David Jarre in Paris. She was a painter, he was a magician. She was just back from New York where she had been experimenting with a new pictorial approach culminating in a series of “lenticular" portraits. He had just spent the last six years of his life as a magician travelling the world, paying his way with conjuring tricks. Their meeting produced magic of another kind, crystallised today in The Two, a duo that weaves together its members' atypical career paths, and melds their singularities in a shared intimacy.

David started playing guitar in his early teens, influenced by contempory artists like Pearl Jam or Jeff Buckley, and at the same time, he developed a fascination for magic and made it his hobby and later his job. Ara has always sung. However, painting was her first creative medium. After studying at the Paris Beaux Arts, Ara spent eight years in London. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, from which she graduated in 2002. Influenced by El Greco and the strange world of video artist Matthew Barney, Ara nonetheless acknowledges that music is still her main source of inspiration. “I have always approached painting not so much through drawing but through texture and matter, and for me the voices of Marianne Faithfull or Lou Reed are inspiring pictorially as much as musically".

The starting point for The Two was the song I Wanna Be With You Again. “when I was recording the demo I realized that the song should be a duo and knew Ara's voice would be perfect for it". From then on they decided to work together on more songs. At the start of 2009, they took their demos to Wagram label, which signed The Two. From June to December, Ara and David shut themselves away from the world, fine-tuning a work that involved no other musicians and no producer. David explored all the engineering possibilities of the studio, including mixing, eager and thirsty to learn all the different steps of the recording process. Ara, meanwhile, was singing and penning the lyrics - In My Head, Piece of You and Coma Was Not Her Name - and David set them to music.

On their debut album, Ara and David are seemingly rediscovering the magic of uncluttered melody, primary sound colours and simple words, all underlined with strength and elegance by their vocal harmony. As though improvised, The Two's music speaks with a rare natural voice. The music feels like an invitation to dream with them in their own secret garden. All the songs are very direct – acoustic or electric guitar, bass, drums – with a sprinkling of piano (Close To Me), mellotron washes (Piece of You, Hold My Heart), or heady electric guitar solos (Everyday, In My Head). Each song has the quality of an enchanting rough sketch on which the voices of Ara and David imprint their singular charm, reflecting a shared melancholy and solitude. Whether they choose to sing in unison, as on I'm 22, or in Q&A as in Close To Me, the songs tell the story of two people sharing a fascinating complicity, rich with a thousand affinities and an equal dose of turbulence.

 

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The Two / david Jarre and Ara Starck

Changez d'Air 2011

The Two live at Brussels Summer Festival, 20 August 2011

Parisian Pop Duo The Two Ready for First U.S. Tour

By Alexandra Steigrad

June 14, 2011

On a late spring day in the penthouse of the Cooper Square Hotel in Manhattan, Ara Starck pushes back the strands of her fiery red, and newly dyed, mane and flashes her tongue at her lanky bandmate, David Jarre, who grins in return.

Better known in their native Paris as The Two, a primarily acoustic pop duo that has risen to some prominence after the October release of their self-titled debut, the pair are sitting for a portrait ahead of their first U.S. tour. The group began working together seven years ago, when Starck, who is originally a painter, asked Jarre to create a soundtrack for her art exhibition.

“I knew Ara had a great voice because she was always singing Edith Piaf,” says Jarre before reconsidering the Gallic stereotype. “It wasn’t like she was singing Piaf and painting while wearing a beret with a baguette under her arm.”

“Well, it was almost like that,” shoots back Starck, before explaining that music has always inspired her art.

The pair gained traction in France after one of their songs was featured in a short film presented at the Césars in 2009. Despite being sung in English, their debut has garnered further attention in The Two’s homeland, where it’s actually more beneficial to sing in French thanks to a law that requires that 40 percent of all music played on the radio be sung in the native language. Although they converse with each other in French, the duo understands the universal marketability of English. They recently performed at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge and at the Cooper Square Hotel, and will play at Hiro Ballroom on June 22.

A magician and classically trained flutist, Jarre played most of the instruments on the album, and also wrote and composed most of the songs. While both sing, it’s Starck’s voice that lifts the tracks.

Both in their early 30s, the tandem’s rise has been quick, and arguably not coincidental. Starck is the daughter of prolific product designer Philippe Starck. Jarre’s late grandfather (Maurice) and father (Jean-Michel) are renowned French composers, and his mother is English actress Charlotte Rampling. Although they don’t like to talk about their families, perhaps for fear of being construed as benefactors of nepotism, they admit their backgrounds have helped with connections.

“I’m not an accountant. I’m not a lawyer, that’s for sure. If you’ve been brought up in a creative environment, you’ll probably end up in a creative environment,” Starck says, then turns to a reticent Jarre. “His grandfather, father and now he is a musician. It’s a legacy in a way. I find it beautiful.”

"The Two" Ara Starck et David Jarre

"The two", groupe composé d'Ara Starck et de David Jarre, est l’invité de Pascale Clark dans Comme on nous parle sur France Inter (9h - 4 janvier 2011)

"The Two" Ara Starck et David Jarre by franceinter

The Two, la musique en double mixte- David JARRE

publié le 24/09/2011
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The Two, deux artistes mais une seule voix pour créer. Le groupe a joué de ses cordes sensibles sur la scène éphémère du Moselle Open de tennis. NOTRE INTERVIEW EN VIDÉO ET DEUX TITRES EN LIVE.

Pourquoi un magicien et un peintre décident-ils, un jour, de faire la musique ensemble ?

David JARRE : « Nous nous sommes rencontrés, il y a sept ans, dans une soirée à Paris. Mais le groupe, lui, n’a que deux ans. Je suis magicien mais je fais de la musique depuis que je suis tout petit. Ara est peintre mais elle chante également depuis très longtemps ».

Pourquoi parlez-vous de The Two, non pas comme d’un duo, mais comme d’un groupe ?

Ara STARCK : « On a, l’un et l’autre, des personnalités très fortes. Mais quand on se retrouve, on est en symbiose sans pour autant oublier qui on est. David est multi-instrumentiste, il m’arrive de chanter seule. David peut, lui aussi, interpréter des titres en solo ».

D. J. : « Eurythmics n’est, pour moi, pas un duo mais un groupe. Nous avons réalisé notre premier album à la maison. Des textes au mixage, de la musique à notre page Facebook ou à la réalisation de nos clips, nous nous impliquons dans toutes les phases de la création ».

Vous avez d’ailleurs grandi dans un environnement très créatif (N.D.L.R. Jean-Michel Jarre est le père de David, Philippe Starck est celui d’Ara)…

A. S: « J’ai d’abord connu David en tant que magicien. Et j’ai très vite compris que la musique était quelque chose de viscéral et vital pour lui ».

D. J. :« Nous avons évidemment baigné, elle et moi, dans un univers très riche et stimulant. On a conservé de cette enfance cette curiosité et cette envie de créer. Notre rencontre a été une évidence, elle est l’essence même de The Two. Nous nous sommes révélés l’un à l’autre. Elle a été comme une libération pour moi. On s’est alors enfin permis d’écrire des chansons puis de faire de la scène ».
Recueilli par Paul-Marie PERNET.



The Two, la musique en double mixte by republicain-lorrain


 

The Two, deux artistes, Ara Starck et David Jarre, mais une voix pour créer et s'exprimer sur scène. Le groupe a joué de ses cordes sensibles sur la scène éphémère du Moselle Open de tennis, à Metz. Notre entretien avec deux titres, en bonus, en live.

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Ara Starck and David Jarre of the Two.

When they met in Paris she called herself a painter and he called himself a magician. She had just come from New York and was working on a series of portraits. He’d been touring the south of France doing a show of tricks with coins, cards and cigarettes. They dated and they broke up and then they started the band, the Two.


She is the striking Ara Starck (daughter of the famous designer, Philippe) and he is the dashing David Jarre (son of the French composer, Jean Michel, and the actress Charlotte Rampling).

Their self-titled debut album was released last year in Paris, to rave reviews. I met Stark and Jarre on the balcony of their penthouse suite in the Cooper Square Hotel in Manhattan on a windy June afternoon. Dressed in all black — he in skinny jeans, she in her signature tutu and biker boots — they were smoking Gauloises and looking down on East Sixth Street from their nearly empty room, 21 stories above.

That night, they were to give a concert for a select group of New York music executives and magazine editors. “We’re really excited to play tonight,” says the 33-year-old Starck of their first showcase in the States. “It’s going to be the essence of the Two.”

Jarre’s guitar is as smooth as any familiar rock ‘n’ roll riff, but it’s Starck’s raspy, untrained voice that gives their music its magnetism. “Ara was always singing while washing her paint brushes,” Jarre says. “It came out so easily for her.” Like many French pop bands they sing in English. “We just want to communicate with people as best as we can,” Starck says.

The intimate show in New York that June was met with a heartfelt ovation, despite a few malfunctions and one false start (nothing Starck couldn’t charm her way out of).

Shortly after, they were asked to play Stateside again, only this time on a slightly bigger stage — at 2011’s CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival. See them live on Oct. 17 at the Cooper Square Hotel and on Oct. 19 at the Hiro Ballroom in New York. But for now, watch the debut of the new video for their trippy dreamlike song “In My Head” here.

French Band ‘The Two’ Stars Ara Starck and David Jarre

February 8, 2012

For the Global Hit we are featuring Ara Starck and David Jarre, members of a French band called “The Two.”

In Paris, both Starck and Jarre are considered celebrities by birth.
Jarre’s father is French composer Jean Michel Jarre whose albums of electronica in the 70s and 80s became quite popular.
Starck is the daughter of modernist designer Philippe Starck who has crafted chairs with stiletto heels and orange juicers that seem to defy gravity.
There is a lot of 60s British folk and acoustic pop influences in the music of “The Two” : Donovan, Nick Drake and a bit of Vashti Bunyan.
Starck and Jarre are darlings in France, but they are hoping to find the same sort of love in the US.

 

           
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