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JEAN MICHEL JARRE:
'AERO' - NEW ALBUM
Album
Title: 'AERO: ANTHOLOGY OF ELECTRONIC REVISITED
ORIGINALS'
Album Format: CD (PCM Stereo) & DVD (Dolby Digital
PCM Stereo/Dolby Digital 5.1/Dolby Digital DTS 5.1/DVD-A Advanced Resolution
24Bit/96Khz)
Number Of Tracks: 14 Tracks + 1 Hidden Bonus Track
(Includes 11 Scenes)
Total Running Time: 73 Minutes 42 Seconds
Label: Warner Music France/East West Records
Catalogue Number: 2564 61851-2
Official Web-Site:
www.jeanmicheljarre.com
JEAN
MICHEL JARRE: 'AERO' - TRACKLISTING
Aero
Opening (0'16)
Scene 1 (0'33)
Oxygene 2 (7'12)
Scene 2 (0'31)
Aero (3'09)
Equinoxe 8 (Band In The Rain) (1'26)
Oxygene 4 (4'16)
Scene 3 (0'32)
Souvenir Of China (4'13)
Scene 4 (0'50)
Aerology (3'02)
Scene 5 (0'37)
Equinoxe 3 (6'08)
Scene 6 (0'26)
Equinoxe 4 (5'40)
Scene 7 (1'06)
Last Rendez-Vous (Ron's Piece) (4'41)
Scene 8 (0'27)
Zoolookology (3'34)
Scene 9 (0'12)
Aerozone (4'51)
Scene 10 (0'16)
Magnetic Fields 1 (5'42)
Scene 11 (0'17)
Chronology 6 (4'54)
Rendez-Vous 4
(Live Version) (Hidden
Bonus Track)
(7'35)
JEAN MICHEL
JARRE: 'AERO' - WHERE TO BUY?
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JEAN
MICHEL JARRE: 'AERO' - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q:
Rumour has it there's a new Jean Michel Jarre album out soon?
JMJ:
Yes. It is called 'AERO', and it will change the way you listen
to music.
Q: That's a big claim, but then your new
album is the first of its kind.
JMJ:
Absolutely! It is the world's first music album to be fully constructed
in 5.1 surround sound.
Q: What do you mean by 'constructed'?
JMJ:
Whereas a small number of CDs currently exist that have been mastered
for surround sound, these merely 'spread' the stereo recordings around
the five speakers. With 'AERO', I have literally taken apart some of my
most well known music and 'reconstructed' it, note for note, so that the
individual sounds come at you from all five directions.
Q: What is the experience of listening to
'AERO'?
JMJ: You must ask someone else - I'm bias!
But I think you'll agree, it's incredible! 'AERO' places the listener
'inside' the music, rather than outside the traditional, flat 'wall' of
stereo that we typically experience. It immerses you, in the way that
first listening to music on headphones did, although in 360° surround
sound. By moving from 2 channel (Stereo) to 5.1 channel ('AERO'), it literally
takes the music into a whole new dimension. It's like you're standing
in an audio landscape rather than just looking at a picture.
Q: Why has no-one attempted this before?
JMJ: For two reasons I think. Firstly, because
of the technical difficulties. Recording music for five separate channels
is a serious challenge! I was unable to find a sound engineer anywhere
on the planet who could help. So in the end I did it myself. Secondly,
until recently not enough people owned a surround sound system. Now, there
are over 25 million households across Europe with 5.1 DVD home cinema.
Q: What kind of a music system do you need
to listen to this album?
JMJ: You don't have to spend a fortune to
really appreciate 'AERO'. On a 400 Euros home cinema system it'll blow
you away. But for those without access to DVD and 5.1 home cinema, the
album also includes a normal CD recorded in SuperSurround - this emulates
the 'AERO' experience through just two speakers.
Q: 'AERO' is largely an anthology of some
of your most famous work. Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields…How does
it change those pieces that fans know so well?
JMJ: It brings
the listener closer to the original vision I had in my head when I first
recorded them - the 'soundscapes' that I have always imagined but, until
now, I haven't been able to fully convey. The essential score of the tracks
has not been changed, but the experience of hearing them is unlike anything
you've heard before.
Q: Your anthology includes 3 new tracks.
One of these, 'AERO'logy, is the first single. What exactly is ''AERO'logy'?
JMJ: Literally,
it means 'the study of atmosphere above ground'. If you think of Stereo
as being two dimensional or 'flat' (which essentially it is) 'AERO'logy
is the exploration of this 3-dimensional ''AERO'space' that is created
by surround sound. This is reflected in the website and even the album
packaging, both of which are a study of 3-dimensional form.
Q: Will there be multimedia content on the
DVD album?
JMJ: Just a
girl's pair of beautiful eyes, gazing out at you and reacting emotionally
to the music...for the entire 76 minutes of the album. The Eyes of 'AERO'
belong to Anne Parillaud and were directed by me. They were recorded in
high-definition cinemascope and shot in a single 76-minute take. The effect
is quite mesmerising. Another world first for DVD, I think!
Q: Just a pair of eyes?
JMJ: It was
tempting to produce an amazing visual extravaganza for the DVD but that
would miss the point. 'AERO' is all about the audio experience - it's
a sound revolution. When you hear this album in full surround sound, you'll
know why. Pictures cannot describe it.
Q: Whose eyes are those on the album cover?
JMJ: Mine! Peering
into your world! Just as, by listening to 'AERO', you are peering into
mine.
Q: Are you planning to perform this album
live in 5.1 surround sound?
JMJ: Absolutely.
I'll be performing a major concert in Beijing in October. 2004 sees a
cultural exchange between the French and the Chinese and I was invited
to perform there. For the Beijing concert, we're constructing a huge wall
of screens around the audience - celebrating the evolution of music to
surround sound. Next year, I'll be doing a 5.1 tour which will lead to
a massive concert…but that location is a secret for now.
Q: Where can people hear a sample of 'AERO'?
JMJ: On the
website, you can download a number of 5.1 samples from 'AERO', and even
a simulation of the surround sound effect through stereo speakers. There's
also an exclusive, hidden preview of the 3 new tracks… but you'll have
to find it! Of course, nothing will match hearing it played live on 20ft
high outdoor speakers!
Q: Tell us more about the 'AERO' website.
JMJ: It goes
live in August - www.jeanmicheljarre.com.
Like the album itself, the entire experience is a journey into this liberating,
3D ''AERO'space' that is created by surround sound. You are greeted by
the Voice of 'AERO' and you can navigate in any direction, to discover
samples from the new album, technology demos, news, fan reports and even
a unique 5-dimensional 'AERO' game. You can also register online as an
''AERO'naut' for exclusive email updates, invitations to promotional events,
competitions to win a 5.1 multi-media system and advance ordering - so
you can be among the very first people to own the album and 'go 'AERO''.
Q: Tell us more about this 5-dimensional
'AERO' game?
JMJ: It's a
variant of the classic bat and ball game, Pong, only this time the player
is surrounded by balls coming at you from five directions. Your high scores
can be submitted to the www.jeanmicheljarre.com
website for the chance to win hundreds of prizes ranging from exclusive
downloads to VIP tickets to the huge 'AERO' concert in Beijing. As new
versions of the game are released, players will be able to join each other
online…defending together, back-to-back, against 'AERO' in full 3D!
Q: Just how significant is 'AERO' for the
future of music?
JMJ: I think
the importance of this move beyond Stereo is impossible to overstate.
The possibilities are huge…it invites us to rethink the way we write music.
Instead of asking ourselves what note do we play and how loud, now we
ask ourselves: 'what direction should this note come from? It's fair to
say that 'AERO' represents the next revolutionary step in recorded sound
that begun as Mono, became Stereo…and is now 'AERO'. Recording this album
has been an amazingly liberating experience, in terms of exploring the
sheer freedom of surround sound, and I'm hoping it will inspire composers,
and listeners, everywhere.
Q: So is 5.1 surround sound the future of
music?
JMJ: No, it's
just the beginning! Already I am working on/have plans for 6.1 etc…I envisage
a time when the listener is 'cocooned' in sound - from above and below
- an audio virtual reality. I'd love to do that now, but such music will
have to wait for people to have the right equipment!
Q: News of 'AERO' first circulated in Autumn
of last year. Your fans have waited some time.
JMJ: It'll be
worth it.
JARRE
UK Would Like To Thank Aero Productions, Warner Music France, Warner Music
Denmark, Claus Lundholm (www.jarrelive.com),
JARRE.NET (www.jarre.net),
Jesper Andsbjerg & Jean-Michel Szulew (Jote) For This Information.
Web-Master: Duncan
M G Walls 'Dunkie' (ICQ: 114076586)
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