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Jean Michel Jarre - Jean Michel Jarre en Concert: Houston-Lyon Audio CD

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Title: Jean Michel Jarre en Concert: Houston-Lyon
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Release Date: 1994-02-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Oxygene V 2: Ethnicolor 3: Ethnicolor (Continued) 4: Ethnicolor (Continued) 5: Ethnicolor (Continued) 6: Magnetic Fields I 7: Souvenir (Of China) 8: Equinoxe V 9: Rendez-Vous III (Laser Harp) 10: Rendez-Vous II 11: Rendez-Vous II (Continued) 12: Rendez-Vous II (Continued) 13: Rendez-Vous II (Continued) 14: Rendez-Vous II (Continued) 15: Ron's Piece 16: Rendez-Vous IV

Filho de peixe...
. . peixinho é" -- says a brazilian proverb, "the son of a fish has to be a little fish". More than that, Jean Michel is already a "big fish" for his talent and creativity!.


Odd, but great.
5 million was a grotesque understatement because it doesn't include the people watching from the free way or the park miles away (where I was) listening to the music on FM radio. For starters, I too was at this concert in Houston and I think 1. I, like others, am really dissappointed in the fact that 2 of the pieces that I would most expect to be from Houston (Rendez-Vous 6 and 4) were from Lyon. I know Jarre is a perfectionist and the drummer got a little ahead of the band for Rendez-Vous 4 in Houston. That's probably why he chose the Lyon performance, but the Houston performance had so much more energy and soul.

An unfortunate side-note. The video for this was shot by a local crew using NTSC video. The only video version of this concert that was released was converted to the European PAL system. The master tapes are missing (or reused as TV stations tend to do) so if you ever wanted an NTSC copy, it would have to be dubbed from a PAL VHS tape which had already been heavily degraded by the conversion/dubbing process. This is why there will likely never be a DVD of it. It's very unfortunate IMHO. As good as this CD is, much of the impact, particularly on the more texture based tunes, comes from the visuals which we don't have.


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This is the Jean Michel Jarre Masterpiece that all fans must have!!!! Please take the opprotunity to buy this now because when they run out of reissues then that is the end and you will not be able to find this. This is one of the best recordings and it has been very hard to find. I have been looking for over 10 years and finally found it here on Amazon. com
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Outstanding
Indeed, it was my first foray into electronic "new age" music (a terrible category for this). This was the 1st Jarre CD I ever bought. I was looking for electronic instrumental music, and, enthused by Tomita's outdoor concerts of European Classical electronically done, picked this up. It is exactly what I was looking for. Buying this CD opened up whole new worlds for me (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and their many imitators and followers). Saying that though does a disservice to this recording, as it's a good one itself. Recorded in Houston and Lyon, Jarre starts off with an invigorating snippet of "Oxygene V", which fades into "Ethnicolor", an avant garde piece heavily reliant on sampling technology. The upbeat and catchy "Chants Magnetiques I" and "Eqiunoxe V" are seperated by the more ambient "Souvenir De Chine", which also uses samples, but not as the backbone. "Blessing" comes from the Pope, and then it's the real meat of the show, Jarre's latest work (at the time) "Rendez-Vous". Part III (subtitled "Laser Harp") is an experimental piece, followed by the 11 minute Part II (highlighted by "the Eagle has landed" sample in the middle). "Ron's Piece" wouldn't be out of place on Vangelis's "The City", as Jarre uses electronics in the background, while Kirk Whalum plays sax over that. A soft little piece, the sax part for the album version was intended to be played aboard the ill fated "Challenger" shuttle mission. We close with perhaps Jarre's most famous piece. Rendez-Vous IV is an anthem that has appeared on at least 5 Jarre albums that I can think of, and is a splendid way to close the show. I bought this 7 years ago now, and I still give it 5 stars. At 48 minutes, it's not too long, but it's not so short that it will leave you disappointed. Wanting more maybe.


Magnificent.

It comprises most of his best earlier songs and includes compositions made exclusively for the Houston City 250th anniversary and the 25th of the NASA. This is an outstanding compilation of two mega-concerts made by this french musician and his band.
The Opera of Lyon orchestra sounds powerful and accurate conducted by Jarre himself. And the choir gives that celestial taste to some of the tracks, particularly the brilliant and quasi-Wagnerian Rendez-vous II.
Portions of radio and TV media describing the previous moments of the concert were included, just as in ¨The Concerts in China¨ some years before. That seems to be Mr. Jarre's trademark on live recordings.
Certainly this audio-only recording do not transmit the heart and soul of what that concerts were -I wish there would be a DVD release of them- but at least we have an extraordinary sample of the splendorous music those nights sounded.


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